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Environmental Regulation and Green Technological Innovation in the Digital Economy Era

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Ecology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 November 2023) | Viewed by 1700

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School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: big data analytics in sustainable operations management; socially-responsible AI; green technological innovation; eco-friendly transportation
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School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: sustainable operations management; green supply chain management; environmental regulation; green technological innovation
School of Business Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Interests: green consumption; digital marketing; green consumer behavior

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Dear Colleagues,

Large-scale energy consumption and serious environmental pollution are growing problems worldwide, and the key to solving energy and environmental problems lies in putting in place appropriate environmental regulations to stimulate companies' willingness to innovate in green technologies. However, the incentive mechanisms of environmental regulatory instruments for innovation are very different and strongly influenced by external factors. The complex relationship between different tools and intensities of environmental regulation and green technology innovation has been the focus of attention by academics, enterprises, and government departments. At the same time, in the digital economy, advanced intelligent technologies, with their high penetration, intensive knowledge creation, and extensive empowerment, are reshaping economic structures and changing innovation paradigms, profoundly influencing the means and ways of environmental pollution management and assessment, the forms and methods of environmental regulation, the intensity and paradigms of green technology innovation, and the relationship between environmental regulation and green technology innovation. This Special Issue invites papers that address any of the above themes, particularly those that employ advanced analytical tools (e.g. machine learning and causal inference methods) to conduct high-level academic research on environmental regulation and green technology innovation in the digital economy.

Dr. Yishi Zhang
Prof. Dr. De Xia
Dr. Yaxuan Ran
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental regulation and governance
  • environmental policy and evaluation
  • sustainable operations management
  • green technology innovation
  • resource utilization efficiency
  • green product development
  • pollution reduction
  • green performance
  • digital economy
  • intelligent technology

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24 pages, 3588 KiB  
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Does Environmental Regulation Promote the Infrastructure Investment Efficiency? Analysis Based on the Spatial Effects
by Maohui Ren, Tao Zhou, Di Wang and Chenxi Wang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(4), 2960; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20042960 - 8 Feb 2023
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Infrastructure investment plays a key role in steady economic growth. Investment in infrastructure is gradually increasing; however, large-scale infrastructure investment is also associated with efficiency problems and environmental problems, which need to be carefully examined. The entropy weight method and the Super-SBM model [...] Read more.
Infrastructure investment plays a key role in steady economic growth. Investment in infrastructure is gradually increasing; however, large-scale infrastructure investment is also associated with efficiency problems and environmental problems, which need to be carefully examined. The entropy weight method and the Super-SBM model are implemented to measure environmental regulation and infrastructure investment efficiency, respectively; and the spatial Durbin model is applied to analyze the influence mechanism and spatial effects of environmental regulation on infrastructure investment efficiency. The results show that spatial agglomeration characteristics exist in both environmental regulation and infrastructure investment efficiency. Besides, environmental regulation can promote infrastructure investment efficiency in general, but it develops an inverted U-shaped relationship as the intensity increases. Lastly, the spillover effects of environmental regulation on infrastructure investment efficiency present a U-shaped relationship. The conclusion is that both environmental regulation and infrastructure investment efficiency in China increased from 2008 to 2020. Besides, moderate environmental regulation is beneficial to infrastructure investment efficiency and restrains spatial spillover, but strict environmental regulation appears to be the opposite. This research expands the literature on environmental regulation and production efficiency and provides a reference basis for formulating effective policies to improve infrastructure investment efficiency from the perspective of the ecological environment. Full article
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