Does environmental protection promote economic development? From the perspective of coupling coordination between enviro
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Does environmental protection promote economic development? From the perspective of coupling coordination between environmental protection and economic development Benhong Peng 1,2 & Xin Sheng 1 & Guo Wei 3 Received: 21 February 2020 / Accepted: 23 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Environmental protection and economic development seem to be controversial, and there have been opposite views for a long time. Hence, in this article, representative indicators of economy and environment are selected to analyze the external correlation and the internal relationship between environment and economy from the perspective of coupling coordination. The results show that environmental protection may slow down economic growth in the short term. However, their correlation becomes increasingly stronger with higher degree of coupling, and as the result in the long run, environmental protection can gradually improve the infrastructure of economic development, and environmental and economic development will become more closely coordinated in promoting green economic development. It is demonstrated that an effective way to promoting economic development is to promote scientific and technological innovation and cultivate high-end talents and improve regional cooperation, which can reduce the negative effect of environmental protection on economic development. It is also necessary to enhance the positive impact of environmental protection on economic development by transforming the mode of economic development, developing the environmental protection industry, and raising people’s awareness of environmental protection. Thus, the coupling coordination between environment and economy can sustain, with both continuously bolstered. Keywords Environmental protection . Economic development . Coupling degree . Coordination degree . Temporal and spatial difference
Introduction Economic development is the material basis for achieving modernization (Dawson 1980), but the rapid development of Responsible Editor: Eyup Dogan * Benhong Peng [email protected] * Xin Sheng [email protected] Guo Wei [email protected] 1
School of Management Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, People’s Republic of China
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Binjiang College, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 214105, People’s Republic of China
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC 28372, USA
economy is often accompanied with the destruction of natural environment and the massive consumption of energy. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, with sustainable development deeply rooted in people’s hearts, environmental issues have gradually become the focus of attention. In recent years, environmental pollution, ecological damage, excessive resource consumption, and other problems are becoming very serious (Andrée et al. 2019). Faced with the severe environmental s
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