The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China
Port construction and operations significantly impact the surrounding environment, creating an urgent need to explore pathways for enhancing port sustainability. Public environmental concern plays a vital role in driving environmental governance and offers new directions for improving port sustainab...
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| description | Port construction and operations significantly impact the surrounding environment, creating an urgent need to explore pathways for enhancing port sustainability. Public environmental concern plays a vital role in driving environmental governance and offers new directions for improving port sustainability. Using panel data from 44 coastal ports and their respective cities between 2010 and 2021, this study empirically analyzes the impact of public environmental concern on port sustainability and its underlying mechanisms. Additionally, we examine how this impact varies across different city samples. The baseline regression results demonstrate that public environmental concern has a significant positive impact on port sustainability. This finding remains robust after a series of robustness checks and addressing endogeneity issues. Mechanism analysis reveals that public environmental concern can enhance port sustainability by increasing local government environmental investments. Furthermore, the development of digital infrastructure can amplify the positive effect of public environmental concern on port sustainability. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the positive impact of public environmental concern on port sustainability is stronger in cities with lower government environmental regulation intensity, lower pollution emissions, higher education levels, and greater transparency in environmental information disclosure. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7bafba8ee9ba4a6eb57c132eeef4a8c02025-01-06T05:13:22ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452025-01-011110.3389/fmars.2024.14542421454242The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in ChinaJia Shen0Xiaohong Ren1Zhitao Feng2Jiayun Nie3School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, ChinaSchool of Traffic and Transportation, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, ChinaPort construction and operations significantly impact the surrounding environment, creating an urgent need to explore pathways for enhancing port sustainability. Public environmental concern plays a vital role in driving environmental governance and offers new directions for improving port sustainability. Using panel data from 44 coastal ports and their respective cities between 2010 and 2021, this study empirically analyzes the impact of public environmental concern on port sustainability and its underlying mechanisms. Additionally, we examine how this impact varies across different city samples. The baseline regression results demonstrate that public environmental concern has a significant positive impact on port sustainability. This finding remains robust after a series of robustness checks and addressing endogeneity issues. Mechanism analysis reveals that public environmental concern can enhance port sustainability by increasing local government environmental investments. Furthermore, the development of digital infrastructure can amplify the positive effect of public environmental concern on port sustainability. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that the positive impact of public environmental concern on port sustainability is stronger in cities with lower government environmental regulation intensity, lower pollution emissions, higher education levels, and greater transparency in environmental information disclosure.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1454242/fullport sustainabilitypublic environmental concernenvironmental governancegovernment environmental investmentsdigital infrastructure |
| spellingShingle | Jia Shen Xiaohong Ren Zhitao Feng Jiayun Nie The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China Frontiers in Marine Science port sustainability public environmental concern environmental governance government environmental investments digital infrastructure |
| title | The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China |
| title_full | The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China |
| title_fullStr | The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China |
| title_short | The impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability: evidence from 44 port cities in China |
| title_sort | impact of public environmental concerns on port sustainability evidence from 44 port cities in china |
| topic | port sustainability public environmental concern environmental governance government environmental investments digital infrastructure |
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