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Title Does Digitalization Facilitate Environmental Governance Performance? An Empirical Analysis Based on the PLS-SEM Model in China
ID_Doc 32899
Authors Guo, JJ; Shen, X
Title Does Digitalization Facilitate Environmental Governance Performance? An Empirical Analysis Based on the PLS-SEM Model in China
Year 2024
Published Sustainability, 16.0, 7
DOI 10.3390/su16073026
Abstract The development of digitalization has brought about profound changes in government governance, enterprise production and residents' daily lives. Whether digitalization inhibits environmental pollution is a question that needs to be answered urgently, as it is of great significance for addressing conflicts between human beings and the ecological environment. Moreover, it provides a theoretical basis for China's green and sustainable development. China's environmental governance model is in a new stage of "government, enterprise, and public" multifaceted governance. Therefore, this paper empirically analyzes the impact of digitalization on environmental governance performance and its mediating effect from a multidimensional perspective, using inter-provincial panel data from 2011 to 2020 as a sample and employing structural equation modeling. It is found that digitalization can significantly improve environmental governance performance, while mechanism analysis shows that digitalization improves environmental governance performance through improving government environmental regulation, public environmental participation, and corporate green technology innovation. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the contribution of digitization to environmental governance performance varies significantly according to geographic region and regional innovative capacity. Based on this, policy recommendations are proposed in terms of digitalization construction, the government, public and enterprises to form a multi-governance environmental governance system among the government, public and enterprises.
Author Keywords digitalization; environmental governance performance; green technology innovation
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:001200958900001
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/7/3026/pdf?version=1712299674
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