Does Intensive Land Use Contribute to Energy Efficiency?-Evidence Based on a Spatial Durbin Model

Dai, SZ (通讯作者),Wuhan Univ, Inst Cent China Dev, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China.
2022-5
In order to ensure the safety of cultivated land and promote urban productivity, the Chinese government began to promote intensive land use at the legislative level from 2014. At the same time, China faces problems of carbon emissions and energy, so we need to improve energy efficiency. Therefore, this paper aims to verify the spatial effects of intensive land use on energy efficiency of China from 2009 to 2018. We further use an index system to quantify intensive land use and use chain DEA (data envelope analysis) to quantify energy efficiency. This paper finds that: (1) intensive land use can significantly improve energy efficiency. A 1% increase in the level of intensive land use will increase energy efficiency by 1.3%. (2) The intensive use of land in one city will have a negative impact on the energy efficiency of surrounding cities. The reason is that the intensive use of land in a single city may lead to the transfer of energy-consuming industries to surrounding cities. (3) The impact of intensive land use on the energy efficiency of surrounding cities has negative threshold characteristics, and the negative impact will be weakened as the level of integration of the city increases.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:19|期号:9
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
Nanyang Institute of Technology; Wuhan University
被引频次(WOS)
2
被引频次(其他)
2
180天使用计数
21
2013以来使用计数
32
EISSN
1660-4601
出版年
2022-5
DOI
10.3390/ijerph19095130
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
intensive land use spatial durbin model energy efficiency carbon emissions
WOS学科分类
Environmental Sciences Public, Environmental & Occupational Health