Environmental decentralization, environmental protection investment, and green technology innovation.
Environmental decentralization
Environmental management
Environmental protection investment
Green technology innovation
Journal
Environmental science and pollution research international
ISSN: 1614-7499
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9441769
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Historique:
received:
18
03
2020
accepted:
22
06
2020
pubmed:
28
6
2020
medline:
3
2
2022
entrez:
28
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The reform of environmental management systems is key to improving environmental pollution treatment and green technology innovation. Based on panel data on 30 provincial administrative regions in China for 2008 to 2016, this paper analyzes the impacts of environmental decentralization and environmental protection investment on green technology innovation. It is first found that environmental decentralization promotes green technology innovation after inhibition. Similar effects are found for environmental administrative decentralization, environmental monitoring decentralization, and environmental supervision decentralization. Second, in the long run, environmental decentralization in developed and low-emission regions is more conducive to green technology innovation. Third, environmental pollution treatment investment has a significant inhibiting effect on green technology innovation under high levels of environmental decentralization, and the inhibiting effects of industrial pollution source treatment investment and "three simultaneous" construction project investments are particularly obvious. This paper explores green technology innovation as the goal of environmental decentralization, which is the driving force behind pollution control. From the perspective of environmental protection investment, the paper further analyzes the impact of environmental decentralization on green technology innovation. The study has important reference value for determining reasonable levels of environmental decentralization among different levels of governance and in formulating differentiated strategies of environmental decentralization.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32592052
doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-09849-z
pii: 10.1007/s11356-020-09849-z
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
12740-12755Subventions
Organisme : National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science
ID : 15ZDB163
Informations de copyright
© 2020. Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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