China’s extensive and growing CO2 emissions are linked to rapid economic development and advancing urbanization, posing serious concerns in the context of climate change. Decomposition analysis has been widely performed to identify drivers of China’s CO2 emissions. However, to date, no...

China has undergone momentous changes and achieved remarkable economic progress since its economic reform and opening-up in 1978. Simultaneously, however, consequent resource depletion and environmental degradation have seriously restricted China’s sustainable industrial development. As a...

China has undergone momentous changes and achieved remarkable economic progress since its economic reform and opening-up in 1978. Simultaneously, however, consequent resource depletion and environmental degradation have seriously restricted China’s sustainable industrial development. As a...

Combining a popular flood disaster dataset with climate data and satellite land cover data from China, this paper estimates how forests mitigate the frequency of flooding, resulting in two major findings. First, we confirm that an increase in forest area mitigates the possibility of flood...