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China Makes an Effort to Limit their Pollution


By: Jose T. Rodriguez

China has been growing exponentially over the last couple of decades, with this growth there has been an increase in their environmental pollution. While there have been efforts made by the Chinese government to help limit the amount of pollution out put, the situation still remains in a critical state. The increasing urbanization's impact on air and water pollution has had policies to try and reduce it, however, these policies to not account for other pollutants like smoke, dust, and general solid waste. X. Liu et. al used three different methods to measure the amount of environmental pollution. One method was to measure the amount by one type of pollutant, this could be carbon dioxide or nitrogen oxide. Another method was to measure by the usage of the environmental pollution guide that their government published. The last method used was to measure with the utilization of the comprehensive indicators that were calculated with statistical methods that like the entropy weight method. From these tests we can see that there is a positive direct impact on the environmental pollution by total population with no spatial spillover effect. When a look is taken at the economic growth, there is a negative and direct effect with a spatial spillover effect on the environment quality. So, in order to be able to develop in a sustainable way, the Chinese must implement even more coverage in their environmental pollution policies.

Graph showing the trend in a six year time difference in different provinces in their environmental pollution composite index. Liu. (2020).










References:

Liu, X., Sun, T., & Feng, Q. (2020). Dynamic spatial spillover effect of urbanization on environmental pollution in china considering the inertia characteristics of environmental pollution. Sus. Cities and Society, 53.


Comments

  1. M MendezOctober 21, 2020 at 5:06 PM

    The proposal to evaluate environmental policies with different factors, such as population size and economic growth, would drastically change policy. This type of analysis would lead us to a path of encouraging more sustainable economic development.

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