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Air pollutant emissions induced by rural-to-urban migration during China's urbanization (2005-2015)

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ese.2022.100166

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Urbanization; Population migration; Air pollutant emission reduction; Input -output model; Structural decomposition analysis

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [72025401, 71974108, 71690244]
  2. Tsinghua University-Inditex Sustainable Development Fund

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China's rapid urbanization has led to population migration from rural to urban regions, resulting in increased air pollutant emissions, particularly in terms of NOx, SO2, and primary PM2.5. The widening gap between urban and rural investment and consumption is the main cause of the increase in migration-induced emissions, while the decrease in emission intensity plays a significant role in reducing emissions. Although urbanization currently poses additional environmental pressure, the reconciliation of urbanization and air quality improvement is possible through updated policies.
As the world's most populous country, China has witnessed rapid urbanization in recent decades, with population migration from rural to urban (RU) regions as the major driving force. Due to the large gap between rural and urban consumption and investment level, large-scale RU migration impacts air pollutant emissions and creates extra uncertainties for air quality improvement. Here, we integrated population migration assessment, an environmentally extended input-output model and structural decomposition analysis to evaluate the NOx, SO2 and primary PM2.5 emissions induced by RU migration during China's urbanization from 2005 to 2015. The results show that RU migration increased air pollutant emissions, while the increases in NOx and SO2 emissions peaked in approximately 2010 at 2.4 Mt and 2.2 Mt, accounting for 9.2% and 8.7% of the national emissions, respectively. The primary PM2.5 emissions induced by RU migration also peaked in approximately 2012 at 0.3 Mt, accounting for 2.8% of the national emissions. The indirect emissions embodied in consumption and investment increased, while household direct emissions decreased. The widening gap between urban and rural investment and consumption exerted a major increasing effect on migration-induced emissions; in contrast, the falling emission intensity contributed the most to the decreasing effect benefitting from end-of-pipe control technology applications as well as improving energy efficiency. The peak of air pollutant emissions induced by RU migration indicates that although urbanization currently creates extra environmental pressure in China, it is possible to reconcile urbanization and air quality improvement in the future with updating urbanization and air pollution control policies. (C) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.

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