The environmental pressures on industrial firms, involving government, public and market etc. , come from exterior of the firms and force the firms to improve their environmental behaviours. The industry in Jiangsu Province along the Yangtze River has been developing rapidly in recent years, and thus inducing many environmental problems. The increasing environmental problems in consequence enhanced the environmental pressures on the industrial firms from exterior. In order to get insight into the structure, degree and changes of environmental presures on the firms so as to adjust and innovate the environmental policies for enhancing industrial greening, this article studies the impacts of all kinds of environmental pressures on industrial firms and their contributions based on dataset of questionaire from concerning firms with LISREL model. This study revealed that in the study region the pressure from government administration is still the main pressure to the industrial firms, and the improvement of the environmental behaviors of industrial firms is also made by the force of government. Although it is becoming more and more important, the pressures from market, especially the pressures from domestic market have not been the main ones to the industrial firms, and the pressures from the public are also very weak. But in the developed countries, the pressures from market and public are the main environmental ones to the industrial firms. Therefore, there is a long way for China to go to adjust the structure of environmental pressures. In the future, necessary measures should be taken to improve the environmental pressures from market and the public while with the pressure from government administration being sustained.
WANG Yi-hu, CHEN Wen, CHEN Jiang-long, DUAN Xue-jun
. Analysis of the environmental pressures on industrial firms with LISREL model in the zone along the Yangtze River of Jiangsu Province[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2007
, 26(4)
: 705
-711
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DOI: 10.11821/yj2007040007
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