Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change on Bean Cultivation in China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Variable Selection
2.2. Modeling
2.3. Data Sources and Processing
3. Model Results and Conclusions
3.1. Testing for Spatial Effects
3.2. Model Selection and Robustness Tests
3.3. Model Results
4. Discussion
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Explained and Explanatory Variables | Name of Indicator |
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Production of beans | Bean yields (per unit) |
Climatic environment | Effective cumulative temperature |
Precipitation (meteorology) | |
Extent of disaster | |
Carbon Emissions | |
Sulfur dioxide emissions from exhaust gases | |
Total wastewater discharge | |
Economic market | Food benefit–cost ratio |
Human cultivation behavior | Fertilizer use per unit area |
Effective irrigated area ratio | |
Level of technological development | Rural electricity consumption |
Variable Name | Variable Identification | Unit | 2005–2009 | 2010–2014 | 2015–2019 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average Value | Standard Deviation | Average Value | Standard Deviation | Average Value | Standard Deviation | |||
Bean Yields | Yield | kg/ha | 1877.857 | 565.6416 | 1921.798 | 566.7584 | 2024.988 | 581.6842 |
Effective Cumulative Temperature | EAT | degrees centigrade | 2566.77 | 972.2334 | 2525.814 | 948.9907 | 2598.245 | 969.6687 |
Precipitation (Meteorology) | PRE | mm | 894.4729 | 416.7491 | 933.9605 | 436.7277 | 990.1309 | 478.927 |
Extent of Disaster | DISASTER | times/ha | 0.3049891 | 0.156439 | 0.2023446 | 0.1127987 | 0.1386728 | 0.1045211 |
Carbon Footprint | COAL | million tons | 256.1646 | 166.7895 | 396.4381 | 262.6799 | 446.6218 | 330.7543 |
Sulfur Dioxide Emissions from Exhaust Gases | SO2 | million tons | 90.30312 | 44.34946 | 79.5552 | 37.38318 | 33.45112 | 26.404 |
Total Wastewater Discharge | WASTE | million tons | 198,086.6 | 153076.4 | 245,094.4 | 183,915.9 | 265,363.5 | 203,324 |
Food Benefit–cost Ratio | RATIO | 1.0303 | 0.0919729 | 1.024677 | 0.0604204 | 0.9843792 | 0.0406275 | |
Fertilizer Use Per Unit Area | FER | kg/ha | 326.8883 | 108.8031 | 366.5041 | 126.2272 | 360.5308 | 134.1082 |
Effective Irrigated Area Ratio | IRRI | 0.3855871 | 0.1445012 | 0.4070513 | 0.1502828 | 0.423296 | 0.1480573 | |
Rural Electricity Consumption | POWER | billion kWh | 201.9817 | 286.5458 | 282.9348 | 402.312 | 323.7136 | 450.8923 |
Test Coefficient | Bean Yields |
---|---|
Moran‘s I | 0.201 ** |
Geary’s c | 0.733 ** |
Inspection Method | Test Results | |
---|---|---|
Ln(Yield) | LLC | −9.013 *** |
HARDI | 15.238 *** | |
IPS | −1.781 * | |
EAT | LLC | −11.331 *** |
HARDI | 7.187 *** | |
IPS | −2.304 *** | |
PRE | LLC | −12.314 *** |
HARDI | 1.216 | |
IPS | −2.236 *** | |
DISASTER | LLC | −14.212 *** |
HARDI | 12.848 | |
IPS | −2.550 *** | |
COAL | LLC | −4.327 ** |
HARDI | 37.559 *** | |
IPS | −1.175 | |
SO2 | LLC | −3.725 |
HARDI | 33.522 *** | |
IPS | −0.717 | |
WASTE | LLC | −5.141 * |
HARDI | 34.790 *** | |
IPS | −0.988 | |
RATIO | LLC | −19.627 *** |
HARDI | −1.484 | |
IPS | −3.602 *** | |
FER | LLC | −8.599 *** |
HARDI | 27.550 *** | |
IPS | −1.588 | |
IRRI | LLC | −12.055 *** |
HARDI | 28.060 *** | |
IPS | −2.329 *** | |
POWER | LLC | −7.422 *** |
HARDI | 37.509 *** | |
IPS | −1.374 |
Spatial Error | |
---|---|
Moran’s I | 15.347 *** |
Lagrange multiplier | 204.345 *** |
Robust Lagrange multiplier | 13.433 *** |
Coef. | Std. Err. | p-Value | |
---|---|---|---|
_Cons | 7.200671 *** | 0.2130221 | 0.000 |
EAT | 0.000091 * | 0.0000525 | 0.083 |
PRE | 0.0000683 | 0.0000633 | 0.280 |
DISASTER | −0.1533701 ** | 0.0771955 | 0.047 |
COAL | 2.58929 *** | 0.7248598 | 0.000 |
SO2 | −0.4844776 | 3.493605 | 0.890 |
WASTE | −0.0051428 ** | 0.0022797 | 0.024 |
RATIO | −0.1334411 | 0.1251934 | 0.286 |
FER | −0.0001154 | 0.0002452 | 0.638 |
IRRI | 0.6176916 *** | 0.2025145 | 0.002 |
POWER | 0.0000286 | 0.0001004 | 0.775 |
Coef. | Std. Err. | p-Value | |
---|---|---|---|
EAT | −0.0002578 *** | 0.0000468 | 0.000 |
PRE | 0.0004895 *** | 0.0000757 | 0.000 |
DISASTER | −0.6823345 *** | 0.1305011 | 0.000 |
COAL | −0.00009 | 0.000079 | 0.254 |
SO2 | 0.0015519 *** | 0.0006016 | 0.010 |
WASTE | 7.67 × 10−7 *** | 2.38 × 10−7 | 0.001 |
RATIO | 0.227392 | 0.3739179 | 0.543 |
FER | 0.0002584 | 0.0001873 | 0.168 |
IRRI | 1.03056 *** | 0.128758 | 0.000 |
POWER | −0.000172 ** | 0.0000844 | 0.041 |
within | between | overall | |
R-sq | 0.0094 | 0.5439 | 0.2793 |
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Li, S.; You, S.; Song, Z.; Zhang, L.; Liu, Y. Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change on Bean Cultivation in China. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 1591. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/atmos12121591
Li S, You S, Song Z, Zhang L, Liu Y. Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change on Bean Cultivation in China. Atmosphere. 2021; 12(12):1591. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/atmos12121591
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Sidan, Shibing You, Ze Song, Li Zhang, and Yixuan Liu. 2021. "Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change on Bean Cultivation in China" Atmosphere 12, no. 12: 1591. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/atmos12121591