**1. Introduction**

Implementing the 'new development concept' is the key to the high-quality development of China's economy [1]. With the increasing downward pressure on China's economy and the gradual emergence of ecological adverse effects, the extensive economic growth mode is challenging to meet the requirements of China's high-quality economic transformation, and green governance has become a meaningful way to solve the problem of green development [2]. Green governance is a community of green governance based on the principles of mutual trust and mutual reliance and sharing, guided by the concept of green development, to cooperate and govern public affairs. In order to achieve a harmonious and sustainable governance process of economy, politics, society, culture, and ecology, the grassroots governmen<sup>t</sup> is the core subject of green governance [3–6]. However, green governance has many characteristics, such as thorny subjects and broad fields, which require the effective promotion of governmen<sup>t</sup> subjects [7]. Based on such a realistic background, the research of green governance based on the level of local governmen<sup>t</sup> will help implement top-level design into the practical level and provide reference ideas for standardizing local governmen<sup>t</sup> behavior and realizing scientific and rational decision-making.

The green governance work of local governmen<sup>t</sup> has gradually deepened from a point to an area. At the beginning of the 13th five-year plan, the development concept of innovation, coordination, green, open, and sharing laid the thinking and focus of China's future development. It solved the problems of regional ecosystem degradation and low-quality economic development to a grea<sup>t</sup> extent. Green governance has become a vital integration

**Citation:** Liu, H.; Yao, P.; Wang, X.; Huang, J.; Yu, L. Research on the Peer Behavior of Local Government Green Governance Based on SECI Expansion Model. *Land* **2021**, *10*, 472. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10050472

Academic Editors: Maciej J. Nowak, Giancarlo Cotella and Przemysław Sleszy ´ ´ nski

Received: 19 March 2021 Accepted: 28 April 2021 Published: 1 May 2021

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practice of the new development concept [8]. The demonstration experience of ecological and green integration development in the Yangtze River Delta shows that green governance is the critical measure for building a modern economic system, optimizing the economic structure and transforming the development mode and power. The realization of efficient green governance will win significant opportunities for the region to seize future development opportunities [9]. In the middle and late period of the 13th five-year plan, successful attempts in some areas have made green governance a tool to promote backward area economic development to 'overtake' and improve quality and efficiency. Local governments show prominent characteristics of 'mutual competition' and 'mutual observation', which leads to the formation of green governance peer behavior [10]. Nevertheless, there is an economic question implied here: Why do local governments have assertive peer behavior in green governance? There are two main reasons: first, under the premise of the central government's strong emphasis on the 'new development concept', local governments have less room for decision-making, so peer behavior is more pronounced. Secondly, under the role of 'scale competition', the local government's individual behavior is more affected by group behavior. The successful cases of green governance significantly 'intervene' in the decision-making of local governmen<sup>t</sup> behavior. Therefore, the local government's peer behavior in green governance is stronger than the convergence of previous decision-making, and its motivation and evolution logic are more worthy of attention and discussion. In particular, green governance cannot be achieved overnight. Blind conglomeration and perceptual decision-making may cause more economic losses to local governments, which is incomparable with the previous governmen<sup>t</sup> managemen<sup>t</sup> peer behavior. In view of this, this paper intends to build a systematic analysis framework, use knowledge managemen<sup>t</sup> theory to analyze the logic of local governmen<sup>t</sup> green governance, and put forward the peer effect and different peer types. Finally, based on the evolutionary game model, this paper clarifies the impact of knowledge managemen<sup>t</sup> on the green governance peer behavior of the local government, promotes the local government's reasonable peer behavior, and enhances the peer effect.
