Land finance is a special land financing mode in China under the nationalization of urban land since 1954. The policy authorizes local governments to collect fiscal revenue from land grant premiums and land taxes. As China is experiencing the social and economic transformation, heavily replying...

Green innovation is a costly and risky process that enables firms to improve their energy efficiency and maintain sustainable growth. In this study, we investigate whether cross-listing shares in developed markets encourages firms from developing markets to engage in green innovation. By...

This paper presents results of a project, funded by the British Academy, on perceptions of SEA effectiveness in two countries with formal SEA requirements, but with very different planning and decision-making traditions: the UK and China. Similarities and differences are described, based on a...

This paper advocates a modification of the impact-based approach to strategic environmental assessment (SEA) which seems unable to address institutional weaknesses in most conventional SEA cases in China. It identifies a possible alternative approach, i.e. an impact-centred SEA with...

China has made ambitious carbon emission reduction commitments at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015. However, studies or the policies that have been adopted is based on production accounting principle and excessively concentrated in high direct carbon intensity industries. This...