ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Research on the Supervision Mechanism
and Effect of Environmental Regulation
– Re-Estimation Based on China’s Corn Planting
Fertilizer Pollution
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School of Economics and Management, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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Postdoctoral Research Station of Heilongjiang Property Rights Exchange Group
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Chongqing Rural Revitalization Research Institute, Chongqing 402100, China
Submission date: 2021-09-23
Final revision date: 2022-02-27
Acceptance date: 2022-03-29
Online publication date: 2022-07-05
Publication date: 2022-09-01
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2022;31(5):4313-4330
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ABSTRACT
Environmental regulation is an important means of agricultural governance of agricultural nonpoint
source pollution, and environmental supervision, as an important supplement to it, plays a key
role in pollution governance. The relationships between environmental regulation and environmental
supervision and the pollution of agricultural facial sources are of great theoretical and practical
significance in achieving ecological livability and governance effectively, optimizing the theory of
environmental separation, and promoting green development in agriculture. A theoretical model
between environmental regulation and environmental supervision and the behavior of farmers‘ facial
source pollution was constructed based on risk expectation theory, the fertilizer pollution equivalents
during maize cultivation were estimated using the data of Maize Cultivation in each province of
China from 2006 to 2018, and the relationships between environmental regulation and environmental
supervision and agricultural non-point source pollution were analyzed by the dynamic panel model and
the threshold effect model.
The study found that: firstly, fertilizer pollution equivalents increased year by year with corn
planting, and in addition to planting benefits, the increase in production costs would also exacerbate
fertilizer pollution through interelement substitution; secondly, the impacts of environmental regulation
on the pollution equivalents of maize fertilizers are inverted U-shaped, and reasonable environmental
regulation is helpful to effectively restrain the growth of agricultural non-point source pollution;
thirdly, the environmental supervision will linearly regulate the inverted U-shaped relationship between
environmental regulation and agricultural non-point source pollution, and strengthen the inhibitory
effect of environmental regulation on pollution growth; fourthly, the impacts of environmental supervision on agricultural facet source pollution will exhibit two threshold characteristics as the
intensity of environmental regulation changes, from insignificant effects to promoting effects, and turn
to inhibiting effects after surpassing the second threshold. To propose differentiated and environmental
supervision measures against regional environmental regulation intensity, strengthening environmental
regulation, then separating the two-step go and conquer pollution model of regulation and regulation.