Environmental Regulation And Resource-based Cities: Theoretical Mechanism And Empirical Verification

Resource-based cities through the development and utilization of basic energy and natural resources,not only meet China's resources and energy needs during the 40 years of reform and opening,but also lead to the economic and social prosperity and development of the resource-based cities theirselves.However,with the overexploitation and consumption of local resources,resource-based cities are faced with many problems such as resource depletion,environmental pollution,and ecological imbalances.How to realize the coordinated development of resource-based cities in economic growth,social livelihood,and ecological protection through environmental regulations is particularly urgent.Under this background,this paper incorporates environmental regulation into the framework of endogenous growth,and constructs the theoretical framework that is illustrate the relations between environmental regulation and economic growth of resource-based cities from the perspective of factor input.Then,we select relevant statistical data of resource-based cities in China to test whether the mechanism is fesible,that is environmental regulations through the intermediary variables such as scientific and technological innovation,healthy human capital and labor input,can have an effect on economic growth of resource-based cities.Finally,on the basis of theoretical and empirical analysis,in order to solve the problems existing in the process of resource-based urban environmental regulation,we will formulate policies to promote the economic growth of resource-based cities through environmental regulations,and provide decision-making for China's resource-based cities to achieve innovative,green,and coordinated economic growth.This paper mainly studies the theoretical mechanisms about how environmental regulations affect the economic growth of resource-based cities in China.The empirical test results can be summarized in the following four points:(1)The relationship between environmental regulation and technological innovation in resource-based cities is U-shaped,but At present,most of China's resource-based cities are on the left of the inflection point,and there is an adjustment effect on labor productivity and fiscal capacity in the non-agricultural industries in the region;(2)Intensity of environmental regulation has a significant inverse U-shaped nonlinear effect on healthy human capital in resource-based cities.The city is already on the right side of the inflection point,and the local fiscal capacity and ecological environment quality have a regulatory role;(3)The employment effect of resource-based urban environmental regulation is significantly negative as a whole,and there are significant threshold characteristics,the proportion of tertiary industry and industrial profits.When the rate exceeds a certain level,environmental regulation has a significant role in promoting the employment rate;(4)In the process of resource-based urban environmental regulation promoting economic growth,the mediating effects of technological innovation,healthy human capital,and labor supply channels can become economic growth.Advantageous factors,including technological innovations An active role in the economic growth of cities,will be significant only in the case of the elimination of endogenous,health capital,the impact of labor mediating effect on the supply of resource-based urban economic growth is relatively high.Compared with the existing literature,the innovations in this article are mainly reflected in three aspects: First,from the perspective of production factors,we discuss the impact of environmental regulation on the economic growth of resource-based cities.Specifically,from the aspects of scientific and technological innovation,healthy human capital,and labor supply,this paper analyzes the transmission mechanisms of environmental regulation that affect the economic growth of resource-based cities,so as to provide theoretical support for resource-based cities to realize green,innovation,and coordinate economic development.The second is based on the endogenous growth model to build a theoretical framework for environmental regulation that affects the economic growth of resource-based cities.The use of models to analyze the specific mechanisms of environmental regulation on the science and technology innovation,healthy human capital,and labor supply of resource-based cities provides a theoretical basis for further empirical tests,and in turn results in the realization of "dual dividends" in environmental protection and environmental protection and resource city development.The third is to use a panel data measurement model(such as threshold regression,dynamic regression,etc.)to empirically examine the non-linear relationship between resource-based urban environmental regulation and technological innovation,healthy human capital,and labor supply.Meanwhile,this paper identifies whether transmission mechanism of the environmental regulations through technological innovation,healthy human capital,and labor supply is established,Those would eventually enriches the existing theoretical research on environmental regulation and economic growth.