Pollution Charges, Community Pressure, and Abatement Cost of Industrial Pollution in China
The author evaluates the strength of the effect that community pressure and pollution charges have on industrial pollution control in China, and estimates the marginal cost of pollution abatement. He examines a well-documented set of plant-level data, combined with community-level data, to assess th...
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okr-10986-215792021-04-23T14:04:03Z Pollution Charges, Community Pressure, and Abatement Cost of Industrial Pollution in China Wang, Hua abatement abatement costs air pollution channel channels coastal areas COD construction discharge behavior economic development economists effective strategy effluent emission emissions empirical analysis empirical studies environmental impact environmental issues environmental policy environmental protection environmental quality environmental regulations environmental sciences externalities farmers gas income industrial plants industrial pollution industrial pollution control industrial water input prices marginal abatement marginal abatement costs marginal cost market competition market prices noise oxygen paper industry pipelines policy instruments political economy pollutant polluters pollution pollution abatement pollution charge pollution charges pollution control pollution discharge pollution levy pollution levy system pollution reduction pollution regulation population density production process production processes productivity programs solid waste textile industry wastewater water pollution water pollution control industrial pollution control pollution control costs community demand abatement ranges pollution levy system marginal costs industrial processes pricing schemes pollution measurement The author evaluates the strength of the effect that community pressure and pollution charges have on industrial pollution control in China, and estimates the marginal cost of pollution abatement. He examines a well-documented set of plant-level data, combined with community-level data, to assess the impact of pollution charges and community pressure on industrial behavior in China. He constructs and estimates an industrial organic water pollution discharge model for plants that violate standards for pollution discharge, pay pollution charges, and are constantly under community pressure to further abate pollution. He creates a model and estimates implicit prices for pollution discharges from community pressure, which are determined jointly by the explicit price, the pollution levy. He finds that the implicit discharge price is at least as high as the explicit price. In other words, community pressure not only exists, but may be as strong an incentive as the pollution charge is for industrial firms to control pollution in China. The author's modeling approach also provides a way to estimate the marginal cost of pollution abatement. The empirical results show that the current marginal cost of abatement is about twice the effective charge rate in China. 2015-03-11T14:43:06Z 2015-03-11T14:43:06Z 2000-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21579 en_US Policy Research Working Papers;No. 2337 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific China |
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The author evaluates the strength of the effect that community pressure and pollution charges have on industrial pollution control in China, and estimates the marginal cost of pollution abatement. He examines a well-documented set of plant-level data, combined with community-level data, to assess the impact of pollution charges and community pressure on industrial behavior in China. He constructs and estimates an industrial organic water pollution discharge model for plants that violate standards for pollution discharge, pay pollution charges, and are constantly under community pressure to further abate pollution. He creates a model and estimates implicit prices for pollution discharges from community pressure, which are determined jointly by the explicit price, the pollution levy. He finds that the implicit discharge price is at least as high as the explicit price. In other words, community pressure not only exists, but may be as strong an incentive as the pollution charge is for industrial firms to control pollution in China. The author's modeling approach also provides a way to estimate the marginal cost of pollution abatement. The empirical results show that the current marginal cost of abatement is about twice the effective charge rate in China. |
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Pollution Charges, Community Pressure, and Abatement Cost of Industrial Pollution in China |
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Pollution Charges, Community Pressure, and Abatement Cost of Industrial Pollution in China |
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Pollution Charges, Community Pressure, and Abatement Cost of Industrial Pollution in China |
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