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Putting a price on carbon is considered a crucial step for China’s endeavor of harnessing the market forces to reduce … its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China’s grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and … market power of dominated players, use of offsets, and enforcement and compliance. This article explains why China turns to …
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This paper examines the impacts of the proposed carbon-based border tax adjustments (BTAs) on China’s trade, based on a … up to the year 2030. Distinct from previous single China country models, our model disaggregates foreign accounts of … China into four regions, including USA and the EU, to enable to examine the effects of re-routing trade flows. The results …
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Low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) in China is densely populated and economically developed, which is exposed to …, we need to better understand LECZ. As the first step, in this paper we define the extent of the LECZ in China, and … combine elevation models and population data sets. Our findings show that, overall, this zone covers 2.0 % of China’s land …
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rise in the intensity and frequency of natural hazards, and in exposure. China is prone to multiple hazards and has … hazards and map its temporal–spatial distribution in China, we carefully selected variables from an extensive compilation of … China, with a higher distribution in eastern China compared with that in western China, and a declining trend in spatial …
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, which is situated in Guangdong province of China’s southeastern monsoon zone and notable for its particularly heavy seepage …
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Province, China, using support vector machine (SVM). Seven conditioning factors of elevation, slope, aspect, distance to roads …
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<Para ID="Par1">Joint probability behavior of droughts is important for China due to the fact that China is the …-impacted regions; (2) droughts in the northwest China are characterized by longer drought duration and larger drought severity, and the … occurrence of the droughts in the northwest China is subject to be higher due to longer waiting time between drought events …
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Using survey data from China, this paper tests the association between individual self-reported happiness and income … study have a Gini coefficient larger than 0.405. The inverted U-shaped association exists in both urban and rural China …
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irrigation scientists. However, the dissemination of WSI in China has been slow and little is understood with respect to why … qualitative data from 37 semi-structured and 56 unstructured interviews across 13 villages in northwest China, this paper examines …
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For centuries, China’s farmers practiced agriculture in ways that sustained a high level of food production without … attempts to answer that question in the context of reform era China (post-1978). Using a critical discourse analysis of nongmin … in China today, specifically in relation to state policy on rural and agricultural development. The central argument is …
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