Abstract
Natural disasters, new urbanization, and urban renewal activities generated a large amount of construction and demolition waste (C&DW), and managing C&DW has become an urgent problem to be solved in the construction of “Zero-waste cities.” Based on the calculation of C&DW generation in China from 2005 to 2019, this study explored spatial heterogeneity and factors influencing C&DW in China by Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) method. The results showed that C&DW generation in China increased every year, and the overall distribution was characterized as “high in the east and low in the west,” with distinct regional differences. The generation intensity of C&DW in China showed a decreasing trend every year. The regions with rapid growth of C&DW generation were concentrated in the eastern coastal areas, and there was significant spatial heterogeneity in the growth trend. There is a significant spatial autocorrelation in C&DW generation in China. The factors of population size, per capita gross domestic product, and the scale of the construction industry played a positive role in promoting C&DW generation in each province, whereas labor efficiency played a negative role inhibiting C&DW generation, which has a significant temporal and spatial heterogeneity. The results extend C&DW management theory and help the policy maker to formulate regional differentiation policies as China and developing country.
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The research was supported by the Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education (No. 20YJCZH097), Guangdong Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science (No.GD19CGL23), and General project of Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (No. DUFE2020Y7).
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Wang, Z., Zhang, Z. & Liu, J. Exploring spatial heterogeneity and factors influencing construction and demolition waste in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 53269–53292 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19554-8
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