PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Song, Feng
AU  - Hou, Lingling
AU  - Xia, Fang
TI  - Evaluating the External Effect of Wind Power Development on Grassland Quality
AID  - 10.3368/le.99.3.123121-0152R
DP  - 2022 Nov 23
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 123121-0152R
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/11/17/le.99.3.123121-0152R.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2022/11/17/le.99.3.123121-0152R.full
AB  - This study employs a difference-in-differences approach to investigate the effect of county wind power development on grassland quality in China. We find robust evidence that increasing wind power capacity density by 0.02 MW/km2 leads to a 0.5% reduction in the normalized difference vegetation index from its mean value. Excluding economic activities as a transmission channel, heterogeneous effects suggest that higher latitude areas with shorter nighttime hours in the growing season are less affected by the negative externality, supporting microclimate effects as the main mechanism. In addition, scarce wind resources and abundant precipitation may help weaken the negative effect.