Environmental Strategy and Planning in China by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811669095
Publisher: Springer Singapore

GPI

0.274a

0.233a

0.337a

0.459a

0.496a

1

0.541a

Per capita GDP

0.365a

0.323a

−0.03a

0.573a

0.489a

0.541a

1

a Correlation is obvious at the 0.01 level (two tailed)

In particular, GDP has a significant positive correlation with environmental health, ecological conservation, sustainable utilization of resources, environmental control and environmental performance. That is, with a higher socioeconomic level, the higher such indexes as environmental health, ecological conservation, sustainable utilization of resources, environmental control and environmental performance, the better is the performance level. Per capita GDP has a significant positive correlation with environmental health, ecological conservation, environmental control and environmental performance. That is, with a higher per capita GDP level, the higher such indexes as environmental health, ecological conservation and environmental control, the better is the performance level accordingly. However, per capita GDP is not correlated with the index of sustainable utilization of resources; in other words, per capita GDP has no effect on the sustainable utilization of resources.

China’s environmental performance was characterized by a gradient spatial pattern: the eastern region was better than the central region, and the central region was better than the western region [3, 17]. Seen from the overall environmental performance of China’s eastern, central and western regions*,1 from 2004 to 2013 the eastern region performed better than the central region, and the central region performed better than the western region. Moreover, there was similar trend in the variation in environmental performance.

The gap between the central and western regions and the eastern region in EPI became smaller and smaller. The main reason for the regional differences is that the eastern region took the lead in China to open up and adopt policies of reform, and thus its level of economic development far outpaced that of the central and western regions [2, 14]. In addition, it invested more in environmental control [18]. In 2004, the environmental performance score for the eastern region was 4.3 points higher than that for the central region and 6.7 points higher than that for the western region, whereas in 2013 the score for the eastern region was 1.7 points higher than that for the central region and 2.9 points higher than that for the western region. Thus, it is evident that the regional gap was narrowed (Fig. 6).

Fig. 6Scoring trend of the environmental performance index for eastern, central and western regions of China

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