The Economic Value of Water Ecology in Sponge City Construction Based on a Ternary Interactive System

Wenzhao Zhou, Yufei Wang, Xi Wang, Peng Gao and Ciyun Lin ()
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Wenzhao Zhou: School of Management, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
Yufei Wang: Economic Information Center of Jilin Province, Changchun 130061, China
Xi Wang: Economic Research Institute of Jilin Academy of Social Sciences, Changchun 130032, China
Peng Gao: Qingdao Transportation Public Service Center, Qingdao Municipal Transport Bureau, Qingdao 266061, China
Ciyun Lin: School of Transportation, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 23, 1-15

Abstract: Ecological water resources occupy a vital position in the national economy; without sufficient ecological water resources, the construction and economic development of sponge cities would be seriously restricted. Appropriately, the Chinese government proposed that sponge city planning should be carried out in accordance with the number of available ecological water resources. The government therefore put forward the method of conservation and intensification to solve the problem of water shortage. This paper highlights the interactions between ecological water resources, sponge cities, and economic development in northern China, starting with the interaction and mechanism of action that concerns ecological water resource utilization, sponge cities, and economic development. In the empirical test, the dynamic changes of the three indicators were analyzed empirically using the panel data vector autoregression method, and the dynamic relationship of each factor was measured using generalized moment estimation. It was found that ecological water resources are a key factor in promoting regional economic development, and the relationship between ecological water resources and sponge cities is both supportive and constraining; therefore, the constraints that ecological water resources place on sponge cities also indirectly affects economic development. To disconnect the use of water and ecological resources from economic development, it is necessary to note the following: the feedback effect of economic development and the resolution of the contradiction between sponge cities, water, and ecological resource use.

Keywords: ternary interactive system; sponge city; water ecology; economic value (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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