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Title Globalization and the environment of China / edited by Boqiong Yang, Maoliang Bu
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations
Series Frontiers of economics and globalization, 1574-8715 ; v. 14
Frontiers of economics and globalization ; 14
Contents Comparative environmental regulation and foreign investment inflows : is China a pollution haven? / Maoliang Bu, ChinTe Lin, Shuwen Zhai -- Environmental impact of foreign direct investment towards host countries / Boqiong Yang, Jun Yang, Qiran Zhao -- Environmental impact of foreign vs. domestic capital investment in China / Boqiong Yang, Stephan Brosig, Jianguo Chen -- Foreign direct investment and pollution havens hypothesis : firm-level panel data evidence from China / Maoliang Bu, Shuwen Zhai, Jie Zhang, Wenping Zheng -- Are multinational enterprises in China cleaner or dirtier than their local counterparts? / Boqiong Yang, Jianguo Chen -- Corporate social responsibility and the pollution haven hypothesis : evidence from multinationals' investment decision in China / Maoliang Bu [and others] -- Environmental regulation and firm productivity in China / Sanfeng Zhang, Maoliang Bu, Huafan Yang -- Environmental regulation and the heterogeneity of industrial selection of foreign investment / Boqiong Yang, Xiaobing Wang, Jun Yang -- The distribution of foreign direct investment in China's pollution-intense industries / Boqiong Yang -- Does lax environmental regulations attract Chinese outward foreign investment? Evidence from micro-data / Maoliang Bu, Ruifeng Huo
Summary This book is timely in its investigation of the environmental influence of globalization and China. Volume 14 focusses on : theoretic modeling of environmental impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on host countries, international openness and corporate environmental performance in China, environmental regulation and Chinese firm productivity, industrial sector data in China, environmental impact of foreign vs. domestic capital investment in China, globalization and climate change and new empirical panel data evidence This book answers the following questions : does FDI affect the environment of host countries? How international openness influences China's corporate environmental performance? Is lax environmental regulation attractive for multinationals to invest in China? The impact of corporate social responsibility on multinationals? Does FDI play a role trade and ISO14001 certification? Can rigorous environmental regulation enhance Chinese firm productivity? Does FDI concentrate in pollution intensive sectors in China? Is globalization good or bad for climate change? How does FDI and social corporate responsibility stack up against the pollution haven hypothesis?
Subject Global environmental change.
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- China.
SUBJECT China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99010023
Form Electronic book
Author Bu, Maoliang.
Yang, Boqiong.
ISBN 9781784411787 (electronic bk.)