Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage
Abstract
Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage. Regional Studies. This paper examines the issues of decoupling regional economic growth and pollution and the extent to which pollution effects spillover regional/national borders. Specifically, a UK, regionally disaggregated, computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is used to investigate the relationship between economic growth and the level of CO2 emissions posited by the ‘environmental Kuznets curve’ (EKC) conjecture using production accounting principle (PAP) and consumption accounting principle (CAP) environmental accounting methods. The simulation results suggest that at the regional level the existence of an EKC relationship depends on the source of regional growth and the how this relationship is specified.
Citation
Cui , C X , Hanley , N , McGregor , P , Swales , K , Turner , K & Yin , Y P 2017 , ' Impacts of regional productivity growth, decoupling and pollution leakage ' Regional Studies , vol. 51 , no. 9 , pp. 1324-1335 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2016.1167865
Publication
Regional Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0034-3404Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Description
The research reported in this paper was supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [reference number RES-066-27-0029] and the Scottish government’s ClimateXChange project.Collections
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