Environmental regulations can oen lead to leakage due to the increased cost. In this paper, we investigate the carbon leakage induced by the air pollution control policy that focuses on PM2.5 mitigation in China – Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Air Pollution. We employ a one-to-one...

This study investigated the production of natural nitrogen doped carbon from expired fresh milk for use in a supercapacitor electrode. The material was prepared by hydrothermal carbonization followed by sequential KOH-H3PO4 activation. Carbon modified with KOH at a ratio of 1:1 had the largest...

The boost up of soil heavy metal pollution has severely affected the sustainable development of agriculture in China. It is essential to control and resolve the dilemma of deteriorating soil health due to pollution of heavy metals. The contribution of sources and relative sources of heavy metals...

The contribution of sources and relative sources of heavy metals from sampling of cultivated land around typical mining area was analyzed by spatial analysis (SA), input flux analysis (IFA), principal component analysis (PCA), positive matrix factorization (PMF), and isotope tracer. The results...

Having constructed a unique dataset of consumption-based CO2 emissions for 17 different types of fossil fuels, 46 sectors and 7 industrial processes at the city level for 285 Chinese prefectures and municipalities, we assess the causal impact of China’s Low-carbon City Pilot (LCCP) on...

Achieving efficiency in coordinated action in rapidly changing environments has challenged both researchers and practitioners. Emergency events require both rapid response and effective coordination among participating organizations. We created a simulated operations environment using...

One way to assess whether governments (at any level) learn from their disaster experience is to examine two similar events at different points in time. We investigate and compare the 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill disaster with the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform and oil spill disaster to...

Local governments face threats from natural and man-made disasters, but tightening budgets create difficulty in developing the resource and information capacity to meet these challenges. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the federal government provided a variety of grants for equipment and...

This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it raises the saving rate and thereby increases the rate of...