Authors：Dr. Canfei HE & Dr. Yi ZHOU
Published: 12-01-2016
Summary: Based on the deep understanding of the relationship between urban economic development and environmental pollution in China during the transition period, this book summarizes the global and Chinese environmental problems. This book combines the research perspective and research framework of environmental economic geography from the perspective of economic geography. On this basis, this book constructs the theoretical framework of the environmental effects of economic activities on different geographical scales and the impact of environmental regulation and environmental pollution on the spatial structure of economic activities. It also emphasizes the impact of economic transformation system on the urban environmental impact of urban development. Combined with deductive methods and logical positivist ideas, this book from the national, urban, industrial and enterprise multi-scale multi-perspective, in-depth study of the transitional economic system, environmental regulation and other effects on environmental pollution emissions, through the establishment of Pollution-Based Enterprise Location Theory Model, and studied the influence of "environment" on enterprise location, environmental behavior, enterprise spatial dynamics and its geographical pattern evolution. This book studies show that the transitional economic system is an important perspective to interpret China's environmental pollution; and the "environment" also began to go beyond the location of the resource endowment and other attributes, which implied the cost, power, welfare and other attributes which is an important force in the organization of economic activity. The environmental effect of economic activities has become an important starting point for re-understanding "economic geography".
Keywords：Environmental Economic Geography
