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

Yang Zhou (), Hankun Wang, Zuqiang Wang and Xiang Dai
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Yang Zhou: The Party School of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Hangzhou 311121, China
Hankun Wang: Department of Public & International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Zuqiang Wang: The Party School of Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Hangzhou 311121, China
Xiang Dai: College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-14

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; social network analysis; spatial nonlinearity effects; regionally coordinated green development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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