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Poverty alleviation, environmental protection, and healthcare are the three biggest challenges for the Sustainable Development Goals. However, they are also inter-linked. Therefore, it is imperative to achieve these goals in a compatible manner at the national level. Given the growing consumption caused by poverty alleviation in China, this paper investigates potential impacts of poverty alleviation on the environment and health based on an input–output approach, air quality estimation model, and health loss assessment. Due to data limitations, the base year was set as 2012. Nevertheless, the scientific value of the paper is that it offers an important supplement for a preliminary estimation on a macro level. We find that poverty alleviation could be a substantial threat to the environment and health from a consumption-based perspective, and this trade-off can be explained by the uneven pollution footprints per capita among different income groups. From a policy perspective, the government should promote green production, green lifestyles, and healthcare when reducing poverty.
Su-Mei Chen; Jia-Jia Ou; Ling-Yun He. The Environmental and Health Impacts of Poverty Alleviation in China: From a Consumption-Based Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1784 .
AMA StyleSu-Mei Chen, Jia-Jia Ou, Ling-Yun He. The Environmental and Health Impacts of Poverty Alleviation in China: From a Consumption-Based Perspective. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):1784.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSu-Mei Chen; Jia-Jia Ou; Ling-Yun He. 2021. "The Environmental and Health Impacts of Poverty Alleviation in China: From a Consumption-Based Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 1784.
Pollution emissions impose serious social negative externalities, especially in terms of public health. To reduce pollution emissions cost-effectively, the marginal abatement costs (MACs) of pollution emissions must be determined. Since the industrial sectors are the essential pillars of China’s economic growth, as well as leading energy consumers and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emitters, estimating MACs of SO2 emissions at the industrial level can provide valuable information for all abatement efforts. This paper tries to address the critical and essential issue in pollution abatement: How do we determine the MACs of pollution emissions in China? This paper first quantifies the SO2 emission contribution of different industrial sectors in the Chinese economy by an Input-Output method and then estimates MACs of SO2 for industrial sectors at the national level, provincial level, and sectoral level by the shadow price theory. Our results show that six sectors (e.g., the Mining and Washing of Coal sector) should be covered in the Chinese pollution emission trading system. We have also found that the lowest SO2 shadow price is 2000 Yuan/ton at the national level, and that shadow prices should be set differently at the provincial level. Our empirical study has several important policy implications, e.g., the estimated MACs may be used as a pricing benchmark through emission allowance allocation. In this paper, the MACs of industrial sectors are calculated from the national, provincial and sectoral levels; therefore, we provide an efficient framework to track the complex relationship between sectors and provinces.
Ling-Yun He; Jia-Jia Ou. Pollution Emissions, Environmental Policy, and Marginal Abatement Costs. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2017, 14, 1509 .
AMA StyleLing-Yun He, Jia-Jia Ou. Pollution Emissions, Environmental Policy, and Marginal Abatement Costs. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2017; 14 (12):1509.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLing-Yun He; Jia-Jia Ou. 2017. "Pollution Emissions, Environmental Policy, and Marginal Abatement Costs." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 14, no. 12: 1509.