Evolution and Impact of the Global Trade Network for Strategic Environmental Products

Shuanglei Xu, Zhixi Liu () and Ik Joong Youn ()
Additional contact information
Shuanglei Xu: School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, P. R. China
Zhixi Liu: ��Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA
Ik Joong Youn: ��Hallym University of Graduate Studies, Seoul, South Korea

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM), 2025, vol. 27, issue 01, 1-42

Abstract: Amid global economic integration and changes in international patterns, strategic emerging industries have become the core driving force for high-quality economic development and industrial structure upgrading. Studying the structural evolution of the global trade network of strategic environmental products and its influence mechanism can help reveal the changes in the industrial division of labour and guide the formulation of green trade policies. Based on this, this paper analyses the evolution of trade networks of products in the fields including energy-saving technologies, new materials, renewable energy, etc., using social network analysis and an exponential random graph model with 50 countries around the world as the research object from 2010 to 2022. It is found that the global trade network of strategic environmental products has been affected by the decoupling of the international situation, and trade links have been reduced, forming three major independent groups, with a stable core-edge structure, and the United States, Germany, and China playing an important pivotal role. Factors such as economic fundamentals, R&D expenditures, and trade openness have a positive impact on network formation, while external factors and internal structural features of the network also influence network evolution.

Keywords: Strategic environment products; international trade; social network analysis; exponential random graph model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1464333224500169
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:jeapmx:v:27:y:2025:i:01:n:s1464333224500169

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S1464333224500169

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM) is currently edited by Thomas Fischer

More articles in Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management (JEAPM) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().