The Mediating Role of Public Health between Environmental Policy Tools and Economic Development

Energies

Hui Xu¹  Wei Pan²  Meng Xin³  Wan-Qiang Dai⁴  Wu-Lin Pan⁴  Ge Huang⁴  Cheng Hu⁴ 

[1] Dong Fureng Institute of Economic and Social Development, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China;School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China;School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;

关键词: environmental regulation;    sustainability;    policy tool;    public health;    economic development;    mediation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/en15030835

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Environmental pollution damages public health and affects economic development. Environmental regulation is the main way for the government to solve environmental pollution. So what type of environmental regulation works better for public health and economic development? Can environmental regulation have an influence on economic development through public health? To solve these problems, this research uses China’s provincial panel data from 2013 to 2017 to divide environmental regulation into command-control policy tools and economic incentive policy tools and uses the mediating effect model to examine the relationship among environmental regulation, public health and economic development. The results show that: (1) There is a positive correlation between economic incentive policy tools and economic development; while no significant relationship between command-control policy tools and economic development is founded; (2) The relationship between command-control policy tools and public health is not significant, while the relationship between economic incentive policy tools and public health is positive; (3) Public health does not play a mediating role between command-control policy tools and economic development but plays a partial mediating role between economic incentive policy tools and economic development. Therefore, the government should strengthen the use of economic incentive policy tools to promote public health and sustainable economic development.

【 授权许可】

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