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Energy conservation has been taken as basic state policy in China for more than twenty years and China achieves great success of annual energy saving. In 2006 China Central Government firstly set up a binding target of reducing GDP energy intensity in its 11th Five-Year-Plan. With two decades of continuous efforts, for the recent 6 years from 2004, China has created an administrative oriented policy...
Enhancing environmental management is an important way to realize sustainable development of enterprises, and cleaner production is an effective method of environmental management. However, currently, lacking of effective and rational incentive mechanism makes the oil and gas field enterprises are lack of motivation to launch the cleaner production. According to the production reality of oil and gas...
The ecological protection of the farmlands in China is being confronted with a lot of problems such as soil and water erosion, land degradation at present. Therefore farmland eco-compensation is becoming a question of common interest. Based on the analyses of the major problems and their origins in the farmland protection in China, the paper discusses the concerned policies including relative rules...
Enterprises are the direct creators of social wealth, they are also the main users of resources and main manufacturers of environmental pollution. Now the contradiction between economic development and environmental resources is prominent day by day, green management has become the inevitable choice for the enterprises, even the society, to develop sustainably. Some enterprises have begun to strengthen...
As interests in the impacts of business activities on environment have been growing, environmental policy is now shifting from the “end of pipe” stage to the next stage, “cleaner production”, which factor in the life cycles, and social efficiency. Since the early 90's, the concept of cleaner production has been recognized and promoted. An increasing trend in environmental departments of state and...
The Inherent Defect Insurance is one kind of commercial insurance and one of the important economic methods to provide protection for the final buyers of the buildings in some developed countries worldwide. The experience of the IDI in other counties indicates that the IDI can reduce the inherent defects of the building and protect the clients free of lost from the inherent defects and damages. According...
With the soaring of energy prices and environmental pollution brought by fossil-fuel consumption, bio-energy as a clean and sustainable energy, captures attentions of both governments and researchers. Although lots of literature discusses the effects of bio-energy policies, little studies the effects of government policy on economic growth. In this paper, we build an endogenous growth model to analyze...
China has been actively developing and introducing the Household or Livestock Farms Biogas Practical Energy Technologies, which not only improves the energy efficiency and renewable energy utilization, but also reduces the household energy consumption. Firstly, this paper introduces the present situation of the development of Chinese Household or Livestock Farms Biogas Practical Energy Technologies...
The article builds the coordinating degree evaluation index system of energy-economy-environment (3E) composed of three modules, five factors and 34 indexes based on research on energy, economic and environmental correlation in the process of economic development, and uses expert evaluation method to determine the weight of each index; finally, we use AHP-GRAM to evaluate and analyze the 3E system...
At the end of 2008, the Central Government of the PRC implemented four policies in the forestry industry against the financial crisis. This paper, based on the analysis of the impact made by the financial crisis on China's enterprises of forest product processing and export, analyzes the effects of those policies. It suggests that the U.S sub-prime lending crisis has brought about an awkward situation...
With the emergence of energy crisis, new clean energy including solar, wind, nuclear and so on attract more and more attention. This paper starts at the developing situation of PV industry in China, analyzes problems in the development of PV industry in Jiangxi Province, and services to seize the opportunity in promotion of the global new energy and photovoltaic industry, actively occupy the key place...
With many current scientific studies pointing to global warming and climate changes caused by greenhouse gases, there is an ever increasing societal push for renewable environmentally friendly green technologies to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from fossil fuel consumption. Government policy plays a key role in the development and wide-scale implementation of green technology. Many...
For a long time, the rationalization distribution of government technology introduction fund has been important issues of the regional coordination development and the region core competitive ability enhances. Based on endogens economic theory, the paper has established a function of technology introduction and optimization model of supporting fund for technology introduction. It is concluded that...
Study of complex socioeconomic systems, such as policy response system, requires a sophisticated approach for modeling and simulation. Multi-agent system can be an effective tool to reason individual and group behaviors. The paper analyzes the socioeconomic environmental policy system with the compensation policy strategy. Using the Swarm-an agent based platform, a model is built to simulate the group...
Given the role of agriculture sector in an economy and its vulnerability in terms of disasters, direct monetary transfers are paid from tax-payers to agriculture producers in many countries. Government policies are expected not only to provide higher and more stable income to producers but also to create incentives to attract rural households to continue farming. Nevertheless, these policies have...
Recent years have witnessed China's fundamental adjustment of its subsidizing policies on grain supplies to ensure two goals, namely, security of grain supplies and income rise of farmers, due to its emphasis on the ldquoThree Rural Issuesrdquo concerning agriculture, farmers and the countryside, and the global crisis of grain shortage. However, there have long existed contradictions between the two...
Sustainable development is the theme of the future. This paper first analyzes the impact of logistics on the environment in the context of sustainable development, then points out that green logistics is the inevitable choice for sustainable development. Finally, some countermeasures for the development of green logistics are proposed from three angles: the government should make law and regulations,...
Starting from the characteristic analysis of cleaner technology (CT) in this paper, CT is divided into three types as none-profit, critical-profit and high-profit through the horizontal and vertical analysis from the microeconomic view between CT and non-cleaner technology (NCT) . It is concluded that government intervention policies such as financial subsidy, environmental tax can push CT to high-profit...
As of April 2006, Korea had successfully invited twelve global IT R&D centers to help implement the u-IT839 strategy of Ministry of Information and Communication, but there have also been some doubts about their research and collaboration performance in Korea. Although it is too early to evaluate the outcomes of inviting global IT R&D centers only after two years or less of their working,...
Several countries now have national programs to support cluster-based innovation in their key industries. They all realize that geographical clusters are significant drivers of innovations and competitiveness in todaypsilas fast-moving global economy. Cluster are formally planned and created with concentration of targeted industry and support infrastructure such as university researchers, supporting...
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