成金华、易佳慧等 Can low-carbon city construction facilitate green growth? Evidence from China's pilot low-carbon city initiative

  我校金沙8888js官方成金华老师团队在T2级别期刊——《Journal of Cleaner Production》上发表题为“Can low-carbon city construction facilitate green growth? Evidence from China's pilot low-carbon city initiative”。论文第一作者成金华为金沙8888js官方教授，博士生导师。

ABSTRACT：Faced with the predicament of sustainable development in traditional cities, the low-carbon city, as a novel urban development mode, provides a feasible idea for resolving the tensions among urban development, resource conservation and environmental protection. Using prefecture-level panel data during 2007–2016, we adopt the difference-in-differences model to explore the impact of low-carbon city construction on green growth. Afterward, we estimate the heterogeneity of economic-environmental effects on cities, and those effects are attributed to different scales and locations. The robustness tests reveal that low-carbon pilot cities significantly and continuously benefit in terms of the green total factor productivity through technical effects being partly transformed into green technical progress and structural effects. Additionally, the construction of low-carbon cities has scale economy and regional differences. Cities with larger scales, more complete infrastructure and better foundations for technology have more significantly positive effects on green growth. These findings also apply to cities in similar developing countries seeking to achieve economic transformation and green growth.

论文信息;

Title: Can low-carbon city construction facilitate green growth? Evidence from China's pilot low-carbon city initiative

Authors: Jinhua Cheng,Jiahui Yi,Sheng Dai,Yan Xiong

KEYWORDS：Low-carbon city construction,Green total factor productivity,Green growth,Scale and location heterogeneity,Pilot city

JOURNAL：Journal of Cleaner Production

Published：March 2019

DOI：10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.05.327

全文链接：https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619318633