The Environmental Policy Choice and the Pollution-Haven Hypothesis

HUANG Zheng, TONOOKA Yutaka, SEKIGUCHI Kazuhiko, WANG Qingyue, SAKAMOTO Kazuhiko

doi:10.11353/sesj.23.67

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汚染産業移転仮説と環境政策選択
汚染産業移転仮説と環境政策選択--地域間経済格差からみた中国の環境問題
オセンサンギョウイテンカセツトカンキョウセイサクセンタクチイキカンケイザイカクサカラミタチュウゴクノカンキョウモンダイ
地域間経済格差からみた中国の環境問題
Evidence from Regional Comparison in China

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China's recent rapid economic growth has continued, and along with it environmental problems have become increasingly apparent. In this study, we analyzed the relationship between regional economic development and environmental problems using environmental Kuznets curves and Pollution-Haven hypothesis. China was divided into two areas and environmental Kuznets curves were drawn for each area. Regional economic developments, and the relation with the three types of environment loads, air pollution, water environment, solid waste problem, were analyzed by the coastal and inland areas in China. In terms of COD, the tendency to the improvement was found. In terms of SO₂ and solid waste, two regions showed the tendency of increasing with the economy growth. With the income elasticity effect, the composition of industry became cleaner in the coastal region than in the inland region. Our findings were that the imbalance of economic development between the coastal and inland areas has aggravated environmental problems, and the gap between economic development and environmental control has generally grown.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 23 (2), 67-80, 2010

SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, JAPAN

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