The Threshold Effect of Urban Levels on Environmental Collaborative Governance: An Empirical Analysis from Chinese Cities

Jie Fan, Zhuo Shen and Zhengwen Wang
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Jie Fan: School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Zhuo Shen: Information Institute of The Ministry of Emergency Management of PRC, Beijing 100029, China
Zhengwen Wang: School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: Taking 286 cities above the prefecture level in China as the research object and the research period from 2003 to 2019, through the two-way fixed effect model, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of the city level on environmental collaborative governance. The threshold regression model is used to reveal the nonlinear relationship between urban levels and environmental collaborative governance and to analyze the phase characteristics of different urban levels for environmental collaborative governance. The results show that: (1) The city level has a significant role in promoting collaborative environmental governance. (2) The regression results of the three major sections show that the urban level promotion in the eastern region has the strongest promoting effect on the coordinated environmental governance, and the western region is the weakest. (3) The impact of the city level on collaborative environmental governance is nonlinear. When the city scale reaches a certain critical point, its impact on the collaborative environmental governance tends to intensify.

Keywords: environmental collaborative governance; city hierarchy; threshold regression model; city scale (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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