The Environmental Policy Choice and the Pollution-Haven Hypothesis

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  • HUANG Zheng
    Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University
  • TONOOKA Yutaka
    Department of Social Environmental Planning, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University
  • SEKIGUCHI Kazuhiko
    Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University
  • WANG Qingyue
    Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University
  • SAKAMOTO Kazuhiko
    Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University

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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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