Does the Government’s Environmental Attention Affect Ambient Pollution? Empirical Research on Chinese Cities
Open Access
- 10 March 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Sustainability
- Vol. 14 (6), 3242
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063242
Abstract
Environmental pollution has attracted growing government attention. We employ a series of panel data regression models to measure and analyze the impact of environmental attention of 284 prefecture-level municipal governments on ambient pollution in China. The results show that: (1) The improvement of government environmental attention can curb ambient pollution. (2) The impact of government environmental attention on ambient pollution is heterogeneous in the difference of regional and local environmental pollution severity. (3) Government environmental attention inhibits ambient pollution through green development and industrial upgrading. The conclusions of this paper provide evidence and implications for environmental regulation in developing countries and cities.Keywords
Funding Information
- Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Hunan Institute of Technology (2020HY019, 2020JJ5122)
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