Drag Effect of Economic Growth and Its Spatial Differences under the Constraints of Resources and Environment: Empirical Findings from China's Yellow River Basin.

Dong Mei,Ding Li,Yujiao Zhou,Jianyi Zhong,Weifeng Li

doi:10.3390/ijerph19053027

Abstract

As the global economic development intensifies the plunder of resources and the environment, the constraints are becoming more and more obvious. Based on the background of the strategy for ecological conservation and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, this paper intends to construct a resource-environment-constrained economic growth drag effect model and a spatial Dubin model, and explore the economic growth drag effect and its spatial differences in the Yellow River Basin under the constraints of resources and environment. The study found that the total drag effects of the overall economic growth of the Yellow River Basin that were obtained by the classic panel model without spatial effects is significantly negative. This is consistent with the conclusion that the average total drag effects of 80 prefecture-level cities is negative. The total drag effects of the overall economic growth of the Yellow River Basin changes from unconstrained to medium-constrained after adding spatial constraints, indicating that the spatial correlation of factors will restrict economic growth. From the level of the Yellow River sub-catchment, the total drag effect of the direct effects of the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yellow River is consistent with the total drag effect of the total effect. It shows that the upper economic growth is strongly constrained by the local resources and environment, while the downstream is strongly constrained by the adjacent resources and the environment. The research results provide references for resolving the resources and environment constraints in the Yellow River Basin. It provides useful inspiration for promoting ecological protection and high-quality development strategies in the Yellow River Basin.

Highlights

Resource and environmental issues have always been a major problem facing the global economic development, playing a role in either hindering or promoting economic development, and as economic development intensifies the plunder of resources and the environment, the constraints are becoming more and more obvious
In order to ensure the robustness of model estimation, this paper conducted Wald test and LR test on SAR, SEM, and spatial Durbin model (SDM) to judge the rationality of SDM
After incorporating the spatial effects, we find that the total drag effect of economic growth in the Yellow River Basin is 0.0137, which shows that the average annual economic growth rate of the Yellow River Basin has dropped by 0.0137% under the constraints of natural resources and environmental pollution

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Introduction

Resource and environmental issues have always been a major problem facing the global economic development, playing a role in either hindering or promoting economic development, and as economic development intensifies the plunder of resources and the environment, the constraints are becoming more and more obvious. River still provides irrigation for several provinces and hundreds of millions of people. How to make good use of river resources and protect the environment is a problem that the Chinese government is currently trying to solve. The government has put forward the goal of achieving new progress in the construction of ecological civilization, which includes improving the efficiency of energy resource allocation, continuously reducing the total discharge of major pollutants, and continuously improving the ecological environment.

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