An empirical study of the environmental Kuznets curve for environmental quality in Gansu province

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.03.023

	An empirical study of the environmental Kuznets curve for environmental quality in Gansu province
	Wang, Lijun ; Zhou, Dequn ; Wang, Yongyu; Zha, Donglan
	2015-09
发表期刊	ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
卷号	56 页码:96-105
摘要	The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) can be defined as a significant tool dedicated to explore the relationship between economic development and environment degradation. And EKC empirical studies usually confirm an inverted U-shaped relationship between some pollutants and per capita income. However, pollution load indicators seem insufficient to represent environmental quality comprehensively. Therefore, the empirical study of EKC for environmental quality, which confirms a U-shaped relationship has been conducted in Gansu province, China. What is more, time series econometric methodologies were used to take environmental quality as endogenous variable, and Bayesian methods were employed to deal with the trouble of overfitting problem. Based on the empirical data of Gansu province from 1980 to 2012, the cointegration equation derived from Bayesian VAR with Minnesota prior shows the optimal estimation. And the results have shown that the EKC for environmental quality in Gansu province was verified. It proved that it is possible for low-income economy to improve environmental quality rather than at the cost of being poorer. Technical effect and environmental regulations may play important roles for the decline of the curve. In addition, impulse response analysis indicates that the efforts to protect and restore environment means prospect of long-term earning. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
关键词	Environment Kuznets Curve Environmental quality Bayesian autoregression Minnesota prior
DOI	10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.03.023
收录类别	SCI ; EI ; SCOPUS ; SCIE ; SSCI
ISSN	1470-160X
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000356743800012
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
EI入藏号	20151800802569
原始文献类型	Article
EISSN	1872-7034
引用统计	被引频次：23[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.lzufe.edu.cn/handle/39EH0E1M/12829
专题	丝绸之路经济研究院
作者单位	1.Nanjing Univ Aeronaut & Astronaut, Res Ctr Soft Energy Sci, Nanjing 211106, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 2.Lanzhou Univ Finance & Econ, Res Ctr Quantitat Anal Econ Dev Gansu Prov, Lanzhou 730020, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Lijun,Zhou, Dequn,Wang, Yongyu,et al. An empirical study of the environmental Kuznets curve for environmental quality in Gansu province[J]. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS,2015,56:96-105.
APA	Wang, Lijun,Zhou, Dequn,Wang, Yongyu,&Zha, Donglan.(2015).An empirical study of the environmental Kuznets curve for environmental quality in Gansu province.ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS,56,96-105.
MLA	Wang, Lijun,et al."An empirical study of the environmental Kuznets curve for environmental quality in Gansu province".ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 56(2015):96-105.

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