Explores four topics within the broad area of trade, industrial activity and the environment in China - the hypothesis of pollution paradise, the influencing factors of industrial pollution in China, the effects of industrial specialisation, and industrial spatial distribution on the concentration of pollutants.
Explores four topics within the broad area of trade, industrial activity and the environment in China. Firstly, based on the hypothesis of pollution paradise, this book discusses whether China attracts pollution-intensive industries from developed countries because of its relatively loose environmental policies and becomes a ""pollution paradise"". Secondly, based on the demand and supply of environmental products, this book discusses the influencing factors of industrial pollution in China, and finds that energy consumption, human capital intensity, productivity and R&D investment are the most significant factors. The third and fourth topics respectively discuss the effects of industrial specialisation and industrial spatial distribution on the concentration of pollutants.
The results show that both of them have significant positive effects on the concentration of pollutants in specific areas of China.
About the Author
Wu Shanshan holds a doctorate degree in economics and is currently an associate professor at the School of Economics of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Her research fields are environmental economics, enterprise microeconomics and international economics. The author has published many papers in SCI/SSCI English journals such as
China Economic Review, and won the National Natural Science Fund and the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education.