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Effect of Energy Utilization and Economic Growth on the Ecological Environment in the Yellow River Basin

In the 21st century, problems relating to energy, economy, and the environment have become increasingly severe across the world, and critical issues around environmental pollution, ecological imbalance, and an energy crisis have emerged. The Yellow River basin is an important ecological barrier, eco...

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Autores principales: Lu, Chenyu, Liu, Wei, Huang, Ping, Wang, Yueju, Tang, Xianglong
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767712
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032345
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author Lu, Chenyu
Liu, Wei
Huang, Ping
Wang, Yueju
Tang, Xianglong
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Huang, Ping
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description In the 21st century, problems relating to energy, economy, and the environment have become increasingly severe across the world, and critical issues around environmental pollution, ecological imbalance, and an energy crisis have emerged. The Yellow River basin is an important ecological barrier, economic region, and energy base in Northern China. Environmental pollution in the Yellow River basin has become increasingly problematic, especially since the reform and opening up of China, along with the rapid development of the industrial economy and mining for energy resources. In this study, 64 of the 73 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River basin were selected as the research object, including 18 cities in the downstream region, 26 cities in the midstream region, and 20 cities in the upstream region. The data used in this study were from 2004 to 2019. On the basis of temporal variation and spatial differentiation of the three factors of economy, energy, and environment, the impulse response function and the generalized method of moments (GMM) were adopted to evaluate the effects of energy utilization and economic growth on the ecological environment. Their roles in affecting the ecological environment were analyzed along with the underlying mechanisms. Overall, energy utilization, economic growth, and ecological environment are in good condition, showing a steady upward trend. Regional differences still exist, but the gap is gradually narrowing. There are some differences in the impulse response of the ecological environment to the economic growth and energy utilization in the upstream, midstream, and downstream regions of the Yellow River basin. The effect is leveled out or weakened in the middle and later phases of the impact. Compared with the downstream and upstream regions, economic growth and energy utilization in the midstream regions have less impact on the ecological environment. The two factors of energy utilization potential and economic potential have significant positive impacts on the ecological environment. The current situation of energy utilization has to some extent a positive impact on the ecological environment. Economic scale has a certain negative impact on the ecological environment.
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spelling pubmed-99163932023-02-11 Effect of Energy Utilization and Economic Growth on the Ecological Environment in the Yellow River Basin Lu, Chenyu Liu, Wei Huang, Ping Wang, Yueju Tang, Xianglong Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In the 21st century, problems relating to energy, economy, and the environment have become increasingly severe across the world, and critical issues around environmental pollution, ecological imbalance, and an energy crisis have emerged. The Yellow River basin is an important ecological barrier, economic region, and energy base in Northern China. Environmental pollution in the Yellow River basin has become increasingly problematic, especially since the reform and opening up of China, along with the rapid development of the industrial economy and mining for energy resources. In this study, 64 of the 73 prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River basin were selected as the research object, including 18 cities in the downstream region, 26 cities in the midstream region, and 20 cities in the upstream region. The data used in this study were from 2004 to 2019. On the basis of temporal variation and spatial differentiation of the three factors of economy, energy, and environment, the impulse response function and the generalized method of moments (GMM) were adopted to evaluate the effects of energy utilization and economic growth on the ecological environment. Their roles in affecting the ecological environment were analyzed along with the underlying mechanisms. Overall, energy utilization, economic growth, and ecological environment are in good condition, showing a steady upward trend. Regional differences still exist, but the gap is gradually narrowing. There are some differences in the impulse response of the ecological environment to the economic growth and energy utilization in the upstream, midstream, and downstream regions of the Yellow River basin. The effect is leveled out or weakened in the middle and later phases of the impact. Compared with the downstream and upstream regions, economic growth and energy utilization in the midstream regions have less impact on the ecological environment. The two factors of energy utilization potential and economic potential have significant positive impacts on the ecological environment. The current situation of energy utilization has to some extent a positive impact on the ecological environment. Economic scale has a certain negative impact on the ecological environment. MDPI 2023-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9916393/ /pubmed/36767712 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032345 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_fullStr Effect of Energy Utilization and Economic Growth on the Ecological Environment in the Yellow River Basin
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title_short Effect of Energy Utilization and Economic Growth on the Ecological Environment in the Yellow River Basin
title_sort effect of energy utilization and economic growth on the ecological environment in the yellow river basin
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9916393/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032345
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