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As the largest developing country in the world, with rapid economic growth, China has witnessed fast-paced urbanization … development over the past three decades. In fact, urbanization has been shown to promote economic growth and improve the … understanding of the relationship between urbanization, economic growth and energy consumption is important for China’s future …
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Discussions on how to define, design, and implement sustainable development goals (SDG) have taken center stage in the United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an important area for SDGs to address. Many proposals have...
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the idea of continuing economic growth. In recent times the financial collapse of October 2008 has given rise to yet … another set of pleas from corporations and politicians alike to restart the growth machine. The transition to renewable energy … growth will be curtailed being set. It is possible that the irrational insistence on endless growth as a non negotiable axiom …
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Government policy aimed at curbing carbon emissions often focusses on encouraging individual action, however the effectiveness of this approach has been limited. Investigations of why this might be have included segmentation, to identify different groups who undertake more or less action, and...
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countries continue to increase, they would also require more natural and financial resources to sustain their growth. We …. We also provide estimations for potentially needed immediate growth of the world resource consumption to meet this …. These estimates predict that the world economy would need to find a development model where growth would be achieved without …
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carbon emissions from 2007 to 2030, and the impacts on China’s economic growth, energy consumption, and carbon emissions … that during the simulation period, China’s economy will keep a relatively high growth rate, but the growth rate will slow … optimize. With the economic growth, the total energy consumption will constantly increase, and the carbon dioxide emissions are …
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annual growth rate of 13.49%, and oil met 94.49% of this energy demand by 2010; (2) among present transportation modes … consumption has lagged behind that of economic growth. Correspondingly, some recommendations for energy policy were presented. …
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The changes of spatial pattern in energy consumption have an impact on global climate change. Based on the spatial autocorrelation analysis and the auto-regression model of spatial statistics, this study has explored the spatial disparities and driving forces in energy consumption changes in...
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growth has brought about a large demand for energy. The present study provides an overview of China’s non-metallic mineral …
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Residential energy consumption contributes up to one-fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions in Australia. Low-income households could benefit from energy efficiency behaviour change programs with anticipated “bridge sustainability” outcomes of environmental and financial benefits and...
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