Achieving sustainable soil and water protection: The perspective of agricultural water price regulation on environmental protection
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-28-2021
Abstract
With the development of Chinese economy, more and more attention has been paid to environmental protection, the implementation of water price policy affects economic and environmental changes in China. This paper analyzes the impact of water price policy on agricultural land use and the scale of water pollution discharge in 240 cities in China between 2001 and 2017, by including data from China Urban Statistical Yearbook and China Land & Resources Almanac. The theoretical analysis of this study indicates that the optimal scale of pollution depends on the local initial endowment, economic investment capital and the marginal cost of environmental pollution caused by government's economic activities. Furtherly, the economic activities have a worsening impact on environmental pollution, but when the government implements environmental protection and water price policy measures in response to environmental pollution caused by economic activities, it has a significant impact on the decline in the scale of pollution. The government has promoted the pollution suppression model in the formulation of water prices, which has internalized the external cost of pollution in economic activities and can effectively reduce the scale of agricultural water pollution discharge.
Keywords
Agricultural water conversation, Land use, Water pollution, Water price policy
Funders
Soft science project of Zhejiang province (2020C35025),Human resources and social security scientific research project of Zhejiang province (2020008),Wenzhou philosophy and social science planning project (20wsk079)
Publication Title
Agricultural Water Management
Volume
245
Publisher
Elsevier Masson
Publisher Location
RADARWEG 29, 1043 NX AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS