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DOI	10.1016/j.spc.2022.01.015
	Industrial robots and air environment: A moderated mediation model of population density and energy consumption
	Luan, Fushu; Yang, Xinhui; Chen, Yang; Regis, Paulo Jose
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2352-5509
起始页码	870
结束页码	888
卷号	30
英文摘要	The relationship between new digital manufacturing technologies (also known as Industry 4.0) and environmental performance has become a subject of interest for both academia and policymakers. An analysis of the impact of robot usage on air environment mediated by energy consumption and moderated by population density is developed and tested using a longitudinal dataset from 74 countries and regions worldwide during 1993-2019. We find the use of robots exacerbates air pollution and climate warming because enhanced productivity and energy efficiency in light of robot usage offer an incentive to expand production and consumption, and thus increase total energy consumption that finally leads to air deterioration. By decomposing the total effect into the direct and the indirect effect, we find that, though industrial robots weakly contribute to reduction in greenhouse gas emission, the indirect adverse impact dominates the direct benefit. In addition, the nexus between robot usage and air environment is conditional on population density which, at large, mitigates the direct effect while amplifies the indirect effect of the adoption of robots on air environment. This study emphasizes the importance of energy consumption and population density in understanding the mechanisms underlying the relationship between robot usage and air environment, which provides both theoretical and practical implications for the balance of industrial intelligentization and ecological environment.(c) 2022 Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Industrial robots; Air environment; Energy consumption; Population density; Rebound effect
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Studies
WOS类目	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) ; Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
WOS记录号	WOS:000789137500014
来源期刊	SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/280787
作者单位	Nanjing Audit University; China University of Mining & Technology; Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Solent University; University of Southampton
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Luan, Fushu,Yang, Xinhui,Chen, Yang,et al. Industrial robots and air environment: A moderated mediation model of population density and energy consumption[J],2022,30.
APA	Luan, Fushu,Yang, Xinhui,Chen, Yang,&Regis, Paulo Jose.(2022).Industrial robots and air environment: A moderated mediation model of population density and energy consumption.SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION,30.
MLA	Luan, Fushu,et al."Industrial robots and air environment: A moderated mediation model of population density and energy consumption".SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION 30(2022).