Context Of Environmental Regulation Research Articles

The impact of the digital economy on carbon emission intensity from the environmental regulation perspective

ABSTRACT This study examines the nonlinear relationship between the digital economy and carbon emission intensity using Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) based on data from cities between 2010 and 2019. As environmental regulation intensity increases, the positive impact of the digital economy on carbon emission intensity gradually diminishes. This study offers a novel perspective on the interplay between the digital economy and carbon emission intensity within the context of environmental regulation.

Corporate Innovation and Capacity Utilization in China's Coastal Areas: Governance under the Context of Environmental Regulation

Zheng, C.; Zhang, Y., and Chen, K., 2020. Corporate innovation and capacity utilization in China's coastal areas: Governance under the context of environmental regulation. In: Wan, Z. (ed.), Coordinated Sustainable Development in Coastal Areas: Environment and Economy. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 109, pp. 197–205. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Previous empirical analysis of scholars found that environmental regulation has a significant impact on overcapacity and industrial structure adjustment, higher environmental regulation will increase overcapacity, while moderate environmental regulation will optimize industrial structure. Moreover, in the industrial enterprises above the scale, the industrial structure has an intermediary effect between environmental regulation and overcapacity. This paper studies corporate innovation and capacity utilization under the background of environmental regulation. Taking publicly listed firms in China's coastal provinces from 1990 to 2017 as our sample, the corporate innovation under environmental regulation has been significantly enhanced， and hence alleviates overcapacity in China. This means that environmental regulation promotes the formation of a virtuous circle. To firms with high-quality innovation, the positive effect is more pronounced. Moreover, to firms with bad internal governance, specifically to firms with high agency cost, the capacity utilization is low, which means serious waste of resources and environment. Meanwhile, external governance from the stock market, specifically analyst coverage and institutional ownership, fails to intensify the positive effect of corporate innovation on capacity utilization.

Profiles of Chemical Effects on Cells (pCEC): a toxicogenomics database with a toxicoinformatics system for risk evaluation and toxicity prediction of environmental chemicals

Profiles of Chemical Effects on Cells (pCEC) is a toxicogenomics database with a system of classifying chemicals that have effects on human health. This database stores and handles gene expression profiling information and categories of toxicity data. Chemicals are classified according to the specific tissues and cells they affect, the gene expression changes they induce, their toxicity and biological functions in this database system. The pCEC system also analyzes relationships between chemicals and the genes they affect in specific tissues and cells. The reason why we developed pCEC is to support decision-making within the context of environmental regulation. Especially, exposure to environmental chemicals during fetal and newborn development may result in a predisposition to various disorders such as cancer, learning disabilities and allergies later in life. The identification and prediction of hazardous chemicals using limited information are important issues in human health risk management. Therefore, various toxicity information including lethal dose 50 (LD50), toxicity pathways and pathological data were loaded into pCEC. pCEC is also a facility for query, analysis and prediction of unknown toxicochemical reaction pathways and biomarkers which are based on toxicoinformatical data mining approaches. This database is available online at http://project.nies.go.jp/eCA/cgi-bin/index.cgi. The current version of the database has information on the hepatotoxicity, reproductive toxicity and embryotoxicity of chemicals.

Rent-a-regulator: Design and innovation in privatized governmental decisionmaking

Privatization of traditionally governmental functions, from police work to education, has been a contentious topic in recent years. Popular debates treating the decision as a/I-or-nothing overlook the plethora of extant models of privatization that depart from the familiar paradigms of contracting out or selling assets entirely. This Comment examines one such under-the-radar model in the context of environmental regulation, both to highlight an approach that deserves attention and to show the connection between an initiative - design and its results. The model, which this Comment nickknames "rent-a-regulator," transfers regulatory decisionmaking to licensed professionals who directly serve regulated "clients." Rather than contracting out regulatory functions or privatizing them entirely, the government licenses professionals, just as it would doctors or plumbers, to make compliance decisions. A case study of Massachusetts' program reveals systematic regulatory violations in this system. At the same time, ii suggests that the program's failings are likely due to specific structural shortcomings, such that the program might be redesigned rather than abandoned. Careful attention to design and structure thus helps establish middle ground between privatization supporters and opponents. Refining existing privatization strategies may provide the most promising way forward.