We study the cause-effects of status-seeking options to earning environmental income if the landscape rights can be well clarified at community level. Empirical estimates report at least 60-70 percent of the price rise for environmental amenities that means to earn environmental income if people...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the environmental income drives economic growth of a large open country.Design/methodology/approach – The authors detect that the relative environmental income has double effect of “conspicuous consumption” on the international...

“Eco-urbanization” emphasizes the importance of the ecological and environmental aspects of urbanization, which is to approach a balanced and healthy ecosystem through paying attention to the ecological inter-correlation of many factors. This involves balancing the stocks and utilization of...

This article researches fluctuation of exchange rate has impacts on China import unit price of soybeans trading to USA, Argentina, and Brazil. Based on yearly and monthly bilateral soybeans trade data from 1999 to 2010, empirical results show that exchange rate is statistically significant to...

This study focuses on the potential impacts of large-scale land use and land cover changes (LUCC) on surface temperature from a global perspective. As important types of LUCC, urbanization, deforestation, cultivated land reclamation, and grassland degradation have effects on the climate, the...

This paper attempts to propose hybrid methodology of compiling water resource extended input-output (IO) table at county level (According to administrative structure of China, a county is subordinate to its province, and provincial level is parallel to state level of other countries). By...

Based on the computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling method, this research analyzes the relationship between industrial structure and land use structure in China. The results show that our model is feasible, and the simulation results are of a certain stability. Under the scenario...

China has been stressing the needs of promoting regional sustainable development through industrial transformation. In the northwest region of China, which is faced with both urgent socioeconomic development and fragile ecological conditions, with water scarcity being one of the major...