Climate and environmental governance actions and regional equilibrium development in China | Xianhong Su

Field | Discipline

• Environment economic
• Regional imbalance

Expertise

• Panel Data Analysis
• Input - Output Analysis
• Data Envelopment Analysis

Summary

Most developing countries still follow traditional development approaches. The conflict among resources, environment, and economic and social development has become a significant barrier to sustainable economic growth in these countries. Unlike the historical experience of developed countries, which addressed environmental pollution before controlling carbon emissions, developing countries must carry out environmental governance and carbon emission simultaneously.

Cities are the basic units for implementing green and low-carbon development policies. However, discrepancies in resource endowments and economic development lead each city to adopt distinct environmental and economic policies, and different preferences potentially development change the original pattern among cities. For example, CO2 and PM2.5 emissions in Chinese cities exhibit both spatial ‘aggregation’ and ‘differentiation’. The varying effectiveness of pollution and carbon reduction actions in China’s cities may widen the regional development disparities, and even create a Matthew effect, contradicting the goal of coordinated regional sustainable development. Thus, in my project, I explore a path which promote energy consumption reduction and green development, considering regional differences to enhance comprehensive and coordinated development at the regional level.

Supervision by

• Promotor: Prof. dr. K.S. (Klaus) Hubacek | Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society - IREES | ESRIG, University of Groningen.
• Co-promotor: Dr. F. (Franco) Ruzzenenti | | Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society - IREES | ESRIG, University of Groningen.

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