Allocation of Inter-Industry Environmental Responsibilities Based on Economic Benefits: Principles and Indicators*

Zhang Youguo ( 张友国 )
Institute of Quantitative Economics and Technical Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, China

Abstract:

Rational inter-industry allocation of environmental responsibilities has great significance to instituting effective policies on industrial environment and transforming the pattern of economic development. From the perspective of economic benefit and industrial linkage, this paper discusses the issue of inter-industry allocation of environmental responsibilities. Based on input-output model and three responsibility principles (producer responsibility, consumer responsibility and shared responsibility), this paper develops seven industrial environmental responsibility indicators and conducts an empirical analysis on the SO2 emission responsibilities at China’s industry level. Results indicate that all these indicators can avoid the double calculation of environmental responsibilities and results using different indicators have significant differences. Some industries such as power, heat production and supply may have little difference of the relative ranking of environmental responsibility under different indicators, but the magnitude of specific assumed responsibilities may have significant changes. Environmental responsibilities of some other industries (such as construction) may seem not important under certain indicators but can be among the most significant under some other indicators. More importantly, despite closeconnections between these indicators, they reflect different mechanisms of environmental responsibility allocation and have totally different policy significance.
Key words: allocation of inter-industry environmental responsibilities, economic benefits, input/output analysis

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