Ziyuan Kexue (Mar 2023)
Performance evaluation and regional disparities of inclusive green growth in the Yellow River Basin: An empirical study based on the dual goals of pollution and carbon reduction and common prosperity
Abstract
[Objective] The objective of this study was to promote the coordinated improvement of inclusive green growth performance in the Yellow River Basin against the background of coordinated promotion of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the new development stage and realization of common prosperity. [Methods] Based on the analytical framework of economy-environment-society, an input-output indicator system for inclusive green growth performance was constructed. Using the global-Luenberger index of the Epsilon-based measure (EBM) model, the performance of inclusive green growth in cities of the Yellow River Basin from 2007 to 2019 was evaluated. Using the Theil index and variance decomposition, the sources of regional disparities in inclusive green growth performance were analyzed from both spatial and structural perspectives, respectively. Using geographical detectors, the driving factors for the performance gap in inclusive green growth in the Yellow River Basin were revealed from both endogenous and exogenous perspectives. [Results] During the sample investigation period, the inclusive green growth performance of the Yellow River basin showed a fluctuating upward trend, with a regional imbalance characteristic of downstream > upstream > middle reaches. Intraregional disparities were the main source of spatial disparities in the performance of inclusive green growth in the basin. Reducing internal disparities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Basin is a key direction for improving the performance of inclusive green growth in the future. The technological progress gap and the input factor productivity gap were the main sources of the performance structure gap of inclusive green growth in the Yellow River Basin, while the effect intensity of labor input productivity, energy input productivity, and water input productivity gaps decreased in turn. Among the internal factors, technological progress and undesired output productivity gaps had always been the most decisive factors for the performance gap of inclusive green growth in the basin. External factors such as industrial structure, scientific and technological innovation, and opening up to the outside world are the key to the synergistic improvement of inclusive green growth performance in the basin. [Conclusion] The explanatory power of the interaction of impact factors on the performance of inclusive green growth in the Yellow River basin is far greater than that of individual factors, indicating that the region should pay attention to the matching degree of internal and external drivers, and give full play to the interaction of factors in order to achieve coordinated development of inclusive green growth.
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