1. 南京大学环境学院, 污染控制与资源化研究国家重点实验室, 中国 南京 210023; 2. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan; 3. Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Investigating the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for SO2emissions in Jiangsu Province: A semi- parametric panel data analysis
WANG Yuan1, WANG Chun-chun1, ZHAO Jing1, QIAN Yi-xiao1, KUBOTA Jumpei2, HE Yan-min3, ZHU Xiao-dong1
1. State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China; 2. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto 603-8047, Japan; 3. Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Abstract:The paper concentrated on a Jiangsu Province context and attempted to explicitly investigate the impacts of economic growth and urbanization on sulfur dioxide emissions through examination on the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve. Within the Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology framework, this was first study to simultaneously explore the income/urbanization and sulfur dioxide emission nexus, using panel data together with semi-parametric panel fixed effects regression. The dataset was referred to a city-level panel of Jiangsu Province spanning the period 1991~2013. With this information, the study found evidence in support of an inverted U-shaped curve relationship between economic growth and sulfur dioxide emissions, but little evidence supporting a similar inference for urbanization and those emissions. Existence of the income-sulfur dioxide emission environmental Kuznets curve implied that the economic growth vs. sulfur dioxide emissions dilemma can be resolved while income continues to increase. Also, these findings contributed to advancing the emerging literature on the development-pollution nexus.
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