Is reducing fossil fuel intensity important for environmental management and ensuring ecological efficiency in China?
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Date
2023
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Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd
Access Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Abstract
Since China is a country with high environmental pollution, researchers have intensively studied China's environmental problems using various environmental indicators such as carbon emissions and ecological foot-print. Unlike previous literature, this study analyzes the effects of economic growth, globalization, foreign direct investment, and fossil energy intensity on ecological efficiency in China. As an innovation to the literature, the study examines the Chinese ecosystem simultaneously with its economic and environmental aspects by focusing on ecological efficiency. To this end, the study applies dynamic autoregressive distributed lag (DARDL) simu-lations and kernel-based regularized least squares (KRLS) methods for the period from 1990 to 2018. The results of the DARDL simulations show that globalization, and economic growth enhance ecological efficiency in China. The findings also demonstrate that both foreign direct investment and fossil fuel intensity have a negative impact on environmental quality in China. Based on these results, the study suggests that the Chinese government should adopt policies to channel foreign direct investment into environmentally friendly production, reduce fossil fuel intensity, and improve ecological efficiency by making use of environmentally friendly technologies provided by globalization and economic development.
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Keywords
China, Ecological efficiency, Fossil energy intensity, Globalization, Dynamic ARDL simulations
Journal or Series
Journal of Environmental Management
WoS Q Value
Q1
Scopus Q Value
Q1
Volume
329
