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eISSN: 2083-5906
ISSN: 1230-1485
ISSN: 1230-1485
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Spatial-Temporal Evolution Analysis
of Regional MWPIIs and the Development
Path under the Integrated Strategy
in the Yangtze River Delta, China
1
Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences,
591/7/622, Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai, 200020, Shanghai, China
Submission date: 2024-04-29
Final revision date: 2024-07-28
Acceptance date: 2024-08-03
Online publication date: 2024-10-28
Publication date: 2025-08-20
Corresponding author
Liping Cao
Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 591/7/622, Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai, 200020, Shanghai, China
Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 591/7/622, Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai, 200020, Shanghai, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(5):6105-6120
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TOPICS
ABSTRACT
In the process of industry modernization, the manufacturing industry became an industry with
intensive water pollution emissions. The major water pollutants discharged by the manufacturing
sector in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) accounted for more than 20% of the national total in China.
The gross sales value of manufacturing industries in the YRD accounted for nearly 30% of the national
gross sales value. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately identify the types of water pollution-intensive
industries (WPIIs) in regions with developed manufacturing industries and water networks like the YRD
in China, and analyze the spatial-temporal evolution of manufacturing water pollution-intensive
industries (MWPIIs) of the YRD for both 2018 and 2020. The comparison method is used to analyze
the spatial-temporal evolution in the YRD. Through empirical research, this paper reveals a certain
dislocation in the development of manufacturing clustering in the three provinces and one municipality
in the YRD. However, it is found that MWPIIs predominantly fall into Large-scale and Super-intensive
types, indicating that more than half of water pollution emissions from MWPIIs exhibit both high-scale
and intensity characteristics. Therefore, the suggestions for development paths and integrated strategies
of MWPIIs are put forward to achieve enhanced regional water environmental governance performance
through collaborative environmental governance in the YRD.
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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