Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2258276
Sofie Joosse, Martin Westin, Fanny Möckel, Holly Keasey, Sönke Lorenzen
In the last decade, storytelling has been popularised as a method for societal sustainability transformations. With this growing popularity, there has also been a rapid increase in those identifying as storytellers. Perhaps because storytelling for sustainability has an innocent ring to it, it has not yet been studied from a power perspective. However, as it is fast-spreading and has explicit change purposes, it is important to clarify assumptions about knowledge, power and change. This article offers a first step towards understanding and evaluating the wide variety of applications behind the label of storytelling for sustainability. We perform a frame analysis of how storytellers describe their storytelling for sustainability. Our findings demonstrate that the label of storytelling for sustainability encompasses fundamentally different ideas about whose knowledge counts. The article raises critical questions that can help assess the legitimacy and appropriateness of different applications of storytelling for sustainability.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2265548
Malte Rödl, Jutta Haider, Sofie Joosse
Social media and other platforms have become an essential part of outdoor activities as they influence how nature is experienced and engaged with, but also what good nature is seen as. In this article, we explore how social understandings of nature and digital technologies are mutually performed. Using the empirical case of nature selfies—an archetype of imagery on social media platforms—posted on Instagram, Facebook, and Tripadvisor, and a small participatory “breaching experiment” aimed at collecting “ugly nature selfies,” we analyse and interrogate nature/society relationships displayed online within the platform contexts of attention economy and affordances. We conclude that nature selfies reinforce the desirability of consuming “beautiful” nature, while attention economy and platform affordances limit the possibilities for alternative nature/society relationships to be developed and promoted.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2263637
Ling-Yan Xu, Jing Jiang, Jian-Guo Du
AbstractEnvironmental regulations and financial support for agriculture have been respectively proved as important means to break through the dilemma of agricultural green development in China. While their interactive influences on agricultural green development are rarely focused, as well as the mediation mechanism. This paper provides an interactive perspective by exploring the direct and indirect mechanisms affecting the relationship between environmental regulations, financial support for agriculture, and agricultural green development, among which the mediating effects of agricultural infrastructure, are further discussed. Based on the provincial panel data for China from the year 2000 to 2021, this paper constructs a fixed effect model, mediating effects model, and threshold panel model to empirically test the direct and indirect effects of environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture on agricultural green development. The results show that: (1) The full sample of agricultural green development in China shows an M-shaped trend, environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture show spatial and temporal heterogeneity among regions. (2) Environmental regulations, financial support for agriculture, and their interaction all have positive effects on agricultural green development, while their interactive effect is greater. (3) Agricultural power facilities not only significantly mediate the relationship between financial support for agriculture and agricultural green development, but also play a mediating role in the positive effect of the interaction between environmental regulations and financial support on agricultural green development. While rural transportation facilities only significantly mediate the positive effect of the interaction between environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture on agricultural green development. (4) Heterogeneity analysis results show that the effect of the interaction between environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture on agricultural green development is greatest in agricultural optimized developing areas; however moderate developing areas are insignificant. This research contributes to understanding how environmental regulations and financial support for agriculture affect agricultural green development and extends the mediating role of agricultural infrastructure in their relationships.Keywords: environmental regulationsfinancial support for agricultureagricultural green developmentagricultural infrastructure Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis research received financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 72174076, 72174054, and 71974081); National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 22AGL028), Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Nos. 21GLB016 and 22GLA007); Special Research Project of School of Emergency Manage
环境规制和金融支持农业分别被证明是突破中国农业绿色发展困境的重要手段。而二者对农业绿色发展的交互影响及中介机制研究较少。本文从互动视角探讨了环境规制、农业金融支持与农业绿色发展之间关系的直接和间接影响机制,并进一步探讨了农业基础设施的中介作用。本文基于2000 - 2021年中国省级面板数据,构建固定效应模型、中介效应模型和门槛面板模型,实证检验环境规制和财政支农对农业绿色发展的直接和间接影响。结果表明:(1)中国农业绿色发展全样本呈m型趋势,环境规制和农业金融支持在区域间呈现时空异质性;(2)环境规制、金融支农及其交互作用对农业绿色发展均有正向影响,且交互作用更大。(3)农电设施不仅显著中介农业金融支持与农业绿色发展之间的关系,而且在环境规制与金融支持之间的互动对农业绿色发展的正向效应中起中介作用。而农村交通设施仅显著中介环境规制与财政支农相互作用对农业绿色发展的正向影响。(4)异质性分析结果表明,环境规制与金融支持对农业绿色发展的交互作用在农业优化发展区最为显著;而中等发展地区则不显著。本研究有助于理解环境法规和农业金融支持对农业绿色发展的影响,并拓展了农业基础设施在二者关系中的中介作用。关键词:环境法规农业金融支持农业绿色发展农业基础设施披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突本研究得到国家自然科学基金项目(72174076、72174054、71974081)资助;国家社科基金项目(No. 22AGL028)、江苏省社科基金项目(No. 21GLB016、22GLA007);江苏大学应急管理学院科研专项(key - a -04和key - c -05),江苏省研究生科研与实践创新计划(KYCX23_3792)。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904
Maria Basílio
AbstractMultilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are extensively involved in the Paris Climate Agreement and play a key role in climate finance. However, the amounts recently channeled to carbon-based projects may raise doubts about this involvement. This empirical approach seeks to explore whether MDB participation actually favors renewable energy projects in developing countries, aligning with their commitment to this Agreement. An empirical analysis is conducted to explore the determinants of MDBs’ participation in energy infrastructure projects developed in 64 countries using data from 2011 to 2018 obtained from the World Bank’s Private Participation in Infrastructure Database. The results reveal that MDBs’ participation is higher in renewable energy projects, confirming their commitment to clean energy; however, this is not confirmed by the amount of financial support provided.Keywords: climate financelimited dependent variable modelsMultilateral Development Banksrenewable energy projectsJEL classification codes: H54Q54F35 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904.Notes1 MDBs are international financial institutions that assist developing countries in reducing poverty, fostering economic growth, and tackling global challenges. MDBs operate as cooperative entities owned and funded by member countries. Their development finance activities include concessional and non-concessional loans, leveraging capital, risk mitigation, co-financing, technical assistance and policy advise.2 The MDBs included in this analysis are the World Bank Group, the European Investment Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Islamic Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank and the new MDBs established in 2015: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (initiated by China) and the New Development Bank (BRICS bank).3 We follow the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and classify hydropower as a renewable source. The largest sources of GHG emissions for hydropower are the construction of the facilities, and biomass decomposition from reservoir flooding (Steinhurst, Knight, and Schultz Citation2012) but large hydropower plants produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions when compared with fossil fuel-based plants.4 In the PPI database, government support may be Direct support - capital subsidy, revenue subsidy or in-kind (lands, for instance); Or Indirect support, in the form of guarantees (e.g., payment guarantee, debt guarantee, revenue guarantee, exchange-rate guarantee).5 Because only the percentage of private participation in each project is available on the database, it is not possible to use the financial amounts provided by the private sector.6 Variables such as “control of corruption” and “government effective
摘要多边开发银行广泛参与《巴黎气候协定》,在气候融资中发挥着关键作用。然而,最近流入碳基项目的资金可能会引发对这种参与的质疑。这种实证方法旨在探讨多边开发银行的参与是否实际上有利于发展中国家的可再生能源项目,并与它们对本协定的承诺相一致。本文利用世界银行私人参与基础设施数据库2011年至2018年的数据,对64个国家的多边开发银行参与能源基础设施项目的决定因素进行了实证分析。结果表明,多边开发银行对可再生能源项目的参与度较高,证实了其对清洁能源的承诺;但是,所提供的财政支助数额并不能证实这一点。关键词:气候融资限制变量模型多边开发银行可再生能源项目jel分类代码:H54Q54F35披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突。补充数据本文的补充数据可通过https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2263904.Notes1在线获取多边开发银行是帮助发展中国家减少贫困、促进经济增长和应对全球挑战的国际金融机构。多边开发银行作为成员国拥有和资助的合作实体运作。它们的发展融资活动包括优惠和非优惠贷款、撬动资本、降低风险、联合融资、技术援助和政策咨询这一分析包括世界银行集团、欧洲投资银行、亚洲开发银行、欧洲复兴开发银行、伊斯兰开发银行、美洲开发银行、非洲开发银行以及2015年新成立的多边开发银行:亚洲基础设施投资银行(由中国发起)和新开发银行(金砖国家银行)我们遵循国际可再生能源机构(IRENA),将水电列为可再生能源。水电温室气体排放的最大来源是设施的建设和水库洪水产生的生物质分解(Steinhurst, Knight, and Schultz citation, 2012),但与基于化石燃料的发电厂相比,大型水电站产生的温室气体排放量更少在生产者价格指数数据库中,政府支持可以是直接支持——资本补贴、收入补贴或实物(例如土地);或间接支持,以担保的形式(如付款担保、债务担保、收入担保、汇率担保)由于数据库只提供私人参与每个项目的百分比,因此不可能使用私人部门提供的财政数额WGI数据集中的“腐败控制”和“政府效率”等变量也进行了测试,但由于共线性问题,这些变量被从分析中删除表2与表A.4或表A.5(联机补充材料)之间项目数量的差异是由于在多边开发银行的支持下在数据库中分类的项目,但没有关于财务金额的信息(无法获得)VIF是一个指标,表明有多少标准误差的膨胀可能是由共线性引起的。根据经验,超过10的值应该引起关注,必须加以纠正对于年度数据,滞后的数量通常很小,以便不失去自由度(Wooldridge Citation2013)另一种可能性是使用Tobit模型,该模型只需要一步就可以估算多边开发银行提供的资金支持,并直接考虑其审查性质。然而,由于它依赖于对误差项的正态性和均方差的强假设,因此本文使用的更一般的模型通常会提供更好的结果为了丰富分析,对“可再生”虚拟变量与其他宏观经济、金融和体制控制之间的几个相互作用项进行了测试,但没有取得统计显著性(结果未提出)多边开发银行参与能源项目,除提供资金外,还可包括几种不同的可能性:业务援助、技术和专业咨询、政治援助、风险缓解工具(例如,担保和政治风险保险)。作者声明在撰写本文期间没有收到任何资金、资助或其他支持。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2263636
Alberto Quintavalla, Orlin Yalnazov
This article develops a framework to guide the EU in the choice of legal form for the regulation of eco-innovation. The framework distinguishes between uncertain and risky applications of eco-innovation. An uncertain eco-innovation, which poses an incalculable risk, is more difficult to regulate because the EU legislator needs to accumulate information in order to plug gaps in knowledge. In that context, directives are superior to regulations because they are conducive to experimentation and information accumulation. Risky eco-innovations, conversely, should be covered by regulations; otherwise, the cost of legal heterogeneity would outweigh the benefits of information accumulation. We also show that there are ways of conceptualising the choice between directives and regulations that are more productive than the sovereignty-versus-competition model that predominates in current legal thinking.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2263635
Mozafar Said, Barbara Tempels
Public spaces face long-term challenges, such as energy transition and climate adaptation, which involve a range of adaptations in the existing public spaces. Simultaneously, managers face short-term everyday challenges. This article explores how Dutch public space managers deal with short- and long-term challenges that affect the effectiveness of public space management. This qualitative study based on exploratory interviews with managers provides insight into the obstacles public space managers face in dealing with these long-term and short-term challenges. The study found four characteristics of the current practice: (1) the sectoral division between design and management, (2) the conflict-and-action approach, (3) the asset-based focus, and (4) the linear approach. Together, these characteristics prevent the current practice from effectively facing both long-term and short-term challenges. The findings provide a starting point to think about how public space management could be reorganized to ensure the quality and functionality of public space in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2260556
Qianwen Zang, Weixian Xue
AbstractChina’s economy has entered a new phase of development, but ecological and environmental issues continue to hinder the quality of economic development. Meanwhile, the externalities of industrial agglomeration are seen as essential for promoting high-quality economic development. This article proposes a theoretical framework to examine the relationship between industrial agglomeration, environmental protection, and high-quality economic development. Using cities along the Yellow River Basin as the research object, a spatial econometric model is employed to verify the hypothesis. Ultimately, the conclusions are as follows. First, there is a significant U-shaped curve relationship between industrial agglomeration and high-quality economic development, as well as between environmental protection and a high-quality economy. Industrial agglomeration plays a significant role in promoting environmental protection. Second, high-quality economic development exhibits spatial spillover effects under both spatial weight matrices, while industrial agglomeration and environmental protection only show spatial spillover effects based on geographical distance spatial weight matrices. Finally, the article suggests that cities should accelerate the degree of industrial agglomeration to achieve the dual effect of promoting environmental protection and high-quality economic development. Additionally, governments should pay special attention to inter-regional synergistic mechanisms when fostering ecological protection and high-quality economic development.Keywords: industrial agglomerationenvironmental protectionhigh-quality economic developmentspatial econometric modelcities along the Yellow River Basin Author contributionsQianwen Zang: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing – original draft, software, formal analysis, writing – review and editing, project administration, validation, visualization; Weixian Xue: resources, funding acquisition, and supervision.Disclosure statementThe authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this article.Data availabilityMaterials described in the manuscript will be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant confidentiality.Notes1 This paper focuses on 57 cities in China, including Taiyuan, Datong, Yangquan, Changzhi, Jincheng, Shuozhou, Jinzhong, Yuncheng, Xinzhou, Linfen, Lvliang, Hohhot, Baotou, Wuhai, Ordos, Bayannur, Ulanqab, Jinan, Zibo, Dongying, Jining, Tai’an, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Binzhou, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Anyang, Hebi, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Tongchuan, Puyang, Sanmenxia, Xi’an, Tongchuan, Baoji, Heze, Xining, Weinan, Yan’an, Yulin, Shangluo, Lanzhou, Baiyin, Tianshui, Wuwei, Pingliang, Qingyang, Dingxi, Longnan, Yinchuan, Shizuishan, Wuzhong, Guyuan, and Zhongwei.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported b
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AbstractLocal climate change mitigation plans can be essential in enabling sustainability transitions at the municipality level. However, existing frameworks for assessing the quality of climate plans inadequately address their potential to foster sustainability transitions. We develop an assessment framework consisting of indicators and associated questions by integrating elements of the transition management framework with essential quality dimensions of climate plans and planning processes identified through a literature review. We illustrate and validate the assessment framework by applying it to the climate plans of three medium-sized cities in Switzerland. Our findings demonstrate that the local climate change mitigation plans performed well regarding the tactical and operational indicators but were less optimal concerning strategic and reflexive indicators. Nevertheless, the transition management framework provided a useful framework contributing to a comprehensive and systemic assessment highlighting the importance of stakeholder involvement, inter-sectoral coordination, and monitoring and evaluation as a means for social learning.Keywords: Climate change mitigationlocal climate action plansplan qualityassessment frameworktransition management AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementThe authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Notes1 Sustainability transitions refer to radical changes towards greater sustainability in central systems of production and consumption, which are needed to address the multiple current environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Importantly, such changes necessitate not only new technologies, but also modifications in infrastructures, consumption patterns, rules and regulations, business models, etc. (Köhler et al. Citation2019). ‘Transitions management’ has long been recognized as a useful framework for understanding and influencing these complex long-term changes needed for cities to become sustainable in the future (Loorbach Citation2007; Loorbach, Frantzeskaki, and Avelino Citation2017), including the type of processes that are needed to engage in substantial local mitigation of GHG emissions.2 Due to the, in general, limited literature on LCAP quality, we have in addition to the dedicated mitigation action plans also included relevant studies that assess LCAP covering both mitigation and adaptation. In such cases, we have analysed the study with regard to the mitigation planning related findings.Additional informationFundingTeis Hansen acknowledges funding from the Research Council of Norway through FME NTRANS, grant 296205.
摘要地方气候变化减缓计划对于实现市政一级的可持续性转型至关重要。然而,评估气候计划质量的现有框架未能充分发挥其促进可持续转型的潜力。通过将过渡管理框架的要素与通过文献综述确定的气候计划和规划过程的基本质量维度相结合,我们开发了一个由指标和相关问题组成的评估框架。我们通过将其应用于瑞士三个中等城市的气候规划来说明和验证评估框架。我们的研究结果表明,地方气候变化减缓计划在战术和业务指标方面表现良好,但在战略和反思性指标方面表现不佳。然而,过渡管理框架提供了一个有用的框架,有助于进行全面和系统的评估,强调利益相关者参与、部门间协调以及作为社会学习手段的监测和评估的重要性。关键词:气候变化减缓;地方气候行动计划;质量评估框架;作者报告无利益竞争需要申报。注1可持续性转型是指生产和消费中心系统向更大可持续性方向的根本变化,这是解决当前多重环境危机(包括气候变化和生物多样性丧失)所必需的。重要的是,这种变化不仅需要新技术,还需要对基础设施、消费模式、规章制度、商业模式等进行修改(Köhler等)。Citation2019)。长期以来,“过渡管理”一直被认为是理解和影响城市未来可持续发展所需的这些复杂长期变化的有用框架(Loorbach Citation2007;Loorbach, Frantzeskaki, and Avelino引文(2017),包括参与大量减少当地温室气体排放所需的过程类型由于总体而言,关于LCAP质量的文献有限,除了专门的缓解行动计划外,我们还纳入了评估LCAP的相关研究,涵盖了缓解和适应两方面。在这种情况下,我们分析了与缓解规划有关的研究结果。teis Hansen承认挪威研究委员会通过FME NTRANS提供的资金,拨款296205。
{"title":"A framework for assessing the sustainable transition potential of municipal climate change mitigation plans","authors":"Carsten Nico Hjortsø, Brigitte Epprecht, Teis Hansen","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2260090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2260090","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractLocal climate change mitigation plans can be essential in enabling sustainability transitions at the municipality level. However, existing frameworks for assessing the quality of climate plans inadequately address their potential to foster sustainability transitions. We develop an assessment framework consisting of indicators and associated questions by integrating elements of the transition management framework with essential quality dimensions of climate plans and planning processes identified through a literature review. We illustrate and validate the assessment framework by applying it to the climate plans of three medium-sized cities in Switzerland. Our findings demonstrate that the local climate change mitigation plans performed well regarding the tactical and operational indicators but were less optimal concerning strategic and reflexive indicators. Nevertheless, the transition management framework provided a useful framework contributing to a comprehensive and systemic assessment highlighting the importance of stakeholder involvement, inter-sectoral coordination, and monitoring and evaluation as a means for social learning.Keywords: Climate change mitigationlocal climate action plansplan qualityassessment frameworktransition management AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementThe authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Notes1 Sustainability transitions refer to radical changes towards greater sustainability in central systems of production and consumption, which are needed to address the multiple current environmental crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss. Importantly, such changes necessitate not only new technologies, but also modifications in infrastructures, consumption patterns, rules and regulations, business models, etc. (Köhler et al. Citation2019). ‘Transitions management’ has long been recognized as a useful framework for understanding and influencing these complex long-term changes needed for cities to become sustainable in the future (Loorbach Citation2007; Loorbach, Frantzeskaki, and Avelino Citation2017), including the type of processes that are needed to engage in substantial local mitigation of GHG emissions.2 Due to the, in general, limited literature on LCAP quality, we have in addition to the dedicated mitigation action plans also included relevant studies that assess LCAP covering both mitigation and adaptation. In such cases, we have analysed the study with regard to the mitigation planning related findings.Additional informationFundingTeis Hansen acknowledges funding from the Research Council of Norway through FME NTRANS, grant 296205.","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AbstractDigital finance has become one of the most important factors that drives the transformation toward a low-carbon economy. Although some researchers have examined the association between digital finance and low-carbon development, the indirect effect and asymmetric effect of digital finance on low-carbon development still needs to receive more attention. Taking 71 cities in the Yellow River Basin as an empirical area, this study analyzed how digital finance accelerates low-carbon development, proving that digital finance can directly boost low-carbon development. Moreover, technological innovation and industrial upgrading driven by digital finance can also reduce carbon emission intensity and accelerate low-carbon development. Furthermore, the results of the asymmetric test indicate that cities with higher carbon emission intensity have a more substantial positive influence. The recommendations presented in this study are beneficial for accelerating the progress of low-carbon development in the Yellow River Basin.Keywords: digital financelow-carbon developmentthe mediation effectYellow River Basin Disclosure statementThe authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication in this article.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed here.Additional informationFundingThis study was mainly supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (No. 2019QZKK0406), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42271224 and 42171170).
{"title":"How does digital finance accelerate low-carbon development: evidence from the Yellow River Basin, China","authors":"Qingfang Liu, Wei Wu, Jinping Song, Teqi Dai, Huaxiong Jiang, Jianhui Xu, Jianmei Li, Huiran Han, Mengqi Li","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2258449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2258449","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractDigital finance has become one of the most important factors that drives the transformation toward a low-carbon economy. Although some researchers have examined the association between digital finance and low-carbon development, the indirect effect and asymmetric effect of digital finance on low-carbon development still needs to receive more attention. Taking 71 cities in the Yellow River Basin as an empirical area, this study analyzed how digital finance accelerates low-carbon development, proving that digital finance can directly boost low-carbon development. Moreover, technological innovation and industrial upgrading driven by digital finance can also reduce carbon emission intensity and accelerate low-carbon development. Furthermore, the results of the asymmetric test indicate that cities with higher carbon emission intensity have a more substantial positive influence. The recommendations presented in this study are beneficial for accelerating the progress of low-carbon development in the Yellow River Basin.Keywords: digital financelow-carbon developmentthe mediation effectYellow River Basin Disclosure statementThe authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication in this article.Supplemental dataSupplemental data for this article can be accessed here.Additional informationFundingThis study was mainly supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (No. 2019QZKK0406), and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42271224 and 42171170).","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135536261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2259602
Lulu Zhao, Jingjing Ye
AbstractThis paper uses a double difference method to examine the impact of civilized city policies on urban green total factor productivity and its mechanism of action using Chinese city-level data from 2005 to 2021. The study finds that the civilized city policy promotes urban green development. The mechanism test finds that the civilized city policy achieves urban green development by strengthening government investment in environmental governance, optimizing industrial structure upgrading, and promoting urban innovation. The moderating mechanism finds that economic growth targets and environmental regulations influence the green growth effect of civilized city policy. Heterogeneity analysis found that the green growth effect of civilized cities has an asymmetric relationship in the east-central region, in areas with lower population density, and was more pronounced in cities with high human capital, high local government financial autonomy, and high levels of information technology.Keywords: Civilized cities policygreen total factor productivitygovernment actionquasi-natural experiments Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
{"title":"Can civilized city construction facilitate green total factor productivity? A quasi-natural experiment based on China’s pilot civilized city","authors":"Lulu Zhao, Jingjing Ye","doi":"10.1080/09640568.2023.2259602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2023.2259602","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis paper uses a double difference method to examine the impact of civilized city policies on urban green total factor productivity and its mechanism of action using Chinese city-level data from 2005 to 2021. The study finds that the civilized city policy promotes urban green development. The mechanism test finds that the civilized city policy achieves urban green development by strengthening government investment in environmental governance, optimizing industrial structure upgrading, and promoting urban innovation. The moderating mechanism finds that economic growth targets and environmental regulations influence the green growth effect of civilized city policy. Heterogeneity analysis found that the green growth effect of civilized cities has an asymmetric relationship in the east-central region, in areas with lower population density, and was more pronounced in cities with high human capital, high local government financial autonomy, and high levels of information technology.Keywords: Civilized cities policygreen total factor productivitygovernment actionquasi-natural experiments Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":48149,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Planning and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}