Spatiotemporal Interaction and Socioeconomic Determinants of Rural Energy Poverty in China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Data and Methodology
2.1. Indicators and Data Sources
2.2. ESTDA Analysis Framework
2.2.1. LISA Time Path
2.2.2. Spatiotemporal Transition
2.2.3. Spatiotemporal Interaction Visualization
2.3. Geographical Detector
3. Results
3.1. Rural Energy Poverty in China
3.2. Spatiotemporal Interaction of Energy Poverty in China
3.2.1. Time Path Change of Rural Energy Poverty
3.2.2. Spatiotemporal Transition of Rural Energy Poverty
3.2.3. Spatiotemporal Network of Rural Energy Poverty
3.3. Socioeconomic Determinants of Rural Energy Poverty
3.3.1. Factor Analysis of Determinants of Rural Energy Poverty
3.3.2. Interaction Analysis of Determinants of Rural Energy Poverty
4. Conclusions, Policy Implications, and Limitations
4.1. Conclusions
- (1)
- From 2000 to 2015, China’s rural energy poverty had obvious volatility, and the overall trend was “rising first and then declining”. The evolution trend of the energy poverty of the three regions tended to be consistent with that of the whole country, and formed a “central–west–east” stepwise decreasing pattern. Since 2010, China’s rural energy poverty has been alleviated; however, it continues to show a significant overall imbalance, and there is a spatial polarization phenomenon of regional rural energy poverty.
- (2)
- There was a dynamic local spatial dependence and a volatile rural energy poverty evolution process in China, and the spatial agglomeration of energy poverty had obvious path dependence and locked spatial features. The provinces with negative connections were mainly concentrated in central and western China. Anhui and Henan, Inner Mongolia and Jilin, Jilin and Heilongjiang, Hebei and Shanxi, and Liaoning and Jilin constituted strong synergistic growth areas. Carrying out coordinated poverty reduction should become the focus of sustainable energy poverty reduction in the future.
- (3)
- All of the five drivers explored in this study had significant impacts on rural energy poverty. In the long run, the disposable income of rural residents had the greatest determinant power on rural energy poverty, followed by GDP per capita, education level of rural labor, regulatory agency, and energy investment. In addition, the interaction results revealed that interactions between all explanatory variables showed bi-enhanced interactive and nonlinear enhanced effects on rural energy poverty in China.
4.2. Policy Implications
4.3. Limitations and Prospects
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Data Type | Data Name | Data Description | Source |
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Rural energy poverty | Energy access | Per capita domestic electricity consumption (kwh), per capita liquefied petroleum gas (kg), per capita total gas output of biogas digester (m3), per capita solar water heater (m3), per capita solar room (m3) | China Rural Statistical Yearbook (2001–2016), China Rural Energy Yearbook (2001–2016), China Energy Statistics Yearbook (2001–2016) |
Energy service | Clean cookware penetration rate (kitchen ventilator (one for every 100 households), solar cooker (one for every 100 households)) | ||
Socioeconomic factors | Economic development level | GDP per capita (GDPPC) (yuan) | China Statistical Yearbook (2001–2016) |
Income level of rural residents | Disposable income of rural residents (INC) (yuan) | China Rural Statistical Yearbook (2001–2016) | |
Education level of residents | Education level of rural labor (ERL) (year/person) | ||
Energy investment level | Investment in fixed assets in state-owned economic energy industry (IFA) (108 yuan) | ||
Energy management level | Regulatory agency (RA) (number) |
Type | Meaning | Transition Characteristics |
---|---|---|
Ⅰ | Only local rural energy poverty in transition | LLt→HLt+1, LHt→HHt+1, HLt→LLt+1, HHt→LHt+1 |
Ⅱ | Only neighborhood rural energy poverty in transition | LLt→LHt+1, LHt→LLt+1, HLt→HHt+1, HHt→HLt+1 |
Ⅲ | Both local and neighborhood rural energy poverty in transition | LLt→HHt+1, LHt→HLt+1, HLt→LHt+1, HHt→LLt+1 |
Ⅳ | The local and neighborhood rural energy poverty as stable | LLt→LLt+1, LHt→LHt+1, HLt→HLt+1, HHt→HHt+1 |
Period of Time | t/t + 1 | HH | LH | LL | HL | Type | n | Proportion |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000–2005 | HH | 0.867 | 0.083 | 0.000 | 0.050 | Ⅰ | 13 | 8.67% |
LH | 0.139 | 0.722 | 0.139 | 0.000 | Ⅱ | 12 | 8.00% | |
LL | 0.000 | 0.040 | 0.920 | 0.040 | Ⅲ | 0 | 0.00% | |
HL | 0.103 | 0.000 | 0.069 | 0.828 | Ⅳ | 125 | 83.33% | |
2005–2010 | HH | 0.958 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.042 | Ⅰ | 7 | 4.67% |
LH | 0.042 | 0.875 | 0.083 | 0.000 | Ⅱ | 10 | 6.67% | |
LL | 0.053 | 0.079 | 0.816 | 0.053 | Ⅲ | 2 | 1.33% | |
HL | 0.118 | 0.000 | 0.235 | 0.647 | Ⅳ | 131 | 87.33% | |
2010–2015 | HH | 0.973 | 0.014 | 0.000 | 0.014 | Ⅰ | 5 | 3.33% |
LH | 0.125 | 0.813 | 0.000 | 0.063 | Ⅱ | 2 | 1.33% | |
LL | 0.000 | 0.023 | 0.977 | 0.000 | Ⅲ | 2 | 1.33% | |
HL | 0.000 | 0.059 | 0.118 | 0.824 | Ⅳ | 141 | 94.00% | |
2000–2015 | HH | 0.937 | 0.029 | 0.000 | 0.034 | Ⅰ | 25 | 5.56% |
LH | 0.105 | 0.789 | 0.092 | 0.013 | Ⅱ | 24 | 5.33% | |
LL | 0.019 | 0.047 | 0.906 | 0.028 | Ⅲ | 4 | 0.89% | |
HL | 0.079 | 0.016 | 0.127 | 0.778 | Ⅳ | 397 | 88.22% |
2000 | 2005 | ||||||||||
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GDPPC | INC | ERL | IFA | RA | GDPPC | INC | ERL | IFA | RA | ||
GDPPC | 0.543 | GDPPC | 0.322 | ||||||||
INC | 0.732 | 0.431 | INC | 0.557 | 0.357 | ||||||
ERL | 0.840 | 0.600 | 0.297 | ERL | 0.649 | 0.631 | 0.535 | ||||
IFA | 0.749 | 0.740 | 0.506 | 0.013 | IFA | 0.717 | 0.664 | 0.892 | 0.358 | ||
RA | 0.710 | 0.733 | 0.535 | 0.534 | 0.243 | RA | 0.684 | 0.671 | 0.744 | 0.595 | 0.077 |
2010 | 2015 | ||||||||||
GDPPC | INC | ERL | IFA | RA | GDPPC | INC | ERL | IFA | RA | ||
GDPPC | 0.327 | GDPPC | 0.306 | ||||||||
INC | 0.684 | 0.514 | INC | 0.626 | 0.462 | ||||||
ERL | 0.831 | 0.702 | 0.516 | ERL | 0.518 | 0.722 | 0.142 | ||||
IFA | 0.725 | 0.785 | 0.810 | 0.348 | IFA | 0.618 | 0.691 | 0.421 | 0.225 | ||
RA | 0.747 | 0.897 | 0.850 | 0.875 | 0.489 | RA | 0.575 | 0.641 | 0.570 | 0.488 | 0.136 |
Bi-enhanced | Nonlinear-enhanced | Separate effects |
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Xia, S.; Yang, Y.; Qian, X.; Xu, X. Spatiotemporal Interaction and Socioeconomic Determinants of Rural Energy Poverty in China. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 10851. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710851
Xia S, Yang Y, Qian X, Xu X. Spatiotemporal Interaction and Socioeconomic Determinants of Rural Energy Poverty in China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(17):10851. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710851
Chicago/Turabian StyleXia, Siyou, Yu Yang, Xiaoying Qian, and Xin Xu. 2022. "Spatiotemporal Interaction and Socioeconomic Determinants of Rural Energy Poverty in China" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 17: 10851. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710851