What is the role of openness for China's aggregate industrial SO2 emission?: A structural analysis based on the Divisia decomposition method
Having observed the weaknesses in previous structural analyses on the role of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), the author proposes a detailed analysis using a rich data set of provincial level production and SO2 emission intensity of 13 industrial sectors. The latter represent more than 98% of the total industrial production in each Chinese province for the period 1991-2001. Through the use of the log-mean Divisia Index Decomposition method, the variations in province-level industrial SO2 emissions with regard to the 1990 baseline level are decomposed into the contribution from three components: scale, composition, and technical effects. The following analysis seeks to explain how trade openness affects aggregate industrial SO2 emission through its impact on the structural determinants for these three components of region-specific environmental variations.
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2010
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Authors: | He, Jie |
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Ecological Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0921-8009. - Vol. 69.2010, 4, p. 868-886
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Environmental Kuznets Curve Trade Pollution China Regional decomposition |
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