scholarly journals Material Consumption and Carbon Emissions Associated with the Infrastructure Construction of 34 Cities in Northeast China

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Heming Wang ◽  
Yao Wang ◽  
Cong Fan ◽  
Xinzhe Wang ◽  
Yao Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Developing Regions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth

Over the past three decades, China has experienced rapid economic growth along with a rapid increase in urbanization and living standards, leading to a boom in infrastructure demand. A large part of China’s newly constructed infrastructure is through urban construction; thus, cities have become a major source of material consumption and carbon emissions. Understanding the relationship between material consumption, carbon emissions, and the economic growth of cities is key to ensuring that the construction of infrastructure satisfies the needs for both economic development and dematerialization. In this study, we first accounted for material consumption and the carbon emissions of infrastructure construction of 34 cities in Northeast China and characterized spatial and temporal changes from 2010–2017. The material use and carbon emissions of infrastructure construction declined by 34.6% and 30.2% during this period. Specifically, material consumption decreased from 305.2 million tonnes to 199.6 million tonnes, and carbon emissions decreased from 77.7 million tonnes to 54.3 million tonnes. Furthermore, we used a decoupling indicator to evaluate the decoupling of material consumption or carbon emissions from GDP in these cities. We found that most cities have achieved the absolute decoupling of material consumption and carbon emissions from GDP over the study period. Finally, we proposed several policy recommendations for promoting the sustainable development of the infrastructure of cities. To ensure that cities realize low-carbon urbanization, policymakers need to promote modular buildings and low-emission construction materials. This paper also serves as a practical reference for the improvement of relevant materials and carbon emissions management strategies for other developing regions.

scholarly journals Comprehensive analysis of carbon emissions, economic growth, and employment from the perspective of industrial restructuring: a case study of China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shukuan Bai ◽  
Boya Zhang ◽  
Yadong Ning ◽  
Ying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Carbon Emissions Reduction ◽  
High Emission ◽  
Significant Measure

AbstractIndustrial restructuring is a significant measure for low-carbon transition. In principle, carbon emissions can be effectively reduced by limiting the output of high-emission sectors; however, the socio-economic effects of the sectors should also be considered. Moreover, owing to the limitations of the method or data, the interactions between households and production sectors have been neglected in the study of industrial restructuring, resulting in an incomplete and potentially biased understanding of the role of households. To fill this gap, we applied a semi-closed input–output model to identify key sectors by economic and emission linkages and measure the employment impacts (direct, indirect, and induced) of reduced carbon emissions. The empirical results for China in 2010–2018 showed that relatively small changes in key emission sectors would significantly affect the economic growth, and reduced carbon emissions reduction would generally lead to high job losses. Promoting labor-intensive sectors, particularly the service sector, is conducive to achieving a “multi-win” situation for economic development, carbon emission reductions, and stable employment. Furthermore, our results highlight the significance of households: expanding consumption and increasing household income can bring multiple benefits, such as economic growth, job creation, and low carbon emissions. These findings can provide useful information for identifying the optimized path of restructuring and helping achieve the sustainable development of the environment, economy, and society.

Decoupling Analysis of Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions in Henan Province

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 2545-2548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shun Lei Peng ◽  
Hui Xie ◽  
Gan Qing Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Henan Province ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Energy Consuming ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions is a hot issue of the sustainable development. We selected data of decoupling indicators from 1985 to 2010 of Henan Province to analysis the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions. The results showed that the relationship between economic growth and carbon emission was weak decoupling for a long time, which indicated that economic rapid growth depended on increasing carbon emissions in Henan Province. This study suggested that Henan province should reduce the proportion of high energy-consuming industries, such as steel making, cement production, mining, etc, coordinate the relationship of economic growth and carbon emissions, and advocate low-carbon economy.

Research on Countermeasures Used in Low-Carbon Economy to Promote the Sustainable Development in Fujian Province of China

2011 ◽  
Vol 347-353 ◽  
pp. 2811-2814
Author(s):  
Nan Zhu ◽  
Bao Ming Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Conservation Of Energy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Develop Economy ◽  
Carbon Economy

Low-carbon economy is a new path which our country is taking to develop economy. As one of the provinces in the southeast coast of China, Fujian develop a low-carbon economy directly relating to the transformation of its economic growth, conservation of energy, improvement of productivity, innovation of technology and so on. We can say that the development of low-carbon economy directly affects the sustainable development of economy and society in Fujian province of China. Therefore, firstly, we believe that government and enterprise should optimize the allocation of resource and improve the utilization of resource. Secondly, the tax policies are supposed to adjust to stimulate the development of environmental protection industry. Thirdly, government should accelerate the construction of infrastructures. Fourthly, the legal system needs to be built and perfected so as to promote the development of low-carbon economy. At last, the investment of techniques is supposed to increase to a certain degree, and the ability of innovation and management of enterprises should be promoted to adapt the development of low-carbon economy of Fujian province.

scholarly journals Constructing an Environmental Friendly Low-Carbon-Emission Intelligent Transportation System Based on Big Data and Machine Learning Methods

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8118
Author(s):  
Tu Peng ◽  
Xu Yang ◽  
Zi Xu ◽  
Yu Liang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Exhaust Emissions ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Vehicle Exhaust ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Carbon Emission

The sustainable development of mankind is a matter of concern to the whole world. Environmental pollution and haze diffusion have greatly affected the sustainable development of mankind. According to previous research, vehicle exhaust emissions are an important source of environmental pollution and haze diffusion. The sharp increase in the number of cars has also made the supply of energy increasingly tight. In this paper, we have explored the use of intelligent navigation technology based on data analysis to reduce the overall carbon emissions of vehicles on road networks. We have implemented a traffic flow prediction method using a genetic algorithm and particle-swarm-optimization-enhanced support vector regression, constructed a model for predicting vehicle exhaust emissions based on predicted road conditions and vehicle fuel consumption, and built our low-carbon-emission-oriented navigation algorithm based on a spatially optimized dynamic path planning algorithm. The results show that our method could help to significantly reduce the overall carbon emissions of vehicles on the road network, which means that our method could contribute to the construction of low-carbon-emission intelligent transportation systems and smart cities.

The Impact of Collaborative Consumption on Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Erhan İşcan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Collaborative Consumption ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Paradigm ◽  
The Impact

Excessive use of goods and services and industrialization progress of 20th century depleted resources and emerged the sustainable development as the main target of the policymakers, but past experiences and consequences of rapid economic growth of 20th century showed that there must be a change in the policies. Alleviating of poverty with inequalities and hunger in a degraded environment is needing sustainable cities and communities that have decent work for economic growth. In this context, perhaps, there must be a change in the economic paradigm beyond a policy change. Collaborative consumption is this new economic paradigm that has changed the understanding of the economic system. This new economic paradigm is depending on the sharing of idle resources with or without a fee that changed the importance of asset ownership. The main aim of this chapter is to present the impact of collaborative consumption on the 10 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN.

The Study on Impact Degree between Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth in the Construction Industry of Five Northwestern Provinces

2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 2818-2822
Author(s):  
Su Xian Zhang ◽  
Xian Wei Tang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Western Development ◽  
High Energy Consumption ◽  
Great Stress

With the highly praised development of low-carbon and implementation of western development strategy, the various industries of northwest faced great stress with how to weigh the economic growth and reduce carbon emissions. In this study, based on the data about energy consumption and GDP in the construction industry of five northwestern provinces, and estimates the carbon emissions of construction indirectly. Then combined withDecoupling Theoryanalysis the interacted impact among carbon emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in the construction industry of five northwestern provinces .The results shows that the development of construction industry in provinces is still based on high energy consumption and high carbon emissions, but each impact degree of them are different. Finally, put some suggest improvements to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions in the construction industry path of five northwestern provinces.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Effect of Industrial Transformation of Resource-Based Cities in Northeast China

Economies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Gaolan Hou ◽  
Zhou Zou ◽  
Tianran Zhang ◽  
Yue Meng
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rational Development ◽  
Regional Coordination ◽  
The Impact

Based on the development of the industrial structure of prefecture-level resource-based cities in Northeast China, this paper selects three indicators of industrial structure—diversification, rationalization and upgrading—conducting empirical analysis on the transformation of the industrial structure of these resource-based cities. The effects of the industrial transformation of resource-based cities of the same kind are analysed and the development of industrial structure in different provinces is compared. It indicates that the transformation process and adjustment effect of the industrial structures in resource-based cities of Northeast China were different and were not very satisfactory on the whole and the secondary industry was still the leading industry in most cities. In addition, the article analyses the impact of the industrial transformation on the economic growth of resource-based cities in Northeast China. It can be concluded that the rationalization and upgrading of industrial structure generally promoted the cities’ economic growth. The promotion of industrial structure rationalization was greater than that of upgrading. In order to promote the sustainable development of resource-based cities’ economy in Northeast China and solve problems in the process of the cities’ development, two suggestions are proposed. One is to pay attention to the rational development of the industrial structure, so it is necessary to strengthen the overall planning of resource-based cities in the Northeast region, promote regional coordination and rationally arrange and adjust the industrial structure from the overall scope of the region. Another is to continue to promote the process of industrial structure upgrading by introducing high-tech industries through preferential policies and to develop relevant industries based on the advantages of the cities, instead of just extending the original industry.

An Empirical Study on China's Energy Consumption, Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 377-380
Author(s):  
Meng Hui Liu ◽  
Kun Kun Xue
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Var Model ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Carbon Economy

With the development of low-carbon economy, it is necessary to explore the relationship between energy consumption, carbon emissions and the economic growth correctly. In this paper, the VAR model was proposed with analyzing the relationship between the three factories through pulse response graph. Through the empirical investigation, the result shows: increasing energy consumption can promote economic growth, while the increasing consumption will also raise emissions of carbon. However, the emissions of carbon have negative effect on economic growth. Therefore, we must correctly handle the relationship between the three factories. Thus, it offers the best way to develop the economic in this paper is to develop the low carbon economy.

A Case Study of Carbon Footprint on Liquor Packaging

2012 ◽  
Vol 262 ◽  
pp. 577-580
Author(s):  
Ya Bo Fu ◽  
Wen Cai Xu ◽  
Yan Ru Jiang ◽  
Ge Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Glass Bottle ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Packaging ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

The increasing concern on low carbon and environment protection has aroused a broader awareness of the sustainable development issues to be given to the environmental impacts of packaging products through the whole life cycle. The research of carbon footprint takes the high lights among these studies. The calculation of carbon emissions on commodities has shown many advantages on estimation of global greenhouse gas emissions. In this work, glass bottle liquor packaging was selected as the researching object, its equivalent carbon emissions were investigated by hybrid life cycle method. Through the carbon emissions research of the processes during the whole life cycle including raw materials’ production, packaging process, transportation, consumption and recycling, the carbon footprint on liquor packaging was calculated. The results indicated that the transportation and production of glass bottle contribute the most parts of total carbon emissions, which provides a case support for energy conservation and the development of green packaging.

scholarly journals Spatial and Temporal Variations of Embodied Carbon Emissions in China’s Infrastructure

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Bai ◽  
Jiansheng Qu ◽  
Tek Maraseni ◽  
Jinjia Wu ◽  
Li Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Regional Inequality ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variations ◽  
Annual Growth Rate ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Embodied Carbon ◽  
Embodied Carbon Emissions ◽  
Urbanization In China

The swift evolution of urbanization in China has led to a rapid increase in the demand for infrastructure. Infrastructure consumes significant amounts of construction materials. The production, packaging, transportation and use of these materials require energy and, therefore, are a source of carbon emissions. In order to make the construction of infrastructure satisfy people’s life demands and economic development, and at the same time conform to low carbon ideas, it is necessary to understand the spatial and temporal variations of embodied carbon emissions and its regional disparity. This study classifies and sorts the calculation parameters of infrastructure material stock and embodied carbon emissions. It estimates the trends and magnitude of 31 provinces over a period of 20 years (1997–2016) and analyzes the spatial-temporal characteristics. Our results indicate that: (1) The overall infrastructure embodied carbon emissions amount to 3204 billion tons; (2) the embodied carbon emissions from buildings are far greater than that of transportation infrastructure, however, the annual growth rate is contrary to this; (3) the spatial and temporal variations show regional inequality, with the eastern coastal area being higher than the central and western inland areas and the economically developed areas being higher than the less developed areas.

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