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Industrial Agglomeration and Environmental Degradation: Empirical Evidence in C hinese Cities
Author(s) -
Sun Puyang,
Yuan Yan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0106.12101
Subject(s) - economies of agglomeration , environmental quality , economics , economic geography , environmental degradation , empirical evidence , tertiary sector of the economy , service (business) , quality (philosophy) , economy , economic growth , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
An array of cross‐country studies have investigated both theoretically and empirically the relationship between industrial agglomeration and environmental quality. However, the literature lacks evidence from within one particular country. This paper examines the impacts of industrial agglomeration on the shape of the standard environmental K uznets curve using 287 prefecture‐level cities in C hina over the period 2003–2008. Our results confirm its significant impacts on both the slope and the height of the environmental K uznets curve. Furthermore, we find that cities with higher levels of manufacturing agglomeration are associated with more serious environmental degradation while cities with higher levels of service agglomeration show a tendency of higher environmental quality.