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: Received: 12 April 2023 / Approved: 13 April 2023 / Online: 13 April 2023 (07:49:02 CEST)
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Jin, R.; Ma, H. The Dual Effects of Environmental Regulation on Water Resources Utilization Performance. Preprints2023, 2023040307. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0307.v1
Jin, R.; Ma, H. The Dual Effects of Environmental Regulation on Water Resources Utilization Performance. Preprints 2023, 2023040307. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0307.v1
Jin, R.; Ma, H. The Dual Effects of Environmental Regulation on Water Resources Utilization Performance. Preprints2023, 2023040307. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0307.v1
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Jin, R., & Ma, H. (2023). The Dual Effects of Environmental Regulation on Water Resources Utilization Performance. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0307.v1
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Jin, R. and Hailiang Ma. 2023 "The Dual Effects of Environmental Regulation on Water Resources Utilization Performance" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202304.0307.v1
Abstract
Environmental regulation has dual effects on water resource utilization performance through various channels such as the "three red lines" and the "Porter hypothesis". Based on the detailed analysis of the impact path of environmental regulation on water resource utilization performance, the two-step system GMM method was adopted to test the dual effects of environmental regulation on water resource utilization performance by using panel data of 30 provinces and cities from 2004 to 2020. The results show that: (1) Environmental regulation has a significant direct impact on water resource utilization performance, and is currently in the stage of positive relationship of an inverted u-shaped relationship. (2) Environmental regulation has a significant indirect impact on water resource utilization Environmental regulation has dual effects on water resource utilization performance through various channels such as the "three-red lines" and the "Porter hypothesis". In accordance with a detailed examination of the influence path of environmental regulation on the performance of water resource utilization, the double effects of environmental regulation on water resource utilization performance were examined using panel statistics from 30 provinces and cities from 2004 to 2020 using the two-step system GMM approach. The results demonstrate that: (1) Environmental regulation has a direct effect on water resource utilization performance which is currently in the stage of the positive relationship of an inverted u-shaped relationship. (2) The influence of environmental regulation on water resource utilization performance through government intervention and industrial structure adjustment is indirect, among which government intervention can significantly improve water resource utilization performance, while the growth of the tertiary industry as a percentage can lower water resource utilization performance. (3) Both direct and indirect impacts indicate that enhancing the efficiency of the use of water resources is sustainable, and the water resource utilization performance of the preceding period had a major positive impact over the present phase. Therefore, the paper sets out a few policy suggestions, such as choosing reasonable environmental regulation tools, actively guiding the market-oriented reform with constraints, and upgrading the industrial structure in a green way.
Keywords
environmental regulation; water resource utilization performance; dual effects; two-step system GMM
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Water Science and Technology
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