The Improvement Path for Regionally Coordinated Green Development: Evidence from Social Network Analysis

Yang Zhou; Hankun Wang; Zuqiang Wang; Xiang Dai

doi:10.3390/ijerph191811703

The Improvement Path for Regionally Coordinated Green Development: Evidence from Social Network Analysis

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Sep 16;19(18):11703. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191811703.

Authors

Yang Zhou^{1

2

3}, Hankun Wang⁴, Zuqiang Wang^{1

2

3}, Xiang Dai⁵

Affiliations

¹ The Party School of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Hangzhou 311121, China.
² Zhejiang Research Center of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Hangzhou 311121, China.
³ Zhejiang Provincial Party School Research Center for Comprehensively Strictly Governing the Party, Hangzhou 311121, China.
⁴ Department of Public & International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.
⁵ College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.

Abstract

Regionally coordinated green development has been widely documented in China. However, most previous studies have investigated it from the perspective of linearity, while the spatial correlation of green development is nonlinear. Based on 48 cities in Bohai Rim, this study used a social network analysis to measure the spatial network, with an emphasis on the internal structure of regional green development, and analyzed the driving factors of regionally coordinated green development from the perspective of nonlinearity. We found that large cities have formed a "siphon effect" and that the polarization of eco-efficiency has become increasingly serious. There are limited connections, some of which are redundant, in the spatial network of green development, while the stability of the network is strong. Additionally, reducing the differences in environmental regulation approaches among cities can have a positive impact on the spatial correlation and spillover effect of green development, thereby promoting regionally coordinated green development among cities in the Bohai Rim.

Keywords: environment regulation; regionally coordinated green development; social network analysis; spatial nonlinearity effects.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

China
Cities
Economic Development
Efficiency*
Social Network Analysis*

Grants and funding

This study was supported by Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Planning Project (Research on the Driving Mechanism and Path of Two-Carbon Targets on Eco-Efficiency).