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Can Industrial Co-Agglomeration between Producer Services and Manufacturing Reduce Carbon Intensity in China?
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 15, p 4024 (2019), Sustainability, Volume 11, Issue 15
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2019.
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Abstract
- Climate change poses unprecedented challenges for humanity. Reducing carbon intensity is an inevitable choice for tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development. China has made some emission reduction commitments in the international community to promote the decoupling of China&rsquo<br />s economic development from carbon emissions. The realization of the industrial structure from the &ldquo<br />single-wheel drive&rdquo<br />of the manufacturing to the &ldquo<br />two-wheel drive&rdquo<br />economic development model of the service industry and the manufacturing has become a key measure to achieve China&rsquo<br />s economic intensive development. According to resource misallocation situation in different regions, this paper explored the impact of the collaborative agglomeration between producer services and manufacturing (hereinafter referred to as industrial co-agglomeration) on carbon intensity. The research results show that the carbon intensity is decreasing year by year, and the degree of intensification of China&rsquo<br />s economic growth continues to increase. Moreover, the effect of industrial co-agglomeration to promote carbon emission reduction is significantly limited by the degree of misallocated resources, and there is a double threshold effect. Specifically, in areas where resource allocation is reasonable, industrial co-agglomeration can produce significant agglomeration effects and promote carbon intensity reduction. Once the degree of misallocated resources exceeds a threshold level, the agglomeration effect will turn into a crowding effect, resulting in an inability to reduce carbon intensity. We comprehensively analyzed the driving factors for reducing carbon intensity and proposed policy pathways for achieving China&rsquo<br />s carbon intensity target.
- Subjects :
- China
Resource (biology)
carbon intensity
Natural resource economics
Geography, Planning and Development
Climate change
TJ807-830
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
0502 economics and business
resource misallocation
GE1-350
050207 economics
Tertiary sector of the economy
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Driving factors
Sustainable development
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Economies of agglomeration
05 social sciences
threshold model
Environmental sciences
Greenhouse gas
industrial co-agglomeration
Resource allocation
Business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d843a22a2c992b5fb49edf393993ccae