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A risk assessment for water shortage is constructed to analyze the carrying capacity of water resources in Sheshui River watershed, China. It is based on the information of present economic development. There are several serious environmental problems which might cripple the development potential in Sheshui River watershed. Risk assessment results are used to analyze the carrying capacity of water...
The paper focuses on the pressure of China's consumption on resources and environment with the economic development. The paper shows that an increase in consumer demand places more pressure on the environment, there are distinct differences of economic and social circumstances from regions to regions; and when looking at the social formation, there is typical dual economic and social structure in...
This study collecting the monitoring data for surface water quality and economic development data of Tianjin, and analyzed the water quality according to national water environmental quality standards between 1998 and 2008, it is found that Hai River and other main rivers were polluted badly except Yuqiao Reservior which is only drinking source water body. In the past two decade, economy of Tianjin...
As the world's second largest FDI inflow country, and the world's largest developing country, China faced with the increasingly serious environmental problems. The FDI inflow is a two-edge sword, along with the great effect in host country's economic development, they also bring in the pollution industries which badly influence the environment. In this way, the studies on the coordination between...
Mineral resource is the material basis in the progress of human society and economic development, as well as the essential element in the sustainable development. The non-renewability and the sustainability of the development of mineral recourse require us to minimize energy consumption and achieve the economic maximization, which allows the resource-based circular economy as the strategic choice...
With the economic development, the proportion of service industry is going up constantly, which has become a widely accepted rule. Recently, although the economy in our country has almost been kept the leading rising speed around the globe, the service industry has not enjoyed the rising speed as expected and its status in National Economy has not been remarkably enhanced. Apart from the reasons from...
In the process of reform and opening up toward transformation of economic system, adaptation to informationization and economic globalization, low-tech manufacturing industry (LTMI) is an important driving force of China's economic development. However, most researches in China now focus on high-tech industry (HTI) and therefore relevant research findings on low-tech industry (LTI) are deficient....
This paper analyzed the characteristics and major human driving forces of cultivated land change in Fuzhou, China, using remote sensing (RS) images, geographic information system (GIS) spatial analysis, and socio-economic data. Based on the RS images and GIS spatial analysis, a change matrix was constructed to detect land-use change from 1989 to 2005. The result indicated that paddy fields and dry...
Planning of energy systems is confronted with dual pressures from economic development and environmental protection, and associated with various uncertainties. In this paper, an inexact energy system optimization model (IESOM) was developed, through integrating interval-parameter and mixed integer programming (IMILP) within an energy systems management framework. IESOM would minimize the total cost...
The economic developments of China and India, two largest developing countries in the world, have been very impressive recently, but FDI policies and real FDI inflows in two countries are different. This article compares the main factors that cause the great differences in using FDI between China and India by empirical methods. The empirical results indicate that the larger domestic market size and...
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