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It is a major challenge of ecological sustainable development to seek ways to increase the utilization rate of water resources to maintain a particular economic growth. This dilemma can be effectively solved by adjusting the distribution of factors from a spatial perspective. However, rare empirical studies have explored the effect of the distribution adjustment on water environment efficiency from the urban spatial structure perspective. Thus, the aim of this study is to measure the spatial structure of urban districts from two dimensions, examine the water environmental efficiency of 156 urban districts in China between 2002 and 2016, and then primarily analyze the correlation between urban spatial structure and water environmental efficiency. The empirical study suggests that water environmental efficiency in most urban districts has increased in the study period, which is high in the eastern region and low in the central and western regions. The average value of water environmental efficiency has increased from 0.275 in 2002 to 0.406 in 2016. Moreover, urban districts more inclined to polycentricity achieve a higher water environmental efficiency on the full sample. Every incre

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Author

Enyu Zeng; Pengfei Li; Jing Zhou

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)