Is International Trade an Influence Factor to the Pearl River Delta's Water EKC

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10.2991/icseee-16.2016.90How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Environment, Water Quality, EKC, International Trade, Economic Growth

Abstract

Usually, international trade is thought as an influential factor to environment, but its effects on interrelationship of environment and economic growth is ignored. In order to investigate how international trade changes this relationship, the paper presents a model of endogenous Environment Kuznets Curve (EKC) model in which international trade is supposed to influence pollution through exportation and importation structure change. Income, environment and energy are grouped as endogenous variables. Simultaneous equations defining the dynamic interrelationship among these endogenous variables are estimated by feasible general least square estimation method (FGLS) and two stages least square estimation method (2SLS) with data from the Pearl River Delta region, China. The result shows that export and import structure has intense influence on the EKC turning point, environmental elasticity, maximum pollution value and curve slope. Structural export increase or import decrease is favorable to environment-economic dynamic relationship and shift EKC to better position.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hui Zuo
AU  - Danxiang Ai
AU  - Yuling Lin
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Is International Trade an Influence Factor to the Pearl River Delta's Water EKC
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 5th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Engineering (ICSEEE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 482
EP  - 490
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseee-16.2016.90
DO  - 10.2991/icseee-16.2016.90
ID  - Zuo2016/12
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