Study on Urbanization Level, Urban Primacy and Industrial Water Utilization Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
| العنوان: | Study on Urbanization Level, Urban Primacy and Industrial Water Utilization Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt |
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| المؤلفون: | Hongwen Jia, Zhu Fu, Xuhui Ding |
| المصدر: | Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 23, p 6571 (2019) Sustainability Volume 11 Issue 23 |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Natural resource economics, 020209 energy, Industrial production, Geography, Planning and Development, Population, lcsh:TJ807-830, lcsh:Renewable energy sources, 02 engineering and technology, Foreign direct investment, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 01 natural sciences, Urban primacy, Urbanization, land urbanization, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Data envelopment analysis, Tobit model, education, urban primacy, lcsh:Environmental sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, yangtze river economic belt, lcsh:GE1-350, education.field_of_study, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, industrial water utilization efficiency, lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants, population urbanization, lcsh:TD194-195, Scale (social sciences), Environmental science |
| الوصف: | Considering the undesirable output, this paper adopted the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model with the slack variable and super efficiency improvement, to measure industrial water utilization efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The paper also creatively introduces urbanization level and urban primacy into driver factors&rsquo estimation by stochastic and fixed Tobit models, exploring how urbanization characteristics affected the water utilization in regional industrial production. The results showed that industrial water efficiency has maintained an upward trend during the whole period, while most central and western provinces have shown a U-shaped trend of decreasing first and then rising. However, the industrial water utilization efficiency of central regions is the lowest, and the eastern regions are the highest, catching up with western regions. Utilization efficiency shows an overall convergence during the research period from 2005 to 2017. Regarding the factors&rsquo estimation, both population urbanization and land urbanization negatively affected industrial water utilization efficiency, particularly blind expansion and disorderly development. The urban primacy meant the unbalance of urbanization, which would lead to urban diseases and pollution transfer, while the effects of urban primacy depended on the urbanization level. However, the utilization efficiency of industrial water did not become better automatically along with urbanization development therefore, the scale and speed of urbanization should be scientifically formulated. The effects of the level of economic development, the advanced industrial structure, and the level of foreign investment are significantly negative. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2071-1050 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::ef743c0755f75c2c14c4ffd950656890 https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/23/6571 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....ef743c0755f75c2c14c4ffd950656890 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20711050 |
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