Environmental Impacts of E-Commerce Logistics in China

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E-commerce logistics play a big role in economic activity. It can satisfy the demand through the right and cost-effective delivery of goods and services. It will create greater demand for transportation services. As e-commerce and logistics systems continue to integrate, their impacts on the physical environment will become more complex. Two environmental indices of air pollution and six development indices of e-commerce logistics are chosen. By using panel data and fixed effects, variation intercept models to measure the environmental impacts of e-commerce logistics. Results show that can e-commerce logistics have both negative and positive effects on environment. The rapidly increasing number of cars in use has negative environmental impacts.

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