Effects of inter-industry agglomeration on environmental pollution: Evidence from China-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Effects of inter-industry agglomeration on environmental pollution: Evidence from China

Published:2023 Issue:4 Volume:20 Page:7113-7139
ISSN:1551-0018
Container-title:Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
language:
Short-container-title:MBE

Author:

Xu Li¹,Guo Ping¹,Pan Guoqin²

Affiliation:

1. School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha 410006, China

2. School of Economics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

Abstract

<abstract><p>Industrial pollution comes not only from within industries, but also from between industries that are strongly linked. From the perspective of agglomeration, this study explores the mutual transmission of pollution between different manufacturing industries. We found that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between inter-industry agglomeration and environmental pollution among 20 Chinese manufacturing industries. Energy intensity, which is an important transmission path from agglomeration to pollution, is positively related to the energy consumption of industries with some degree of agglomeration. Besides, the expansion of production scale caused by inter-industry agglomeration leads to more energy consumption and pollution. Furthermore, the innovative technology resulting from inter-industry agglomeration reduces environmental pollution but does not have a significant impact on energy consumption.</p> </abstract>

Publisher

American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

Subject

Applied Mathematics,Computational Mathematics,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Modeling and Simulation,General Medicine

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