Uncovering hidden cross-regional environmental risks: Network evidence from off-site penalties and implications for pollution transfer in China
Feng Hu; Huijie Yang; Shuang Zhao; Liping Qiu; Shaobin Wei; Jiahan Hu; Yuehua Chen; Hao Hu · 2026 · iScience
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Abstract
The pressures of economic development and environmental governance are growing increasingly intense. This study uses 2014-2023 off-site environmental penalty data of Chinese listed firms to construct weighted intercity networks of cross-regional environmental violation linkages and compares the spatial patterns between firms in polluting industries and those in other industries via social network analysis, spatial statistics, and geographical detector methods. The results show that cross-regional environmental violation linkages have become increasingly dense, with firms in other industries ac
Abstract by Feng Hu; Huijie Yang; Shuang Zhao; Liping Qiu; Shaobin Wei; Jiahan Hu; Yuehua Chen; Hao Hu, iScience (2026) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2026.116512