A causality analysis of public participation, government regulation and environment pollutions using regional panel data

• Authors: Wen-Bin Peng , Kun Tian , Yin-Hua Tian , Xiang Guo-Cheng
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Utilizing the regional data of China covering 29 provinces and municipalities during 1990-2009, this article outlines a systematic approach to investigate the relations between public participation, government regulation and environment pollutions. Results show that government regulation influences environment pollutions while environment pollutions have no influence on government regulation in the short term. Besides, environment pollutions and public participation have no influence on each other. In the long term, there exists the granger causality among public participation, government regulation and environment pollutions. Our results also show that improving the public participation’s ability in environmental protection and strengthening government regulation’s intensity are the basic measures to improve China's environmental pollution in the long run.

Keywords

EN

public participation; government regulation; environment pollutions; panel causality analysis

Discipline

• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 53-56

Dates

published

2011-08-12

Contributors

author

Wen-Bin Peng

• Faculty of Business School, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

author

Kun Tian

author

Yin-Hua Tian

author

Xiang Guo-Cheng

• Prague Development Center, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2011.30