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With China's rapid economic development and the world's total primary Energy declining, Energy bottleneck effect on China's economy has become increasing evident. China's economic growth pattern is in the transitional period from extensiveness to intensiveness, the improvement of the energy structure also becomes more urgent. In this paper, the authors put forward some measures to adjust China's energy...
U.S. House of Representatives issued "U.S. Clean Energy Security Act" at the end of June 2009, which authorized the U.S. government to impose carbon tariffs on the imports of some countries, including China, which does not limit carbon emission. Since the majority of China's exports are high energy consumption products, it would be very detrimental to China's economic development if developed...
Since the 1980s, Chinese water environment has got worse and worse, and water pollution extended from local pollution to total watershed pollution. From the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the government recognized the seriousness of water pollution, and put the core of the prevention and cure of water pollution in Three Rivers and Three Lakes, e.i. Huaihe River, Haihe River, Liaohe River, Taihu Lake, Chaohu...
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...
The impact of economic growth on environment has been one of hot topics of scholars at home and abroad. The hypothesis of environmental Kuznets curve, and a large number of related verification studies are all based on time-series data, by which the relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution in a country or a region can be explained from time scale, however, the differences of...
Over last two decades the risk and reality of environmental degradation have become more apparent with increasing economic development and population growth. Solving the current environmental problems, while addressing issues related to electricity generation and solid wastes problems, requires long-term potential actions for sustainable development. In this regard, renewable energy resources are...
Planning for economic development and environment protection in Erhai Lake basin to balance economic and ecological benefits is urgent. Inexact multi-objective programming (IMOP) could help us to optimize the planning. The paper presents particular model for solving the problem. With the necessary data collected, the research team will go on to use LINGO software and the formulated models in this...
The key of Overall Reform Pilot Experiment of Building Resources-conserved and Environment-friendly Society in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Mega-polis lies in eco-transition of industries based on recycling economy. Its long-term objective is to work out various deep-rooted institutional and mechanism obstacles as increasing contradictions between economic & social development and resources &...
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...
The confluence of recent initiatives in ocean observation, offshore energy and port and harbor security, has reenergized the many stakeholders in marine technology industry in Southern New England to ensure they are well positioned to capitalize on the opportunities. As traditional sources of research and development funding have decreased there has been a resultant shift which is forcing a new paradigm...
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