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Bioenergy for Sustainable Rural Development: Elevating Government Governance with Environmental Policy in China

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  • Yue Li

    (School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430079, China)

  • Muhammad Tayyab Sohail

    (Department of Business Administration, ILMA University, Karachi 74900, Pakistan
    GUST Centre for Sustainable Development, Gulf University for Science and Technology, West Mishref 32093, Kuwait
    Department of Public Administration, School of Business, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan)

  • Yanan Zhang

    (School of Humanities and Law, Jiangsu Ocean University, Lianyungang 222005, China)

  • Sana Ullah

    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Near East University, TRNC, Nicosia 99138, Turkey
    Advanced Research Centre, European University of Lefke, Lefke, Northern Cyprus, TR-10, Mersin 99010, Turkey)

Abstract

Energy is not only the crucial driver of economic activities within rural areas. Conventional energy sources are crucial for the prosperity of rural areas; however, they also prove detrimental to the rural ecosystem. To achieve sustainable rural development, increasing the consumption of renewable energy sources can prove vital. Among all the renewable energy sources, bioenergy is the cheapest and easiest to produce in rural areas. Therefore, it is crucial to estimate the impact of bioenergy on the rural development of China. Thus, the primary purpose of this analysis is to analyze the impact of bioenergy and environmental policy stringency on the rural development of China from 1995 to 2022 by employing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and quantile autoregressive distributed lag (QARDL) framework. The results highlight the significance of bio-energy for rural development in the short and long run. Likewise, environmental policy stringency is also a vital factor in fostering short- and long-run rural development. Based on these outcomes, it is recommended that policymakers integrate bioenergy development policies into broader rural development strategies.

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  • Yue Li & Muhammad Tayyab Sohail & Yanan Zhang & Sana Ullah, 2024. "Bioenergy for Sustainable Rural Development: Elevating Government Governance with Environmental Policy in China," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-18, December.
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