Nitrogen Oxide Emission, Economic Growth and Urbanization in China: a Spatial Econometric Analysis

5th Annual International Conference on Material Science and Environmental Engineering

材料科学;生态环境科学

Zhou, Zhimin^1 ; Zhou, Yanli^2 ; Ge, Xiangyu^1

School of Stats. and Maths., Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China^1

School of Finance, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China^2

关键词: Analysis techniques;    Econometric analysis;    Economic development;    Environmental Kuznets curves;    Nitrogen oxide emissions;    Spatial dependence;    Spatial effect;    Urbanization;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/301/1/012126/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/301/1/012126

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This research studies the nexus of nitrogen oxide emissions and economic development/urbanization. Under the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis, we apply the analysis technique of spatial panel data in the STIRPAT framework, and thus obtain the estimated impacts of income/urbanization on nitrogen oxide emission systematically. The empirical findings suggest that spatial dependence on nitrogen oxide emission distribution exist at provincial level, and the inverse N-shape EKC describes both income-nitrogen oxide and urbanization-nitrogen oxide nexuses. In addition, some well-directed policy advices are made to reduce the nitrogen oxide emission in future.