Can low-carbon city construction facilitate green growth? Evidence from China's pilot low-carbon city initiative
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Can low-carbon city construction facilitate green growth? Evidence from China's pilot low-carbon city initiative. / Cheng, Jinhua; Yi, Jiahui; Dai, Sheng; Xiong, Yan.
In: Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 231, 10.09.2019, p. 1158-1170.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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T1 - Can low-carbon city construction facilitate green growth?
T2 - Evidence from China's pilot low-carbon city initiative
AU - Cheng, Jinhua
AU - Yi, Jiahui
AU - Dai, Sheng
AU - Xiong, Yan
PY - 2019/9/10
Y1 - 2019/9/10
N2 - Faced with the predicament of sustainable development in traditional cities, the low-carbon city, as a novel urban development mode, provides a feasible idea for resolving the tensions among urban development, resource conservation and environmental protection. Using prefecture-level panel data during 2007-2016, we adopt the difference-in-differences model to explore the impact of low-carbon city construction on green growth. Afterward, we estimate the heterogeneity of economic environmental effects on cities, and those effects are attributed to different scales and locations. The robustness tests reveal that low-carbon pilot cities significantly and continuously benefit in terms of the green total factor productivity through technical effects being partly transformed into green technical progress and structural effects. Additionally, the construction of low-carbon cities has scale economy and regional differences. Cities with larger scales, more complete infrastructure and better foundations for technology have more significantly positive effects on green growth. These findings also apply to cities in similar developing countries seeking to achieve economic transformation and green growth. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - Faced with the predicament of sustainable development in traditional cities, the low-carbon city, as a novel urban development mode, provides a feasible idea for resolving the tensions among urban development, resource conservation and environmental protection. Using prefecture-level panel data during 2007-2016, we adopt the difference-in-differences model to explore the impact of low-carbon city construction on green growth. Afterward, we estimate the heterogeneity of economic environmental effects on cities, and those effects are attributed to different scales and locations. The robustness tests reveal that low-carbon pilot cities significantly and continuously benefit in terms of the green total factor productivity through technical effects being partly transformed into green technical progress and structural effects. Additionally, the construction of low-carbon cities has scale economy and regional differences. Cities with larger scales, more complete infrastructure and better foundations for technology have more significantly positive effects on green growth. These findings also apply to cities in similar developing countries seeking to achieve economic transformation and green growth. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW - Low-carbon city construction
KW - Green total factor productivity
KW - Green growth
KW - Scale and location heterogeneity
KW - Pilot city
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.327
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.327
M3 - Article
VL - 231
SP - 1158
EP - 1170
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
SN - 0959-6526
ER -
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