中国人口·资源与环境2024，Vol.34Issue(6)：56-64,9.DOI:10.12062/cpre.20231220
数字经济对资源型城市低碳转型的影响及作用路径
Digital economy and low-carbon transformation of resource-based cities:mechanisms and empirical evidence
摘要
Abstract
The digital economy,with its'green attributes,'is considered instrumental in accelerating the low-carbon transformation of cities.However,it is still controversial whether the digital economy can effectively promote the low-carbon transformation of resource-based cities with a single industrial structure and significant energy consumption.In view of this,this study took panel data from 111 Chinese resource-based cities from 2011 to 2020 as a sample and analyzed the impact and paths of the digital economy on the low-car-bon transformation of resource-based cities using a two-way fixed-effects model,while also considering heterogeneity from the perspec-tives of city type and the degree of economic development.The results showed that:① The digital economy played a significant positive role in promoting the low-carbon transformation of resource-based cities.This conclusion held when constructing Bartik instrumental variables to deal with possible endogeneity issues.Subsequent robustness tests conducted in three different ways all confirmed the ro-bustness of this finding.② The path analysis results revealed that reducing resource mismatch and improving labor productivity were important mechanisms through which the digital economy promoted the reduction of carbon emission intensity in resource-based cities.③ Heterogeneity analysis showed that the low-carbon transformation effect of the digital economy was only manifested in declining and regenerating resource-based cities,while in growing and mature resource-based cities,the effect was not significant.Additionally,the low-carbon transformation effect of the digital economy was more pronounced in resource-based cities with a high degree of economic development.Therefore,based on the findings of this study,the following policy recommendations are put forward:firstly,for the low-carbon transformation of resource-based cities,the government must fully recognize and emphasize the catalytic role of the digital econo-my;secondly,leverage the resource allocation effect and labor production effect of the digital economy in promoting the low-carbon transformation of resource-based cities;and lastly,formulate differentiated digital economy development strategies and low-carbon transformation measures tailored to the differentiated characteristics and development conditions of resource-based cities.关键词
数字经济/资源型城市/低碳转型/碳排放强度Key words
digital economy/resource-based cities/low-carbon transformation/carbon emission intensity分类
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骆行,刘子俊,田云..数字经济对资源型城市低碳转型的影响及作用路径[J].中国人口·资源与环境,2024,34(6):56-64,9.基金项目
国家自然科学基金青年项目"《巴黎协定》下中国农业碳排放权省域分配及协同减排策略研究"(批准号:71903197). （批准号:71903197）
