Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 429-442Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-018-0412-8
Keywords
Air pollution; Coal consumption; Economic; Environmental investment; Industrial emissions; Path analysis; Urbanization
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- Projects of Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province [2017SZ0173]
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With the rapid economic development and urbanization, there would be severe air pollution. The path analysis method was employed to investigate the specific effects of Industrial Gross Domestic Product (IGDP), Urbanization Rate (UR), Environmental Investment (EI), and Coal Consumption (CC) on Industrial SO2 Emissions (ISE) and Industrial Dust Emissions (IDE). The results shown that (1) IGDP is the main reason for the increase in ISE and IDE, with the direct positive influence more than 20% and a total contribution of more than 35%, and the combined effects of UR can reduce air pollutants emission considerably, especially in ISE. (2) The effects of EI and CC on ISE could be ignored, given that their contributions comprised <10%. Meanwhile, the contribution of EI to IDE was only 8.92%. For one reason, EI is underfunded which the percentage of Gross Domestic Product was <2%.
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