Spatial impacts of biomass resource endowment on provincial green development efficiency

Shiwei Yu, Yali Zheng, Xing Hu and Kesheng Shu

Renewable Energy, 2022, vol. 189, issue C, 651-662

Abstract: Clarifying the role of biomass resource endowment in green development efficiency (GDE) is necessary for economic growth and environmental protection. This study constructed a unified theoretical analysis framework that incorporates biomass resource endowment and GDE. Based on the proposed theoretical framework and provincial data in China from 2007 to 2018, we then integrated super-efficiency slacks-based measure (SBM) with undesirable outputs and spatial econometric panel regression models to explore the effect of biomass resource endowment on GDE. We constructed four kinds of spatial weight matrices to verify the existence of the “resource curse” phenomenon in the field of GDE, with consideration for the spatial correlation of not only geographical distance but also economic distance. Our results showed that biomass resource endowment had a positive direct effect on regional GDE. A 1% increase in provincial biomass resource endowment, on average, directly led to a 0.092% increase in GDE. The impact of biomass technological innovation on GDE could be underestimated by 15% if the spatial spillover effects were ignored. Provincial biomass energy policy may not play its due role in promoting GDE because of the high cost of biomass energy.

Keywords: Biomass resource endowment; Green development efficiency; Spatial econometric model; Spatial spillover effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.03.051

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