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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
How Does Urban Green Development Affect
Land Use Efficiency? Empirical Analysis
Based on 285 Cities in China
1
School of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China
Submission date: 2024-03-21
Final revision date: 2024-04-13
Acceptance date: 2024-05-13
Online publication date: 2024-09-03
Publication date: 2025-01-28
Corresponding author
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(3):3425-3439
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ABSTRACT
Investigating the mechanism of urban green development on land use efficiency holds significant
practical implications for enhancing land use efficiency in Chinese cities and achieving carbon neutrality
goals. Based on panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2005 to 2020, this paper
employs the super-efficiency SBM model, panel cluster analysis, and spatial visualization methods
to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution and spatial differences of land use efficiency and explore the
impact mechanism of urban green development on land use efficiency. The study reveals that: (1) Urban
green development significantly promotes the improvement of land use efficiency, and this conclusion
remains robust after conducting sensitivity tests, such as using terrain undulation and river density
as instrumental variables. (2) Mechanism analysis indicates that urban green development mainly
enhances land use efficiency through agglomeration effects, technological effects, and structural effects.
(3) The impact of urban green development on land use efficiency exhibits heterogeneity. Compared
to the eastern region, the promotion effect of urban green development on land use efficiency in the
western and central regions is more significant; compared to coastal cities, the influence of urban green
development on inland cities is more pronounced.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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