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Interactions between Health, Environment and Economic Development

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 4243

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jiaping Zhang

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School of Public Administration, Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Interests: environmental economics; public health; quantitative methodologies; digital economy; human well-being; sustainable development; rural development; urban-rural integration
Dr. Kaifeng Duan

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School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Interests: urban development and management; urban-rural integration; sustainable development; rural revitalization
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Dr. Xicheng Yin

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School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 214443, China
Interests: digital economy; digital health; human-computer interaction

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past decades, health, the environment, and economic development have been the three most important issues facing human society. Health and the environment are fundamental to human survival and play a vital role in economic development. On the other hand, economic development also has a significant impact on public health and the environment. Besides, the environment has been widely recognized as an essential determinant of residents' health. With the popularity of the idea of sustainable development, promoting coordination among health, environment, and economic development has become a global consensus and an essential component of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). In recent years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, global public health, environment, and economic development have faced many challenges. For example, the Global Risks Report 2022 released by World Economic Forum pointed out that the global economic recovery in the next three years will be unbalanced and unstable. Meanwhile, climate change, livelihood crisis, and mental health deterioration are also major risks faced by human beings.

The goal of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for scientists and researchers to share, communicate, and discuss their findings on the nexus between health, the environment, and economic development. In addition, research about the impact of digital economy on public health, human well-beings, and environmental governance is also welcome. For this Special Issue, we seek a range of empirical, theoretical, and review papers from multiple social science disciplines to help achieve harmony between the economy, society, and the environment. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Interactions between health, environment, and economic development
  • Economic growth and environment during the post COVID-19 period
  • Promoting public health and environmental quality through the digital economy
  • Impact of environmental pollution on human health.
  • Socio-economic determinants of individual health
  • Effects of digital economy on public health, human well-beings, and environmental governance
  • Economic development and residents' quality of life
  • Economic-social development and ecological impacts
  • Discussing the effective measures to promote public health after the COVID-19 pandemic from a theoretical or practical perspective

Dr. Jiaping Zhang
Dr. Kaifeng Duan
Dr. Xicheng Yin
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • health
  • environment
  • economics
  • sustainable development
  • digital economy
  • risk environment
  • well-being
  • ecological welfare

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Urbanization, Human Inequality, and Material Consumption
by Shuai Zhang, Dajian Zhu and Lilian Li
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 4582; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054582 - 04 Mar 2023
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Global material consumption needs to be reduced to be within its planetary boundary. Urbanization and human inequality are two profound economic-social phenomena, which have potential impacts on material consumption. This paper aims to empirically explore how urbanization and human inequality affect material consumption. [...] Read more.
Global material consumption needs to be reduced to be within its planetary boundary. Urbanization and human inequality are two profound economic-social phenomena, which have potential impacts on material consumption. This paper aims to empirically explore how urbanization and human inequality affect material consumption. For this aim, four hypotheses are proposed and the coefficient of human inequality and material footprint per capita are employed to measure comprehensive human inequality and consumption-based material consumption, respectively. Based on an unbalanced panel data set of around 170 countries from 2010 to 2017, the regression estimations demonstrate that: (1) urbanization reduces material consumption; (2) human inequality increases material consumption; (3) the interaction effect between urbanization and human inequality reduces material consumption; (4) urbanization reduces human inequality, which explains why the interaction effect works; (5) urbanization makes more sense for reducing material consumption if the extents of human inequality are larger and the positive impacts of human inequality on material consumption are weakened if the extents of urbanization are larger. It is concluded that promoting urbanization and reducing human inequality are compatible with both ecological sustainability and social fairness. This paper contributes to understanding and achieving the absolute decoupling between economic-social development and material consumption. Full article
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Does China’s Carbon Trading Pilot Policy Reduce Carbon Emissions? Empirical Analysis from 285 Cities
by Xuehui Yang, Jiaping Zhang, Lehua Bi and Yiming Jiang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(5), 4421; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054421 - 01 Mar 2023
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This article studies the influence of the Carbon Trading Pilot Policy (CTPP) on carbon emissions by constructing the balanced panel data from 2003 to 2020 for 285 cities in China above the prefecture level. Difference-in-Difference (DID) method is used to test the influence [...] Read more.
This article studies the influence of the Carbon Trading Pilot Policy (CTPP) on carbon emissions by constructing the balanced panel data from 2003 to 2020 for 285 cities in China above the prefecture level. Difference-in-Difference (DID) method is used to test the influence and the mechanism. (1) The findings suggested that CTPP has dramatically reduced China’s carbon emissions by 6.21%. The parallel trend test shows that the premise of DID is reliable. (2) A variety of robustness tests, such as the instrumental variable method for endogeneity, Propensity Score Matching (PSM) for sample selection bias, variable substitution, time–bandwidth change, and exclusion of policy intervention, show that the conclusion is still robust. (3) The mediation mechanism test indicates that CTPP can promote the reduction in carbon emissions by promoting Green Consumption Transformation (GCT), improving Ecological Efficiency (EE), and promoting Industrial Structure Upgrading (ISU). GCT contributes the most, followed by EE and ISU. (4) The analysis of the heterogeneity reveals that CTPP has a greater effect on carbon emission reduction in central and peripheral cities in China. This study provides policy implications for China and similar developing countries in the face of carbon reduction. Full article
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