Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters
This paper aims to assess the agricultural losses caused by the 2069 state-monitored heavily air polluting enterprises located in 899 Chinese counties. We examine the correlation between per capita number of state-monitored enterprises and other socio-economic indices to show the negative impacts of...
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2013
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| author | Wei, Juichang Guo, Xiumei Marinova, Dora Fan, Jin |
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| description | This paper aims to assess the agricultural losses caused by the 2069 state-monitored heavily air polluting enterprises located in 899 Chinese counties. We examine the correlation between per capita number of state-monitored enterprises and other socio-economic indices to show the negative impacts of sulphur dioxide (SO2) industrial air pollution on agricultural development in the regions. Despite these enterprises being the main drivers of economic development in China’s counties, surrounding agricultural land continues to be degraded because of the associated SO2 emissions. The cost of agricultural losses due to pollution is estimated at US$ 1.43 billion, representing 0.66% of the total agricultural value added of the 899 Chinese counties. The findings highlight the importance of cleaner production and have policy implications for dealing with industrial air pollution. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-125422019-02-19T04:27:12Z Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters Wei, Juichang Guo, Xiumei Marinova, Dora Fan, Jin This paper aims to assess the agricultural losses caused by the 2069 state-monitored heavily air polluting enterprises located in 899 Chinese counties. We examine the correlation between per capita number of state-monitored enterprises and other socio-economic indices to show the negative impacts of sulphur dioxide (SO2) industrial air pollution on agricultural development in the regions. Despite these enterprises being the main drivers of economic development in China’s counties, surrounding agricultural land continues to be degraded because of the associated SO2 emissions. The cost of agricultural losses due to pollution is estimated at US$ 1.43 billion, representing 0.66% of the total agricultural value added of the 899 Chinese counties. The findings highlight the importance of cleaner production and have policy implications for dealing with industrial air pollution. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12542 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.10.027 Elsevier Science fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Wei, Juichang Guo, Xiumei Marinova, Dora Fan, Jin Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters |
| title | Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters |
| title_full | Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters |
| title_fullStr | Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters |
| title_short | Industrial SO2 pollution and agricultural losses in China: evidence from heavy air polluters |
| title_sort | industrial so2 pollution and agricultural losses in china: evidence from heavy air polluters |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12542 |