scholarly journals Examining the driving factors of industrial CO2 emissions in Chinese cities using geographically weighted regression model

Author(s):  
Huiping Wang ◽  
Xueying Zhang

Abstract The industrial sector is the sector with the largest CO2 emissions, and to reduce overall CO2 emissions, analysis of the impact factors holds significance. Based on the 2015 industrial CO2 emissions of 282 cities in China combined with economic and social data, and a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model, we analysed the characteristics of the spatial distribution of CO2 emissions and the influencing factors of spatial heterogeneity. The results show that China's urban industrial CO2 emissions present a significant spatial agglomeration state that includes Shandong, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, and the core of the coastal areas form a high-high (H-H) concentration; a low-low aggregation (L-L) is formed in less developed areas such as Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi. The influence of various factors on industrial CO2 emissions has significant spatial heterogeneity. The Industrial scale, industry share of GDP, and share of the service industry in GDP are factors that promote industrial CO2 emissions. The technological innovation, population density, and social investment in fixed assets are important factors that inhibit industrial CO2 emissions, but their impact on industrial CO2 emissions shows spatial differences. In contrast, the level of economic development, foreign direct investment, financial development and government intervention have a two-way impact on industrial CO2 emissions.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7235
Author(s):  
Quan Shao ◽  
Yan Zhou ◽  
Pei Zhu ◽  
Yan Ma ◽  
Mengxue Shao

Although the factors influencing bird strikes have been studied extensively, few works focused on the spatial variations in bird strikes affected by factors due to the difference in the geographical environment around the airport. In this paper, the bird strike density distribution of different seasons affected by factors in a rectangular region of 800 square kilometers centered on the Xi’an Airport runway was investigated based on collected bird strike data. The ordinary least square (OLS) model was used to analyze the global effects of different factors, and the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model was used to analyze the spatial variations in the factors of bird strike density. The results showed that key factors on the kernel density of bird strikes showed evident spatial heterogeneity and the seasonal difference in the different habitats. Based on the results of the study, airport managers are provided with some specific defense measures to reduce the number of bird strikes from the two aspects of expelling birds on the airfield area and reducing the attractiveness of habitats outside the airport to birds, so that achieve the sustainable and safe development of civil aviation and the ecological environment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7659
Author(s):  
Liangjun Yi ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Yuanxin Liu ◽  
Weilin Zhang

China’s recent development has been nothing short of remarkable, but energy-saving, and environmental protection is still a serious problem. The improvement of energy efficiency (EE) is an important factor for China to better follow the path of energy conservation, sustainable development, and environmental protection. Meanwhile, market segmentation is a unique phenomenon in the process of China’s economic development. Hence, studying market segmentation on energy efficiency has positive significance for improving energy efficiency. The major objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between EE and market segmentation. This paper measures market segmentation by the Price-Based Approach, calculating EE by super slack-based measure (super-SBM), and integrated spatial Durbin model and geographically weighted regression model. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 1995 to 2018, this paper finds that: (1) Regional market segmentation has a significant negative effect on EE. Moreover, in terms of spatial effect, market segmentation has a positive spatial spillover on EE estimated by 0-1 matrix suggesting that market segmentation in the surrounding area has a positive impact on local EE. (2) The negative effect of Market segmentation on EE demonstrates the obvious regional difference: Eastern region > central region > western region. In addition, geographically weighted regression results show that the impact of market segmentation on EE shows that in regional spatial distribution, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui have the strongest negative effect, second in Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. (3) This paper confirms that market segmentation can affect EE through local protectionism, technological difference, and scale effect. Finally, through the above research basis, put forward the corresponding policy suggestions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-Yuan Lu ◽  
Xu Chen ◽  
Xue-Li Zhao ◽  
Dan-Jv Lv ◽  
Yan Zhang

AbstractUrbanization had a huge impact on the regional ecosystem net primary productivity (NPP). Although the urban heat island (UHI) caused by urbanization has been found to have a certain promoting effect on urban vegetation NPP, the factors on the impact still are not identified. In this study, the impact of urbanization on NPP was divided into direct impact (NPPdir) and indirect impact (NPPind), taking Kunming city as a case study area. Then, the spatial heterogeneity impact of land surface temperature (LST) on NPPind was analyzed based on the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model. The results indicated that NPP, LST, NPPdir and NPPind in 2001, 2009 and 2018 had significant spatial autocorrelation in Kunming based on spatial analytical model. LST had a positive impact on NPPind in the central area of Kunming. The positively correlation areas of LST on NPPind increased by 4.56%, and the NPPind caused by the UHI effect increased by an average of 4.423 gC m−2 from 2009 to 2018. GWR model can reveal significant spatial heterogeneity in the impacts of LST on NPPind. Overall, our findings indicated that LST has a certain role in promoting urban NPP.


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 791
Author(s):  
Xinyu Qu ◽  
Xinyan Zhu ◽  
Xiongwu Xiao ◽  
Huayi Wu ◽  
Bingxuan Guo ◽  
...  

Some studies on the impact of traditional land use factors on traffic crashes do not take into account the limitations of spatial heterogeneity and spatial scale. To overcome these limitations this study presents a systematic method based on multi-scale geographically weighted regression (MGWR), which considers spatial heterogeneity and spatial scale differences of different influencing factors, to explore the influence of reclassified points-of-interest (POI) on traffic crashes occurring on weekdays and weekends. Experiments were conducted on 442 communities in Hankou, Wuhan, and the performance of the proposed method was compared against traditional methods based on ordinary least squares (OLS), spatial lag model (SLM), spatial error model (SEM), and geographically weighted regression (GWR). The experiments show that the proposed method yielded the best fitness of models and more accurate model results of local coefficient estimates. The highlights of the results are as follows: There are differences in the scale of the predictor variables. Residential POI, scenic POI, and transportation POI have a global effect on traffic crashes. Commercial service POI and industrial POI affects traffic crashes at the regional scale, while public service POI affects crashes at the local scale. The local coefficient estimates from residential POI and scenic POI have little impact on traffic crashes. During weekdays, more transportation POI in the entire study area leads to more traffic crashes. While on weekends, transportation POI has a significant positive effect on crashes only in some communities. The local coefficient estimates for industrial POI vary at different periods. Commercial service POI and public service POI may increase the risk of crashes in some communities, which can be observed on weekdays and weekends. Exploring the influence of POI on traffic crashes at different periods is helpful for traffic management strategies and in reducing traffic crashes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 2355-2359
Author(s):  
Ri Na Wu ◽  
Ming Xiang Huang ◽  
Yu Hai Bao ◽  
Gang Bao

In this paper, based on the data of carbon emissions of county-level in Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China, using the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) model, we quantitatively analyze the effects of six social-economic driving factors, including Gross Domestic Product (GDP), population (Popu), economic growth rate (EconGR), urbanization (Urba), industrial structure (InduS) and road density (RoadD) on regional carbon emissions. The results were achieved as follow:(1) The spatial heterogeneity of carbon emissions of Inner Mongolia and the social-economic factors of affecting carbon emissions are obviously; (2) the correlation among the six factors is low. (3) GDP, InduS and Popu have significant effect on carbon emissions, and effects of EconGR, Urba and RoadD are smaller. The impacts of different factors on carbon emissions at different spatial region show spatial heterogeneity.


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