The Impact of Urbanization on Agricultural Carbon Emissions Based on the Mesomeric Effect
Based on the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2008 to 2021,this paper empiri-cally studies whether urbanization will affect agricultural carbon emissions through industrial agglomeration by using the intermediate effect test model,and further studies whether the effect of urbanization on agricultural carbon emis-sions will be affected by the degree of industrial agglomeration by using the panel threshold model.The results show that urbanization has a significant positive impact on agricultural carbon emissions,and the higher the level of ur-banization,the more severe agricultural carbon emissions will be;industrial agglomeration plays an essential inter-mediary role in the impact of urbanization on agricultural carbon emissions.Urbanization will promote industrial ag-glomeration and thus increase agricultural carbon emissions;the impact of urbanization on agricultural carbon emis-sions is affected by the single threshold effect of industrial agglomeration.When the degree of industrial agglomera-tion crosses the threshold value,the positive promoting impact of urbanization on agricultural carbon emissions is reduced exponentially.