Assessing Impacts and Determinants of Urban Sustainability on Improving Air Quality Based on Entropy Weight Method in Coastal Cities, China

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

With rapid socio-economic development and accelerated urbanization, air pollution has become one of the biggest concerns worldwide. Moreover, air quality affects people’s quality of life and is addressed in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is important and meaningful to investigate the relationship between improved air quality and the level of urban sustainability to curb urban air pollution more effectively and provide a scientific basis for promoting sustainable urbanization. In this research, we employed the entropy weight method to measure the urban sustainable development level using the strength of urbanization efficiency indices, coordination degree indices, and sustainable urbanization indices from China’s coastal cities panel data from 2014 to 2019. Next, we utilized the fixed effects model and dynamic panel model (System GMM) to estimate the impacts of sustainable urban development on improving air quality. According to the analysis, the main results were as follows: (1) Air pollution and urban sustainability indicated significant differences between 46 coastal cities in China; (2) Estimating the dynamic relationship between air pollution and urban sustainability, we found that air pollution has certain inertia: a 1% increase in the previous pollution concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 will result in a 0.8% and 0.7% increase in the current pollution concentration of PM10 and PM2.5. (3) Higher levels of urbanization effect, coordination degree, and sustainable urbanization contribute to decreasing the pollution concentration of PM10 and PM2.5 in China.

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