Scale of Production, Agglomeration and Agricultural Pollutant Treatment: Evidence From a Survey in China

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.016

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	Scale of Production, Agglomeration and Agricultural Pollutant Treatment: Evidence From a Survey in China
	Liu, Yazhou 1,3; Ji, Yueqing 1; Shao, Shuai 2; Zhong, Funing 1; Zhang, Ning 4; Chen, Yishan 1
刊名	ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
	2017-10
卷号	140 页码:30-45
关键词	Scale of pig production Agglomeration Pollutant treatment Environmental regulation Nonlinear model
ISSN号	0921-8009
DOI	10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.016
英文摘要	Although some local governments in China have implemented mandatory environmental regulation policies to address severe pollution problems due to expanding pig production, whether such executive policies conform to the objective development law of pig production and are capable of effectively reducing pollution emissions is a pending issue. In this paper, we establish a theoretical model to illuminate the potential effects of the scale and agglomeration of pig production on the pollutant treatment rate and propose four theoretical hypotheses. Furthermore, we use survey data collected from Jiaxing city - the largest pig supply base in China's Yangtze River Delta region - and employ both linear and nonlinear models to empirically test the theoretical hypotheses. The results show that the rate of faeces applied to the fields as manure decreases with the scale of pig production, while the rate of other harmless modes of pollutant treatment increases with the scale of production, resulting in a U-shaped relationship between the pollutant treatment rate and the scale of pig production. In addition, the total pollutant treatment rate increases with the agglomeration of pig production. We suggest that effective environmental regulation of pig production should differentiate between the types of pollution emissions generated by pig producers; according to their scale of production, pig producers should be classified as point or nonpoint sources of pollution. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
WOS记录号	WOS:000403988100004
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/888]
专题	上海财经大学
作者单位	1.Nanjing Agr Univ, Coll Econ & Management, China Ctr Food Secur Studies, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 2.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Inst Finance & Econ Res, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China; 3.Univ East Anglia, Sch Int Dev, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England; 4.Jinan Univ, Dept Econ, Guangzhou 510632, Guangdong, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Yazhou,Ji, Yueqing,Shao, Shuai,et al. Scale of Production, Agglomeration and Agricultural Pollutant Treatment: Evidence From a Survey in China[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2017,140:30-45.
APA	Liu, Yazhou,Ji, Yueqing,Shao, Shuai,Zhong, Funing,Zhang, Ning,&Chen, Yishan.(2017).Scale of Production, Agglomeration and Agricultural Pollutant Treatment: Evidence From a Survey in China.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,140,30-45.
MLA	Liu, Yazhou,et al."Scale of Production, Agglomeration and Agricultural Pollutant Treatment: Evidence From a Survey in China".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 140(2017):30-45.