Geographical Spillover and Environmental Efficiency

Abstract:

Taking environmental efficiency as the exclusive indicator for the relationship between environmental performance and industrial development, the author calculated the environmental efficiency of China under different pollutant disposability assumptions, while also considering environmental pollution. In addition, the author uses partial econometric model to interprets the spatial characteristics of environmental efficiency and extracts the main factors that influence the environmental efficiency. The analysis results show that: when impact of undesirable outputs (pollutant emissions) is considered, the average environmental efficiency of Chinas industries declines markedly. Environmental efficiency has the obvious effect of the spatial external effect, and when the government makes energy saving strategies, inter-regional energy cooperation and the proliferation of advanced production technology should be given more priority.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 726-731)
• Pages: 1138-1141
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.726-731.1138
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Neng Shen*
• Keywords: Environmental Efficiency, Space Dependence, Undesirable Output

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