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We examine the current status and future prospects of the electricity sectors and key policy issues in the People's Republic of China (PRC), India, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Fuel mix and energy efficiency are key to providing stable, affordable power, while curtailing future emissions in...
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As a physicist and long time environmental activist, it has become apparent that the decline of Critical Thinking in our society has coincided with popular support of palliative solutions to our energy problems. Few proponents of renewable energy schemes are bothering to use scientific...
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This article examines the future of our petroleum-based economy in light of the voluminous debates over Peak Oil and includes the perspectives of the Western multinational oil companies themselves. The article surveys the Peak Oil discussions and the media campaigns of the major oil companies...
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Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … and political participation raise life satisfaction. People appear fairly satisfied with economic growth and low inflation …
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The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has generally been problematic, principally for lack of...
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associated with lower levels of both life satisfaction and happiness, especially when the commute times are extreme (≥ 1 hour per …
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the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from …
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initial level, life satisfaction has not improved. -- happiness ; life satisfaction ; subjective well-being ; income ; long …
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satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries - a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend …. There is no evidence of an increase in life satisfaction of the magnitude that might have been expected to result from the … accompanying dissolution of the social safety net along with growing income inequality. The burden of worsening life satisfaction …
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We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being...
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