发表期刊：Energy Economics

发表时间：Available online: 9 February 2022

作者及单位：Xiaoping He（China Center for Energy Economics Research, School of Economics, Xiamen University, China）

摘 要：Rapid urbanization not only consumes substantial amounts of valuable land resources but also changes the pattern of land-use.  Diversity of land use measures the functional composition of urban land and reflects the structure of urban activities from a land perspective. This paper explores the relationship between urbanization and energy use, by empirically investigating the impact of land use diversity   on  energy consumption in urban areas with a panel dataset of prefecture-level cities in China. The instrumental variables method is employed to address the endogeneity of land-use diversity. It is found that the land-use diversity of China’s cities has exerted an energy-saving effect, while the effect only works for medium-sized cities. The findings imply the possibility of promoting urban energy saving by moderate  control of city size and diversity of land use.

关键词：Energy efficiency; Land use; Urbanization; Instrumental variables