This book contributes to the understanding of environment–economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China. It demonstrates how classical economic geographies, new economic geographies, and geographies of economic globalization work together to affect the environment. It covers a series of classical topics like industrial location and industrial dynamics and some emerging fields like industrial evolution and global–local interaction and links them to environmental performance in China. The findings in this book echo the call for developing a more comprehensive and systematic research agenda of environmental economic geography. This book offers researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in related fields both theoretical and practical considerations of environmental economic geography. It also offers insights into the policy-making relevant to China’s greening efforts.
Author(s): Canfei He, Xiyan Mao
Series: Economic Geography
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 304
City: Singapore
Foreword
Parts of this monograph have been published in the following journal articles but with significant modifications.
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: When Economic Geography Meets the Environment
1.1 Responding to Environmental Challenges
1.2 Practicing Environmental Economic Geography in China
1.3 Overview of the Book
References
2 Developing Environmental Economic Geography
2.1 Places, Regional Development, and the Environment
2.1.1 Concentration of Economic Activities and the Environment
2.1.2 Location of Economic Activities and the Environment
2.1.3 Regional Development and the Environment
2.2 Flows, Globalization, and the Environment
2.2.1 Factor Flows and the Environment
2.2.2 Global Production Network and the Environment
2.3 Innovation, Institution, Transition, and the Environment
2.3.1 Geography of Innovation and the Environment
2.3.2 Multi-level Institutions and the Environment
2.3.3 Transition Towards Sustainability
2.4 Moving Forward: From Polyvocal EEGs to a Coherent EEG?
2.4.1 Continuous Efforts to Developing a Research Agenda for EEG
2.4.2 Building Four Pillars for EEG
2.4.3 Future Foci of EEG on the Transiting and Opening China
2.5 Conclusion and Discussion
References
Part IInternal Development and the Geography of Industrial Environmental Performance in China
3 How Is Geography of Industries Related to Industrial Pollution?
3.1 Industrial Geography in China
3.1.1 Data and Methods
3.1.2 Spatial Distribution of China’s Industries
3.1.3 Structural Characteristics of Industrial Distribution
3.1.4 Spatial Distribution of Polluting Industries
3.1.5 Changes of Spatial Distribution of Polluting Industries
3.2 Geography of Industrial Pollution Emission in China
3.2.1 Total Pollution Emission
3.2.2 Pollution Emission Intensity
3.3 Spatial Relationship Between Industrial Geography and Industrial Pollution
3.3.1 Methods
3.3.2 Linear Regression Analysis
3.3.3 Spatial Correlation Analysis
3.4 Discussion
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Do Polluting Firms Favour the Borders of Jurisdictions?
4.1 Locate Near the Border? Agglomeration Effects Versus Free-Rider Effects
4.1.1 Agglomeration Effects
4.1.2 Free-Rider Effects
4.2 A Decision Model of Regulation Stringency
4.3 Data Description
4.4 Spatial Pattern of Polluting Firms in China
4.5 Empirical Strategy of Polluting Firm Locational Choices
4.5.1 Variables
4.5.2 Empirical Results
4.6 Conclusion and Implications
References
5 Do Environmental Regulations Affect Air Quality and SO2 Emissions?
5.1 Environmental Regulations and Air Quality in China
5.1.1 Literature Review and Hypotheses Development
5.1.2 Air Pollution and Polluting Industries
5.1.3 Model Specification and Variables
5.1.4 Empirical Results
5.2 Environmental Regulations and Industrial SO2 Emission Reduction
5.2.1 Environmental Regulations and SO2 Emission
5.2.2 Spatial-Temporal Pattern of SO2 Emission Reduction
5.2.3 Empirical Analysis of Factors Influencing Industrial SO2 Emission
5.3 Conclusion and Discussion
References
6 How Does China’s Economic Transition Contribute to Air Pollution?
6.1 Air Pollution in China: A Perspective of Economic Transition
6.1.1 Marketization and Industrial Air Pollution
6.1.2 Economic Globalization and Industrial Air Pollution
6.1.3 Regional Decentralization and Industrial Air Pollution
6.2 Structural and Spatial Patterns of Industrial Air Pollution in China
6.2.1 Industrial Patterns of Pollution in Chinese Cities
6.2.2 Industrial Air Pollution in Chinese Cities
6.3 Empirics and Results
6.3.1 Variables and Models
6.3.2 Empirical Results
6.4 Conclusion and Discussion
References
7 How Does Industrial Dynamics Affect Environmental Pollution?
7.1 Paths of Industrial Dynamic and Environmental Performance
7.2 Industrial Dynamics and Environmental Performance in China
7.2.1 Data and Methods
7.2.2 Changes of Pollution Intensity in the Wake of Industrial Dynamics
7.3 Empirical Analysis
7.3.1 Model Specification
7.3.2 Empirical Results
7.4 Conclusion and Discussion
References
Part IIGlobal Shift of Environmental Burdens and the Geography of Industrial Environmental Performance in China
8 Is There a Trade-Related Pollution Trap for China?
8.1 Developing Economies: Pollution Haven or Pollution Trap?
8.2 How to Compute Pollution Contents in Trade?
8.3 Examine the Pollution Trap Hypothesis
8.3.1 Identifying the Pollution Trap Phenomenon Using PTT Index
8.3.2 Examining the Determinants of Pollution Trap Phenomenon
8.3.3 Data
8.4 Evidence from China’s Foreign Trade
8.4.1 The Pollution Trap Phenomenon in China
8.4.2 Determinants of the Pollution Trap Phenomenon
8.5 Conclusion
References
9 How Does Spatial Division of Labour Relate to Industrial Pollution?
9.1 Foreign Trade, Spatial Division of Labour, and the Environment
9.1.1 Foreign Trade and the Internal Geography of Trading Countries
9.1.2 An Evolutionary Perspective for Spatial Division of Labour and Environmental Effects
9.2 Research Design
9.2.1 Measurement of Regional Specialization
9.2.2 Measurement of Path Extension and Path Branching
9.2.3 Identification of Polluting and Non-polluting Industries
9.2.4 Model Specifications
9.2.5 Data
9.3 Spatial Division of Labour of Polluting Industries in China
9.3.1 Spatial Patterns of Regional Specialization in Polluting and Non-polluting Industries
9.3.2 Development Path of Regions Specialized in Polluting and Non-polluting Industries
9.4 Empirical Results
9.4.1 Path Extension and Industrial Pollution Intensity
9.4.2 Path Branching and Industrial Pollution Intensity
9.4.3 Robustness Check
9.5 Conclusion and Discussion
References
10 Do Foreign Trade Contribute to Industrial Pollution?
10.1 A Research Framework Based on the Global-Local Linkage
10.2 China’s Foreign Trade and Industrial Pollution Emission
10.2.1 Data
10.2.2 Spatial Discrepancy Between Emission and Intensity of Industrial Pollution
10.2.3 Foreign Trade and Industrial Pollution Emission
10.3 Empirical Analysis
10.3.1 Model Specification
10.3.2 Estimation and Tests
10.3.3 Empirical Results
10.4 Conclusion
References
11 Does Export Upgrading Improve Urban Environment?
11.1 Export Upgrading and Its Global-Local Drivers
11.2 Environmental Performance of Export Upgrading
11.3 Assessing the Environmental Performance of Export Upgrading
11.3.1 Measure Different Ways of Export Upgrading
11.3.2 Examining the Environmental Performance of Export Upgrading
11.3.3 Data
11.4 Evidence from China’s Foreign Trade
11.4.1 Disjuncture Between Export Upgrading and Environmental Improvement
11.4.2 Environmental Performance of Various Upgrading Types and Trade Patterns
11.4.3 The Role of Specialization in Polluting Production
11.4.4 The Role of Environmental Regulation
11.5 Conclusion
References
12 Summary and Implications
12.1 The Value of Environmental Economic Geography
12.2 Empirical Findings from China’s Case Based on EEG
12.2.1 The Core-Periphery Interactions
12.2.2 The Global-Local Interactions
12.2.3 The Government-Market Interactions
12.3 Is EEG a Fresh Start?
12.4 Implications for Moving Forward
