Environmental Legislation and Pollution Emissions: An Empirical Analysis Based on China

Impact of Environmental Quality Variables and Socio-Economic Factors on Human Health: Empirical Evidence from China

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the foremost gas, emanated from human activities, and the best-known greenhouse gas, contributing to global warming, thus its negative effect on human health cannot be disregarded. The current paper investigates the relation between environmental quality variables, socio-economic factors, and human health from 1960 to 2014 in China, using Auto Regressive Distribution Lag...

Impact of Environmental Quality Variables and Socio-Economic Factors on Human Health: Empirical Evidence from China

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the foremost gas, emanated from human activities, and the best-known greenhouse gas, contributing to global warming, thus its negative effect on human health cannot be disregarded. The current paper investigates the relation between environmental quality variables, socio-economic factors, and human health from 1960 to 2014 in China, using Auto Regressive Distribution Lag...

Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Legislation Versus Health and Environmental Effects

A productivity analysis considering environmental pollution and diseases in China

Environmental pollution and human health problems are becoming serious issues in China. This research focuses on regional differences in productive inefficiencies and attempts to clarify the determinants of inefficiency, accounting economic, environmental and health-related factors. Our dataset includes information of 29 areas in China from 2003 to 2009. We find that after accounting for enviro...

Environmental pollution in China: Status and trends

The state of China’s environment is receiving attention from all over the world. This article reviews the current status and trends of environmental pollution in China. We argue that China is able to contain, and to some extent improve air and water quality for the urban population at the local level. The situation is uneven when it comes to problems at the regional level. On the one hand surfa...