The impact of Income Gap on Environmental Pollution: empirical evidence from China's energy producing regions

International Conference on Manufacturing Technology, Materials and Chemical Engineering

材料科学;化学工业

Chen, Min^1

Xi'An University of Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi

710054, China^1

关键词: Environmental governances;    Environmental Kuznets curves;    Environmental pollutions;    Environmental products;    Environmental quality;    Income distribution;    Policy suggestions;    Time-series data;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/592/1/012201/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/592/1/012201

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Previous studies have suggested that the widening of the income distribution gap usually leads to the delay of the turning point of the environmental Kuznets curve. As far as an energy producing area in the western region is concerned, this paper argues that the rich have a strong ability to pay for the cost of mobility. This gap in income distribution leads the rich to emigrate to areas of higher environmental quality to reduce their demand for environmental governance in the region. At the level, in the case of the total supply of environmental governance, the lower demand for environmental governance in the region will lead to the lack of environmental governance and the deterioration of environmental quality in the region. This paper proves the above point by establishing a two-region spatial flow model, and the test results of time series data of environmental governance investment in northern Shaanxi also support this conclusion.Therefore, from the perspective of rich immigrants, this paper expounds the internal mechanism that the widening income distribution gap will lead to the decline of environmental quality in the region. Finally, some policy suggestions are put forward, such as raising the tax rate of resources and environment. Or reducing the tax rate of individual income, combining the principle that who pollutes and governs with the principle of using environmental products and who pays.