The Dynamic Fluctuation Relationship between China’s Urbanization and the Disparity of Urban-Rural Resident Living Direct Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A SVAR Analysis

Abstract:

Currently, continuous China’s urbanization will emit considerable carbon dioxide emissions, so that China is facing mounting pressure from not only the international community but also domestic itself. This paper applies SVAR model to evaluate the dynamic fluctuation relationship between China’s urbanization and the disparity of urban-rural resident living direct carbon dioxide emissions. The result indicates that the urbanization has an obvious positive effect on the difference of resident living direct carbon dioxide emissions from urban and rural in the short term and it has negative impact in the long term. Moreover, the impact of urban-rural resident living direct carbon dioxide emissions disparity on the urbanization has a negative effect in the short term, gradually turns into a positive, and finally stabilizes zero level. Based on the above conclusions, the government should provide corresponding policy implications for China's carbon emission reduction.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 518-523)
• Pages: 6079-6083
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.518-523.6079
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Yaqin Liu, Guo Hao Zhao
• Keywords: Impulse Response Function, Resident Living Direct Carbon Dioxide Emissions, SVAR Model, Urbanization, Variance Decomposition

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