The governance mechanism of the building material industry (BMI) in transformation to green BMI: The perspective of green building

Shi Yin; Baizhou Li; Zeyu Xing

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.317

The governance mechanism of the building material industry (BMI) in transformation to green BMI: The perspective of green building

Sci Total Environ. 2019 Aug 10:677:19-33. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.317. Epub 2019 Apr 25.

Authors

Shi Yin¹, Baizhou Li², Zeyu Xing¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China.
² School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China. Electronic address: acadch@hrbeu.edu.cn.

PMID: 31051380
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.317

Abstract

The transformation from the building material industry (BMI) to green BMI (GBMI) is not only of great significance to the upgrading of traditional BMI, but also has a pivotal role in promoting the sustainable development of cities. This paper studies the governance mechanism of the BMI in transformation to GBMI from the perspective of supply-side and demand-side of green building. First, evolutionary game theory is used to develop two three-party dynamic game models including building materials enterprises (BME), government, building developers (BD) and building consumers (BC). Second, numerical simulation experiment method is used to study the multi-stage governance mechanism based on the model deduction and the theoretical analysis of green transformation. The numerical simulation results show that the infrastructure construction projects on green building is an important governance mechanism for the rapid development of the GBMI, and the green innovation subsidy is a core governance mechanism for the high-quality development. The punishment of pollution and fraud compensation punishment and green innovation subsidy to green BME, tax incentives to green BD and purchase subsidy to green BC are conducive to promoting the change of the concept of green production and consumption. The aforementioned mechanisms and infrastructure construction contribute to promoting the production of green building materials in BME through developing and purchasing green buildings. The infrastructure construction and green innovation subsidy play a pivotal role in the high-quality development of the GBMI. This study not only reveals the theoretical mechanism of the BMI in transformation to GBMI under government-driven, but also provides a practical guidance for formulating high-quality development policies for GBMI. In addition, questionnaire method can be used to effectively solve the problem of bringing the four parties into a unified framework for future research.

Keywords: Evolutionary game; Governance mechanism; Green building material industry (GBMI); Green buildings; Green transformation.