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Developing a Sustainability Assessment Model to Analyze China’s Municipal Solid Waste Management Enhancement Strategy

Li, Hua; Nitivattananon, Vilas; Li, Peng - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1116-1141

This study develops a sustainability assessment model for analysis and decision-making of the impact of China …

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Is It Feasible for China to Optimize Oil Import Source Diversification?

Xu, Jian; Zhang, Jin-Suo; Yao, Qin; Zhang, Wei - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 11, pp. 8329-8341

In 2013, China imported 282 million tons of crude oil with an external dependence of 58.1%, surpassing the USA as the … world’s largest net oil importer. An import source diversification strategy has been adopted by China to ensure oil supply … natural imbalance? This paper analyzes the oil import diversification of China and the USA, as well as the oil production of …

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability Impact Assessment: In Search of Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts Caused by Coal Mining in Inner Mongolia, China

Liu, Lee; Liu, Jie; Zhang, Zhenguo - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 8756-8774

practice a better tool than EIA for assessing sustainability impact. However, China’s political system presents a major … political system, China should adopt the SIA while continuing its fight against corruption. …

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Urban Land Expansion and Spatial Dynamics in Globalizing Shanghai

Li, Han; Wei, Ye Hua Dennis; Huang, Zhiji - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 8856-8875

Urban land expansion in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention. However, more work is needed to apply …

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An Entropy-Perspective Study on the Sustainable Development Potential of Tourism Destination Ecosystem in Dunhuang, China

Feng, Huihui; Chen, Xingpeng; Heck, Peter; Miao, Hong - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 8980-9006

This paper analyzed the characteristic of the tourism destination ecosystem from perspective of entropy in Dunhuang City. Given these circumstances, an evaluation index system that considers the potential of sustainable development was formed based on dissipative structure and entropy change for...

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Assessing Regional Sustainability Using a Model of Coordinated Development Index: A Case Study of Mainland China

Yang, Qing; Ding, Yang; Vries, Bauke de; Han, Qi; Ma, Huimin - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 9282-9304

From a holistic view, this paper addresses a perspective of coordinated development of economy, society, and environment for regional sustainability assessment. Firstly, a comprehensive indicator system for co-evaluating the level of economic, social, and environmental subsystems is presented...

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Sustainability Assessment of Solid Waste Management in China: A Decoupling and Decomposition Analysis

Chen, Xingpeng; Pang, Jiaxing; Zhang, Zilong; Li, Hengji - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 9268-9281

As the largest solid waste (SW) generator in the world, China is facing serious pollution issues induced by increasing … identified the main drivers of SW change in China by adopting Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) model. The results indicate … that China has made a great achievement in SWM which was specifically expressed as the increase of ISW utilized amount and …

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Analysis and Projection of the Relationship between Industrial Structure and Land Use Structure in China

Jin, Qin; Deng, Xiangzheng; Wang, Zhan; Shi, Chenchen; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 12, pp. 9343-9370

industrial structure and land use structure in China. The results show that our model is feasible, and the simulation results are … and land use structure of the thirty-one provinces in China from 2010 to 2020, the proportions of secondary and tertiary … that the industrial structure of China is changing. As for land use, in general, the trend is similar to the industrial …

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A Spatial Optimization Model for Sustainable Land Use at Regional Level in China: A Case Study for Poyang Lake Region

Chen, Wenbo; Carsjens, Gerrit J.; Zhao, Lihong; Li, Haifeng - In: Sustainability 7 (2014) 1, pp. 35-55

Economic growth in China is accompanied by many problems, such as rapid deterioration of the environment and a sharp … decline in the area of arable land. China’s current land-use planning system fails to deal with these problems, especially at … been applied in a case study for the Poyang Lake Region, Jiangxi Province in China. Based on predictions of the demand of …

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Topographical Characteristics of Agricultural Potential Productivity during Cropland Transformation in China

Li, Yuejiao; Yang, Xiaohuan; Cai, Hongyan; Xiao, Linlin; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2014) 1, pp. 96-110

investigated the topographical characteristics of agricultural potential productivity of cropland transformations in China during … agricultural potential productivity as it relates to China’s national food supply. The results showed the production potential of … losses and gains actually impacted the agricultural potential productivity in China. The losses in agricultural potential …

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