Systematic research into social inequalities in the distribution of environmental hazards, though well-established in American sociology, has largely not been conducted using quantitative data from developing countries. In this study we consider whether theory and methods developed to test for...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that influence Chinese apple farmers’ willingness to adopt organic farming, paying a special attention to the role of information acquisition. Design/methodology/approach Given that the selection bias may occur when farmers themselves...

As the world's largest developing economy, China plays a key role in global climate change and other environmental impacts of international concern. Environmentally extended input–output analysis (EE-IOA) is an important and insightful tool seeing widespread use in studying large-scale...

China's electricity sector has experienced substantial efficiency improvement during the last one and a half decades. The recent literature has mostly attributed the efficiency improvement to the 2002 unbundling reform with little attention paid to the large scale retrofitting process introduced...

Index Decomposition Analysis (IDA) has been extensively applied in studies of energy consumption and energy-related emissions. Most have focused on the impacts of industrial structural change and technology progress and a few have also looked at inter-fuel substitution. There has been no study...

In 2003, China's integrated electricity utility – the State Power Corporation (SPC) – was unbundled and dismantled into five generation groups and two grid companies in an effort to increase competition and improve efficiency. In this paper, we study the impact of this deregulation reform on...