Demand-side and traditional environmental regulations in green construction: the moderating role of CNSC and SOE intensity

Qi Wang and Junqi Liu ()
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Qi Wang: Southwest Jiaotong University
Junqi Liu: Southwest Jiaotong University

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2023, vol. 25, issue 7, No 43, 6897-6938

Abstract: Abstract The greening building and construction (B&C) sector is an emerging research topic in the energy and environment field. Employing China’s provincial panel data during 2008–2017 and the SBM-DEA model and regression methods, this study develops a conceptual model to explore the relationships between two types of environmental regulations and green construction. The moderating role of China’s national sustainable community (CNSC) intensity and state-owned enterprise (SOE) intensity is considered based on China’s characteristics. We obtain three major findings: (1) both traditional environmental regulations (command-and-control) and demand-side environmental regulation are positively correlated with green construction, which emphasizes the effectiveness of demand-side environmental regulation. (2) CNSC intensity negatively moderates the relationships between these two types of environmental regulations and green construction, which reflects the shortage of CNSCs in the building and construction sector. (3) SOE intensity negatively moderates the relationship between traditional environmental regulations and green construction while positively moderating the relationship between demand-side environmental regulation and green construction. Regarding this result, we conduct a comparative explanation from the perspective of “addition and subtraction of economic interests”. Based upon the above findings, policy-makers are provided with the following recommendations in this study for realizing sustainable development goals in the B&C sector: (1) adjusting the regulation stringency of market-based environmental regulation on the B&C sector; (2) encouraging the development of environmental organizations; (3) investing more effort into the green public procurement of works (GPP-works); (4) adding green construction evaluation indicators to CNSC certification standards; and (5) balancing GPP-works’ resource preferences for different ownership construction enterprises.

Keywords: Energy policy; Environmental regulations; Green public procurement; State-owned enterprises; China national sustainable communities; Green construction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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