The Assessment Of Environmental Policy And Regulation And The Effects On The Technology Innovation In Taihu Lake Area:Case Study In Pulp And Paper Industry

With the rapid development of the economic, environmental pollution problem is gettingworse and worse. The root courses of the environmental pollution is unlimited use of resources,limited resources highlight the importance of technology. Environmental policy is an effectivetool which solves the contradiction between economic development and environmental pollution,to some extent, its implementation will impact technology updates. Whether the implementationeffect of environmental policies advances technology innovation becoming a hot topic of today 'sscholars.Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China. In recent years, the waterenvironment of Taihu Lake is deterioration gradually, View of this, relevant departmentsdeveloped a more comprehensive environmental policy. Taihu Lake Area's industries are verydeveloped, pulp and paper industries rank second in Taihu Lake Area's six key pollutingindustries. This paper uses the Environmental Regulation Stringency to assessment theimplementation of environmental policy effects of the Taihu Lake Area. In addition,this paperuses Econometric methods study the effects which caused by Taihu Lake Area EnvironmentalPolicy Implementation to technological innovation. Specific research and achievements are asfollows:(1)Describe the types of the environmental policies, analysis of some typicalenvironmental policy instruments on the mechanism of action. Study on the environmentalpolicies of the Taihu Lake Area theoretically, simultaneously, analysis of the environmentalpolicies to the pulp and paper industries which implemented in Taihu Lake Area.(2)Use the Environmental Regulation Stringency method to research the implementationeffect which caused by pulp and paper industries environmental policies of Wuxi and Jiaxingquantitatively. By comparing with the average of the same industries of China, EnvironmentalPolicies which implemented by Taihu Lake Area achieved good results.(3)Wuxi and Jialing's pulp and paper industries implemented many environmentalpolicies, and those environmental policies obtained implementation effects. Make Wuxi andJiaxing's Environmental Regulation Stringency as the evaluation index of the effects ofenvironmental policies implementation, use an econometric model, conduct an empirical study ofthe impacts on technological innovation which caused by those implementation effects. By thecalculation of the Eviews6.0, the results show that both of the implementation effects caused byenvironmental policies on pulp and paper industries which used by Wuxi and Jiaxing have inducing technological innovation. This indicates that, within a certain range, the Taihuimplementation of environmental policy will promote technological innovation.