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Studying On The Relationship Between Oasis Economic Growth And Ecological Environment

Posted on:2014-08-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z H ChengFull Text:PDF
GTID:1109330467959706Subject:Agricultural Economics and Management
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The interaction between trade, economic and ecological environment is becomingncreasingly complex, which has attracted extensive attention. Especially since the nineteen nineties, theintensification of global environmental problems, such as climate change, ozone layer destruction, loss ofbiodiversity, marine pollution, makes people more aware of the importance of ecological environment thatthey survive in. In this context, seeking the coordinated development between the trade, economy andenvironment becomes one of the main problems to be solved in the global sustainable development. Basedon the mainstream economics theories of economic growth, trade and environmental economics and by themodern econometric analysis methods, this thesis explored the conduction mechanism of economicgrowth, trade and environment and put forward8assumptions, built models to analyze the correlationbetween economic growth, trade and environmental pollution in Xinjiang oasis to verify the8assumptions. In the research process, it strictly followed the researchideas”To assume audaciously and to testify cautiously". The main research contents of this thesis:The first chapter mainly introduced the research background, significance, ideas andmethods. Through analyzing the realistic background of economic developmentand ecological environment in China and Xinjiang, this chapter pointed out the necessity and practicalsignificance of researching on the relationship between economic growth and ecological environment inXinjiang oasis, under the open economy condition, summarized the related theory and empirical research indomestic and foreign, clarified the research ideas, research methods and possible research innovation.The second chapter was mainly about the review of the theory and research of object of study. Thischapter expounds the related theory and basic concepts, reviewed and commented on the relation betweeneconomic oasis, oasis ecological environment, economy and trade, economic and ecologicalenvironment, trade and the environment.The third chapter mainly studied on the conduction mechanism and the research hypothesis oftrade, economic growth and ecological environment. This chapter focused on the conduction mechanismof economic growth and trade, trade and environment, economic growth and ecological environment aswell as trade, economy and environment as a framework. According to the conducting mechanism and theexisting theoretical and empirical studies, put forward8hypotheses of this thesis, with the assumptions oflogical relationship between trade, economic growth and the ecological environment that is established asthe core.The fourth chapter analyzed the current situation of oasis economic growth, ecologicalenvironment and the development of foreign trade in Xinjiang. This chapter was the basis for the empiricalstudy, firstly, it analyzed the present situation of economic growth and development of Xinjiang in therespect of the economic scale, industrial structure, per capita income; secondly,it clarified the currentsituation and characteristics of the development of foreign trade in Xinjiang from the tradescale, trade, trade structure, trade balance;finally,it analyzed the characteristics of the ecologicalenvironment and the condition of environmental pollution and control in Xinjiang.The fifth chapter built model to test and analyse the relationship between trade and economic growthin Xinjiang oasis. The part firstly used correlation method to analyse the degree of correlationbetween foreign trade and economic growth in Xinjiang, on the basis of which, further builtmodel, empirical studied the conduction effect of export trade, import trade on economic growth ofXinjiang and the contribute to economic growth respectively, taking advantage of theories of the Graingercausality, cointegration theory and regression.The sixth chapter mainly studied the relationship between trade and environment ofXinjiang oasis. Making the analysis of ecological footprint of foreign trade as a starting point, this chapteranalyzed the surplus/deficit of ecological footprint of foreign trade in Xinjiang, defined thecurrent carrying capacity for ecological environmention to the development of foreign trade; secondly, analyzed the amount of import and export of virtual water trade of agricultural products by usingthe theory of virtual water trade, and analyzed the effect of the trade of agricultural products on thewater resources and environment in Xinjiang; third, through analyzing relationship between export tradeand energy consumption, introduced the concept of "trade pollution content" to explain that exporttrade increased the energy consumption and had an affect on the ecological environment;fourth, examined the relationship between the foreign trade and ecological environment usingregression model demonstration in Xinjiang oasis.The seventh chapter mainly studied the relationship between the trade, economic growth andecological environment. According to the research conclusion of relationship between economic growthand trade, trade and environment, this chapter mainly studied the relationship between economic growthand ecological environment in Xinjiang by means of cointegration theory and empirical method;empirically analyzed the logical relationship and long-term relationship in Xinjiang oasis amongtrade-economic growth-environmental pollution with VAR model, analyzed the relationshipbetween industry and environmental pollution by using panel data analysis, found outthe "clean industry" and "dirty industries"of economic growth in Xinjiang.The eighth chapter mainly discussed the influence of domestic trade on economic growth andecological environment in Xinjiang oasis. This chapter made a preliminary empirical analysis onthe relationship between domestic trade, economic growth and environment mainly from the presentsituation of domestic trade of Xinjiang oasis, briefly expounded the influence of the development ofdomestic trade to the oasis ecological environment.The main conclusions: the first conclusion is that the conduction mechanism of economic growthand trade include the conduction of resources allocation, science and technology, accumulation of humancapital, investment, scale economies, capital accumulation and policy system; the conduction mechanism oftrade and environment include the conduction of scale economy, structure effect,trade products, technology, income, regulations of trade; the conduction mechanism of economic growthand ecological environment include the conduction of effect of scale, economic structure, system policy ofthe economy, and effect of technological progress.The second conclusion is that the oasis trade and economic growth is the relationship of conductingmutually and reciprocal causation, trade plays a role in promoting the economic growth as a whole;there is a positive correlation between trade openness and economic growth in Xinjiang oasis. If the tradeopenness is more higher, the degree of association for technology effect, effect of human capital, theconduction effect of exchange rate, utilization of foreign capital of trade to the economic growth is morehigher.The third conclusion is that foreign trade of Xinjiang oasis has comparative advantage onthe production of the pollution intensive products; there is a positive correlation between increasedtrade and the degree of environmental pollution. Especially because the agriculture of Xinjiang oasis isdeveloped, the increasing export trade of primary agricultural products will result in the increaseof virtual water consumption and the decline of carrying capacity of water in Xinjiang oasis. There is apositive correlation between export trade and energy consumption in Xinjiang oasis, the composition ofexport commodity affect the structure and level of energy consumption, the increasing of energyconsumption will decrease the quality of oasis ecological environment.The Fourth conclusion is that there is a positive correlation between economic growth andenvironmental pollution in Xinjiang oasis, there also exist a long-term cointegration relationship; it has alogical relationship between trade, economic growth and environmental pollution, and it had not arrived atthe inflection point of environmental Cruz Nez curve; the "dirty industries" are mainly the heavy chemicalindustry, power and metal smelting industries in Xinjiang oasis.
Keywords/Search Tags:Xinjiang oasis, economic growth, ecological environment, trade
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