Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data
Ambient air pollution is an important environmental problem that impacts the health and sustainable development of human beings. Many measures have been taken by governments to decrease air pollution. This paper focuses on whether government investment has a positive effect on air quality. Based on...
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| description | Ambient air pollution is an important environmental problem that impacts the health and sustainable development of human beings. Many measures have been taken by governments to decrease air pollution. This paper focuses on whether government investment has a positive effect on air quality. Based on China’s environmental statistics from 2003 to 2020, the Spatiotemporal Weighted Regression Model is used to observe the spatiotemporal correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality in different provinces in China, finding that there is a negative time-space correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality. In addition, environmental governance investment will not immediately improve air quality, and air pollution has the characteristics of spatial overflow that the pollution between regions affect each other. Then, to further research governments how to deal with environmental protection, configuration analysis has been used, and finds out four high-performance paths for environmental governance of China’s provinces. At the end of this research, we put forward four suggestions for air protection. Firstly, government should formulate long-term air governance policies. Secondly, government environmental governance of air pollution should pay attention to the cooperativity of environmental governance between regions. Thirdly, the third sectors, companies and the public should be encouraged in air protection. Fourthly, government should build a whole-process air governance strategy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b46cf632d4274d3ea220ee938a1d88c82022-12-22T04:30:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2022-09-011010.3389/fenvs.2022.977036977036Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel dataZhendong Wu0Chengmeng Zhang1Yang Li2Chen Xu3Yang Wang4Gong Chen5School of Law, Humanities and Sociology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, ChinaInstitute of Population Research, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaInstitute of Population Research, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Institute of Aerospace Information, Defense Technology Academy of CASIC, Beijing, ChinaInstitute of Population Research, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaInstitute of Population Research, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaAmbient air pollution is an important environmental problem that impacts the health and sustainable development of human beings. Many measures have been taken by governments to decrease air pollution. This paper focuses on whether government investment has a positive effect on air quality. Based on China’s environmental statistics from 2003 to 2020, the Spatiotemporal Weighted Regression Model is used to observe the spatiotemporal correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality in different provinces in China, finding that there is a negative time-space correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality. In addition, environmental governance investment will not immediately improve air quality, and air pollution has the characteristics of spatial overflow that the pollution between regions affect each other. Then, to further research governments how to deal with environmental protection, configuration analysis has been used, and finds out four high-performance paths for environmental governance of China’s provinces. At the end of this research, we put forward four suggestions for air protection. Firstly, government should formulate long-term air governance policies. Secondly, government environmental governance of air pollution should pay attention to the cooperativity of environmental governance between regions. Thirdly, the third sectors, companies and the public should be encouraged in air protection. Fourthly, government should build a whole-process air governance strategy.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.977036/fullenvironmental governanceESGspatiotemporal analysisgovernment investmentChinaair quality |
| spellingShingle | Zhendong Wu Chengmeng Zhang Yang Li Chen Xu Yang Wang Gong Chen Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data Frontiers in Environmental Science environmental governance ESG spatiotemporal analysis government investment China air quality |
| title | Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data |
| title_full | Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data |
| title_fullStr | Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data |
| title_short | Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data |
| title_sort | environmental governance investment and air quality based on china s provincial panel data |
| topic | environmental governance ESG spatiotemporal analysis government investment China air quality |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.977036/full |
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