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Environmental security and its implications for China's foreign relations
Mochizuki, Junko; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2011 - This version: February 2011
. Tensions have been seen in areas such as transboundary air pollution, cross-border water resources management and resources … environmental security. -- Acid Rain ; Climate Change ; Energy ; Environmental Security ; Transboundary Air Pollution ; Water …
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Ecotourism Environmental Protection Measures and Their Effects on Protected Areas in China
Wang, Ling-en; Zhong, Linsheng; Zhang, Yangjian; Zhou, Bin - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 10, pp. 6781-6798
Ecological and environmental protection is the core content of ecotourism development. A quantitative evaluation of the effects of ecotourism environmental protection (hereinafter referred to as EEP) measures on protected areas is conducive to a deeper understanding of the key issues related to...
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Environmental Security and its Implications for China’s Foreign Relations
Zhang, ZhongXiang; Mochizuki, Junko - 2014
. Tensions have been seen in areas such as transboundary air pollution, cross-border water resources management and resources …
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The environmental aspect of “Making People Rich as the Top Priority” in China : a Marxian perspective
Faber, Malte; Petersen, Thomas - 2012
Income inequality in China is severe; measured by the Gini-coefficient it amounted to 0.46 in 2011; wealth distribution is even worse with 0.61. These disparities led to a major shift in emphasis of politics in general and of the Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development by the...
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Is high-speed rail green? : evidence from a quasinatural experiment in China
Nie, Liang; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021
Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high-speed rail for other energy-intensive vehicles from an engineering standpoint, but they have yet to explore the economic effects of high-speed rail and the associated carbon emission reduction benefits. To fill...
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Environmental Kuznets Curves in the People’s Republic of China : Turning Points and Regional Differences
Jiang, Yi; Lin, Tun; Zhuang, Juzhong - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability in China by empirically estimating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) models using provincial-level panel data from 1985 to 2005. The results show that there exists an inverted-U shape relationship...
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Moving to Opportunity for Polluting : Intra-City Evidence from China’s Land Market
Bo, Shiyu; Zhang, Fan; Zhu, Hongjia - 2023
distribution of industrial land. We use the unique setting of the 12th Five-Year Plan on Air Pollution Prevention and Control …
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What is the role of economic growth and openness for China’s environment? An analysis based on Divisia decomposition method from the regional angle
He, Jie - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2006
Observing the weakness in the previous structural analyses on Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) formation, in this paper, author deepens the analysis into the detailed data of production and SO2 emission intensity of the 29 industrial sectors (occupying over 98% of the total industrial...
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China’s War on Pollution : Evidence from the First Five Years
Greenstone, Michael; He, Guojun; Li, Shanjun; Zou, Eric - 2021
pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China … declared a “war on pollution” in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying … pollution, and understand their social, economic, and health consequences …
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Are exporters more environmentally friendly? : a re-appraisal that uses China's micro-data
Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo - 2019
Is a firm's ability to export an important determinant of environmental performance? To answer this question, we construct a unique micro dataset that merged two rich firm-level datasets for China for 2007. When combining this new dataset with well-received empirical specifications, we found...
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