Unequal Exchange of Air Pollution and Economic Benefits Embodied in China’s Exports

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00102626" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00102626 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b05651" target="_blank" >https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b05651</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b05651" target="_blank" >10.1021/acs.est.7b05651</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unequal Exchange of Air Pollution and Economic Benefits Embodied in China’s Exports

Original language description

As the world’s factory, China has enjoyed huge economic benefits from international export but also suffered severe environmental consequences. Most studies investigating unequal environmental exchange associated with trade took China as a homogeneous entity ignoring considerable inequality and outsourcing of pollution within China. This paper traces the regional mismatch of export-induced economic benefits and environmental costs along national supply chains by using the latest multiregional input-output model and emission inventory for 2012. The results indicate that approximately 56% of the national GDP induced by exports has been received by developed coastal regions, while about 72% of air pollution embodied in national exports, measured as aggregated atmospheric pollutant equivalents (APE), has been mainly incurred by less developed central and western regions. For each yuan of export-induced GDP, developed regions only incurred 0.4-0.6 g APE emissions, whereas less developed regions from western or central China had to suffer 4-8 times the amount of emissions. This is due to poorer regions providing lower value added and higher emission-intensive inputs and having lower environmental standards and less efficient technologies. Our results may pave a way to mitigate the unequal relationship between developed and less developed regions from the perspective of environment-economy nexus

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Science & Technology

ISSN

0013-936X

e-ISSN

1520-5851

Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

3888-3898

UT code for WoS article

000429385700007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85044990986