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This paper addresses the role of public policy in influencing technological innovation and diffusion in the energy-intensive process industries (e.g., pulp and paper, iron and steel etc.). We highlight in particular technologies that either reduce the industry's energy use or imply lower process emissions of carbon dioxide. This research scope is motivated due both to its societal relevance and the...
A free trade zone (FTZ) or a export processing zone (EPZ) is an area where some traditional trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in order to attract more business and foreign investments. In this paper, eco industry theory is applied to a FTZ named Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone (WFTZ) in a unique city Shanghai to look for its sustainable development...
China is undergoing a rapid industrialization and has been considered as one of the biggest consumers of nature resources. The study of ecosystem development in China is important and has drawn large attention of Chinese government. For example, China's Agenda 21 highlighted the principles and sets the directions for eco-industrial development. Industrial symbiosis, which has emerged as a self-organizing...
The low carbon development assessment can provide valid information to support decision making in regional sustainable development. With the support of forest carbon sinks information simulated from remote sensing data, the low carbon development assessment index framework of Fujian Province, China was constructed. After indices weighting by the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP), the low carbon...
With the convened of Copenhagen conference, the national is vigorously respond to the low-carbon economic development. In such a situation, Tianjin is also actively engaged in. As an important aspect of the development of Tianjin, energy, also need to make reforms. As the foundation of the national economy, Energy is playing a very important role in ensuring the sustained, rapid and healthy development...
With the rapid development of economy in China, the issue is increasingly serious involving the degradation of environment, the shortage of resources and the absence of environmental protection. To keep sustainable development of economy, this paper illustrates the theory and significance of tax policy involving in environmental protection from aspect of technology innovation. Furthermore, it puts...
The energy-economy-environment (3E) system is a complicated system in the world. Although there have been plenty of researches on the system, few of them concerns the problem of coordination degree evaluation. How to evaluate the status or operating efficiency is still under study in many countries. In this paper, the definition of the coordination development of the 3E system is given and a coordination...
The paper explores and analyzes the game expression problem of Chinese future product design under the background of the low-carbon economic development in current times of globalization. In low-carbon economy era, as the primary focus of consumers gradually shifts from material to spiritual, the concept of product design will shift from function to game. The paper explains the cultural functions...
Central China's past economic development mode with "High Input, High Consumption, High Emission" has greatly impeded the process of it's rising. To break through the bottleneck of resources shortage and the environmental degradation, and rise early, it is necessary for Central China to base on "A Resource-Saving and Environment-Friendly Society" and the principle of sustainable...
This paper has discussed the arduousness in terms of energy saving and emission reduction(ESER) faced with China from the perspective of industrial structure, energy structure, energy efficiency and international comparison based on fulfillment of the targets established for the first two years of the eleventh five-year. In the paper, many suggestions and views are proposed, in particular, the target...
The purpose of this document is to communicate an economic vision for Urban Economics. Solving the environmental problems associated with urbanization requires lateral thinking, or rather vertical thinking. Problems abound when considering the environmental challenges of an increasingly urban society. Among these are a decreasing vegetation cover of the soil, water absorption capacity, shade and temperature...
The analysis of environmental carrying capacity (ECC) is one of the most important methods to regional environmental impact assessment (REIA). The purpose of this paper is to establish a simple and practical method to assess ECC of economic development area in China. A simple assessment indicator system (AIS) which mainly contained 16 important indicators was constructed and accordingly the comprehensive...
Considering making a region to achieve the sustainable utilization of natural resources, the sustainable improvement of ecological environment, and the sustainable development of economy, this paper builds a multi-objective optimization model of industrial scale structure based on the bearing capacity of regional natural resources and environment. And this model was used to optimize the industrial...
From the international comparisons of economic growth and energy consumption, China's energy consumption per unit production is one of the world's highest, and the Chinese unit environmental cost of GDP is in the world forefront calculating energy consumption companied with environmental protection. Because of the 70% energy consumption of our country coming from coal, environmental regulation of...
Industrial symbiosis network (ISN) is an efficient organizational form for improving resource recycling and efficiency in industrial cluster area. Because of the variety of industrial cluster area formation model, the industrial symbiosis network is different with each other. Based on the circular economy theory, combing with international tendency of cluster area, the paper puts forward the relying-on-oriented...
The importance for studying the influences to the environment by tourism activities is noted by more and more people. The researching method changes from the original qualitative description to quantitative description. Taken Shanghai ChongMing Island as an example, the tourism environmental carrying capacity of this island is studied by combining with the its unique island characteristics. The factors...
The global economy is facing economic crisis at present. And all the industries are face to serious problem relative to their fates. In addition, the bamboo industry in China is not relating to ecological environment construction for low utilization rate of raw materials, high energy consumption and low products extra value. therefore, the development model and countermeasure is urgent to be studied...
Now environment protection and resources conservation is rising on a global scale and carried out a green wave protection. The green rampart that formed on foreign trade was exerted a tremendous influences for product export in China. Therefore, the development countermeasure is urgent to be studied in order to help the industries in China placidly pass through the crisis. Based on survey reports...
With the quick development of industrialization and urbanization of China, the problems of energy consumption and environment pollution are attached importance by more and more people. As a big population and economic province of China, circular economy of Henan province is of important significance for the sustainable development of national economy. Under the background of sustainable development...
The Yangtze River Delta Area, renowned for its vigorous economic development, has actually had a strong demonstration effect on other surrounding regions or areas. On the basis of analysis of these three principal factors in terms of economy, society, and environment, this paper attempts to set up a synthetic index system measuring the sustainable development capacity of the 16 central cities located...
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