A Study On The Environmental Pollution Economic Effects And Social Effects Of Valley-Cities In The Western China

During the fast industrialization and the urbanization, as a result of special natural condition, high consumes energy industry and unreasonable urban construction and so on , Some valley-cities in the Western China are faced with environmental pollution problem. The urban environment pollution not only has increased the intensity and the frequency of city hot island effect, acid rain effect and so on, but also has brought a series of negative influences to the urban economy activity and the social development.The research discovered that the urban environment pollution not only enables the city building to suffer injury, the suburb crops underproduction, the residential health suffers injury, but also has created the city landscape depreciation as well as city brain drain and so on. If transforms these losses into the economic cost, it will occupy quite great proportion in every city's GDP. Through utilizing the economical principle, unifying investigates and market, consulting the predecessor achievement, This article calculates partial valley- cities air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution and solid reject pollution economic loss, We discover that economical loss occupy 3% - 6% of these cities GDP in 2002.In addition, through the social investigation, this article attempts to discover how the city people and the enterprise realize their urban environment pollution problem in the environmental sociology theory foundation. The investigation discovered that the visited urban residents have certain cognition to their cities environmental pollution questions especially obviously to this pollution quite serious cities, like Lanzhou, Chongqing and so on. The investigation also showed that cities environmental pollution has done harm to the city resident's psychology, physiological, the work, the study, the leisure as well as unit of jobs choice and children's remove or retain and so on. Through investigating the Lanzhou city enterprises, we discovered that urban environment pollution has increased enterprise's production cost, reduced enterprise's product quality, affected the enterprise's product prestige, and caused the enterprise's produce market competitive power drop in the Lanzhou. The investigation also discovered that environmental protection consciousness of those cities inhabitant and enterprises pauses in one kind "said does few" in the level and environmental protection consciousness and environmental protection behavior displaysquite negatively and passive.Therefore, strengthening environmental protection consciousness and the behavior of valley-cities inhabitant and enterprise, enlarging valley-cities urban environment pollution dynamics of government, have been urgent.