TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental performance and returns to pollution abatement in China
AU - Managi, Shunsuke
AU - Kaneko, Shinji
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank two anonymous referees for helpful comments. This research was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), No.70372456. The results and conclusions of this paper do not necessary represent the views of the funding agencies.
PY - 2009/4/15
Y1 - 2009/4/15
N2 - Because of China's extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of environmental problems is no longer in doubt. Whether pollution abatement technologies are utilized more efficiently is crucial in the analysis of environmental management in China. This study analyzes how the performance of environmental management has changed over time using province level data for 1992-2003. Mixed results for environmental performance are shown using nonparametric estimation technique. We find that environmental performance index, abatement effort, and increasing returns to pollution abatement play important roles in determining the pollution level over the period of the study.
AB - Because of China's extremely rapid economic growth, the scale and seriousness of environmental problems is no longer in doubt. Whether pollution abatement technologies are utilized more efficiently is crucial in the analysis of environmental management in China. This study analyzes how the performance of environmental management has changed over time using province level data for 1992-2003. Mixed results for environmental performance are shown using nonparametric estimation technique. We find that environmental performance index, abatement effort, and increasing returns to pollution abatement play important roles in determining the pollution level over the period of the study.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.04.005
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.04.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:62349116625
SN - 0921-8009
VL - 68
SP - 1643
EP - 1651
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
IS - 6
ER -
