{"title":"Impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land","authors":"Weixiang Xu , Jiaxin Guo , Jianping Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107539","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital governance has become a key means of improving the quality of urban governance, particularly the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Then, using panel data from 284 cities and exploiting the implementation of the ‘National Pilot for Information Benefiting the People’ policy, this study uses a double machine learning model to explore the impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land and underlying pathways. The results show that digital governance can significantly improve the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Moreover, this conclusion holds under several robustness and instrumental variable tests. Next, the results of the indirect effects test show that industrial specialisation agglomeration and entrepreneurial activity are the paths through which digital governance improves the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Finally, environmental concerns can positively regulate the impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17933,"journal":{"name":"Land Use Policy","volume":"153 ","pages":"Article 107539"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Land Use Policy","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837725000730","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Digital governance has become a key means of improving the quality of urban governance, particularly the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Then, using panel data from 284 cities and exploiting the implementation of the ‘National Pilot for Information Benefiting the People’ policy, this study uses a double machine learning model to explore the impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land and underlying pathways. The results show that digital governance can significantly improve the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Moreover, this conclusion holds under several robustness and instrumental variable tests. Next, the results of the indirect effects test show that industrial specialisation agglomeration and entrepreneurial activity are the paths through which digital governance improves the green utilization efficiency of urban land. Finally, environmental concerns can positively regulate the impact of digital governance on the green utilization efficiency of urban land.
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Land Use Policy is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the social, economic, political, legal, physical and planning aspects of urban and rural land use.
Land Use Policy examines issues in geography, agriculture, forestry, irrigation, environmental conservation, housing, urban development and transport in both developed and developing countries through major refereed articles and shorter viewpoint pieces.