Assessing Chinese governance low-carbon economic peer effects in local government and under sustainable environmental regulation

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 30; no. 22; pp. 61304 - 61323
• Main Authors: Liu, Hongda, Zhou, Ruili, Yao, Pinbo, Zhang, Jijian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; China; Competition; Conservation of Natural Resources; Decay; decentralization; Decisions; Earth and Environmental Science; econometrics; Economic Development; Ecotoxicology; Emotional behavior; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; environmental law; Environmental Policy; Environmental regulations; Environmental science; Escape behavior; funding; governance; Government; Green development; Green Finance and Low-Carbon Economic Recovery in the Post COVID-19 World; Heterogeneity; issues and policy; Local Government; motivation; Performance appraisal; Regional development; Regional planning; Support systems; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; China; Environmental foundations; Peer effects; Local government; Green governance; Incentive logic; Systematic analysis framework

The current study developed a systematic analytical framework to explore the logic of forming the cohort effect of green governance and green development in China in the new era. Based on provincial panel data from 2008 to 2018, this paper examines the existence, scope, and induced control of the gr...