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Spatial dynamic evolution of environmental infrastructure governance in China

by Ke Guo a,*
a
School of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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EAL  2022, 9; 1(2), 9; https://doi.org/10.58567/eal01020004
Received: 12 November 2022 / Accepted: 27 December 2022 / Published Online: 28 December 2022
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Abstract

The implementation of environmental protection strategy necessarily requires mapping the amount of capital stock of environmental infrastructure. Through the Weibull distribution function and hyperbolic age-decreasing efficiency model, the provincial environmental infrastructure capital stock in China from 1980 to 2018 is measured cautiously, and its spatial dynamics with the generated pollutants is analyzed using the center of gravity method. It is found that: the spatial distribution of environmental infrastructure capital stock is uneven, and the unevenness in the east-west direction is greater than that in the north-south direction, but the unevenness in the east-west direction is narrowing while the north-south direction is widening; the spatial and temporal distribution of environmental infrastructure capital and environmental pollution vary greatly, and the spatial management of environmental pollution is less accurate.

Keywords: Environmental infrastructure; Capital stock; Governance; Dynamic evolution;
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