Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China
This book discusses energy use and its environmental footprint in China, as well as issues concerning the transitional green growth of its economy, a subject of great importance in light of China’s size and its impressive record of economic growth. The bo
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y, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China
Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China
Ruizhi Pang Xuejie Bai Knox Lovell •
Editors
Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China
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Editors Ruizhi Pang College of Economic and Social Development Nankai University Tianjin China
Knox Lovell School of Economics University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD Australia
Xuejie Bai College of Economic and Social Development Nankai University Tianjin China
ISBN 978-981-10-7918-4 ISBN 978-981-10-7919-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7919-1
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Contents
Part I
The Expert Overviews 3
1
Editors’ Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xuejie Bai, Knox Lovell and Ruizhi Pang
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Composite Indicators for Sustainability Assessment: Methodological Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P. Zhou and L. P. Zhang
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Pollution Meets Efficiency: Multi-equation Modelling of Generation of Pollution and Related Efficiency Measures . . . . . . . . Finn R. Førsund
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3
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Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables . . . . . . Xun Zhou
Part II
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Studies in Energy and Environment
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Revisiting Reasons for Ten Years of Power Shortages in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Hui-Xian Wang, Hong-Zhou Li, Tao Zou and Yuki Tamai
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Allocation Schemes and Efficiencies of China’s Carbon and Sulfur Emissions .
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