Green travel is essential to the sustainability of environment and transportation and considerably contributes to city decarbonization. The covid-19 pandemic has dramatically transformed the way of travel, yet the hidden factors that drive those changes are still uncertain. This paper develops a...

This paper studies the effect of government land supply, allocate and use regulations on housing supply elasticity in urban China. In particular, we first extend the theoretical framework of Saiz (2010), then investigate the marginal effect of each land regulation and calculate the reduction of...

Mesoporous TiO2-Al2O3 composites with different Ti/Al molar ratios were successfully synthesized via pre-hydrolysis co-precipitation method and the corresponding NiW supported hydrotreating (HDT) catalysts were prepared via incipient wetness co-impregnation method. The effects of Ti modification...

The migrants usually need to bear two main costs: mobility cost and housing cost. In China, hukou constraint and land regulation affect labor migration through mobility cost and housing cost respectively, further affect labor spatial allocation and economic growth. We construct a spatial general...

The breadth and depth of forward linkages in the tropical timber industry of Gabon is a result of three inter-acting drivers: the nature of final markets, ownership of production, and sector-specific policy. The Forestry Code set explicit domestic processing targets built on the trajectory of...

This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population challenges the small-country assumption inherent...

Purpose Domestic demand for walnuts has been on the rise for the last decades. Consumption outstrips domestic production capacities, which led to increasing prices until recently. Small-scale farmers are at the centre of walnut tree planting and walnut collection efforts. Farmers are now...