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Transportation infrastructure and eco-environmental quality: Evidence from China’s high-speed rail

PloS one, 2023-08, Vol.18 (8), p.e0290840-e0290840 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Transportation infrastructure and eco-environmental quality: Evidence from China’s high-speed rail
Author: Wei, Lan-ye ; Liu, Zhao
Shen, Chaohai
Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences ; Cities ; Construction ; Development strategies ; Earth Sciences ; Ecology and Environmental Sciences ; Economic activity ; Economic aspects ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Efficiency ; Engineering and Technology ; Environmental aspects ; Environmental quality ; Green building (Construction) ; Green development ; Heterogeneity ; High speed rail ; High speed trains ; Infrastructure ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Innovations ; Land purchases ; Land use ; Literature reviews ; People and Places ; Pollutants ; Social Sciences ; Sustainable development ; Transportation policy ; Urban areas
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2023-08, Vol.18 (8), p.e0290840-e0290840
Description: Ecological civilization construction is China’s national development strategy, and improving the urban eco-environmental quality is the key to accelerating this strategy, while the high-speed rail (HSR) opening is an important factor affecting the urban eco-environmental quality. Using panel data of 290 cities in China from 2004 to 2020, this study explores the impact of HSR opening on urban eco-environmental quality and its heterogeneity from the perspective of direct impact and interaction between HSR connected cities. Compared with cities without HSR service, the eco-environmental quality of cities with HSR service has significantly increased by 0.023 standard deviations, which is about 4.11% of the total change in urban eco-environmental quality in the same period. Second, there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between eco-environmental quality and urban space expansion. Third, the impact of HSR on eco-environmental quality is heterogeneous, mainly manifested in different cities and urban agglomerations. It means that the government should focus on the differences in the economic foundation and development characteristics of various regions, steadily push forward the construction and operation of the HSR, and speed up the renovation of existing lines to help the green development of cities. The research results provide a policy basis for the government to handle the relationship between infrastructure construction and eco-environmental quality, and effectively promote green sustainable development.
Publisher: San Francisco: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290840
PMID: 37643195
Source: Open Access: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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