Air quality improvement in response to intensified control strategies in Beijing during 2013–2019

W Li, L Shao, W Wang, H Li, X Wang, Y Li, W Li… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Beijing's air pollution has become of increasing concern in recent years. The central and
municipal governments have issued a series of laws, regulations, and strategies to improve …

The effects of population aging, life expectancy, unemployment rate, population density, per capita GDP, urbanization on per capita carbon emissions

Q Wang, L Li - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2021 - Elsevier
Human-induced carbon dioxide emissions (CO 2) is the main source of global warming. This
work is aimed to systematically explore the effects of human factors on CO 2. To this end …

Disentangling the complex impacts of urban digital transformation and environmental pollution: Evidence from smart city pilots in China

D Wu, Y Xie, S Lyu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Existing studies are mixed about whether smart city construction (SCC) can alleviate urban
environmental pollution. This study takes three batches of smart city pilots implemented by …

Environment, social and governance research of infrastructure investment: A literature review

X Qi, B Wang, Q Gao - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
The level of infrastructure is a crucial factor affecting national future economic growth, as
well as playing a significant role in shaping both the present and future society and …

Spatio-temporal effects of urbanization on CO2 emissions: Evidences from 268 Chinese cities

J Xu, J Wang, R Li, X Yang - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
To comprehensively capture the spatio-temporal effects of urbanization on CO 2 emissions,
we develop an innovative hybrid spatial model (SLX-GTWR) that incorporates spatial …

How does the low-carbon city pilot policy affect the synergistic governance efficiency of carbon and smog? Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Z Li, T Bai, C Tang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
In the context of the increasingly significant constraints of climate change and smog pollution
on high-quality economic development in China, it is important to explore the impact of a low …

Environmental regulation, economic growth and air pollution: Panel threshold analysis for OECD countries

X Ouyang, Q Shao, X Zhu, Q He, C Xiang… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Particles with a diameter of< 2.5 μm (PM 2.5) have serious adverse-effects on human health,
which have caused widespread public concern in recent decades. Currently, most of the …

The impact of multiple dimensions of urbanization on CO2 emissions: a spatial and threshold analysis of panel data on China's prefecture-level cities

F Yao, H Zhu, M Wang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The extant literature has debated the impact of urbanization on CO 2 emissions with a focus
on population urbanization but has paid little attention to the other dimensions of …

Structural transformation of manufacturing, natural resource dependence, and carbon emissions reduction: Evidence of a threshold effect from China

Z Li, S Shao, X Shi, Y Sun, X Zhang - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural resource endowment has a significant influence on manufacturing structure which in
turn influences CO 2 emissions. This paper investigates the effect of the rationalization and …

Identifying the role of green financial development played in carbon intensity: evidence from China

J Huang, L An, W Peng, L Guo - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Existing studies have explored the effect of green finance on carbon emissions. However,
few studies have distinguished green financial efficiency from scale, which are crucial …