In spite of the decreasing share of nuclear power all over the world, China resumed the approval of large-scale construction of nuclear power plants in 2012. However, influenced by the worldwide spreading anti-nuclear attitudes, people who live near nuclear power plants showed increasing...

Some research on climate change has been the basis of climate change denialism (hereafter, CCD is used to refer to denial, denialism, and deniers). There is formative knowledge about the role of political propaganda in climate policies and resulting outcomes. To contribute to the understanding...

The paper proposes a poverty reduction index demonstrating that the selection of growth policies should be to maximize the sum of income and inequality effects. The empirical results indicate that economic growth in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between 1985 and 2001 was effective in...

This article presents a critical assessment of research over the last 40 years that may be brought under the umbrella of “energy efficiency,” spanning different aggregations and domains – from individual producing and consuming agents to economy-wide effects, the role of innovation, and...

This paper uses a macroeconomic approach to develop a long-run electricity demand model to analyze the main factors affecting electricity demand in the Peopleís Republic of China (PRC). As expected, the relationship among variables is more stable and significant after the PRCís economic...

Global shocks potentially distort economy's achieved equilibria. Considering the 2020 global crude oil price shock and the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic, this study proposes an energy and environment integrated general equilibrium model to analyze the economic, energy, and environmental...

Expanding distributed energy supply can not only make up for the energy shortage, but also help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Existing studies often ignore the differences in the spatial distribution of distributed energy. To fill this gap, this article uses the geographically weighted...