"This book systematically analyses how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China's sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in...

Synergistic carbon emission reduction at the urban scale is an inherent requirement for China to realize its carbon emission reduction commitments and promote sustainable and regional synergistic development. Using 16 prefectural cities in Shandong Province as an example, this study defines and...

As palladium is a kind of scarce metal that is widely used in industry, it is essential to recover palladium from secondary resources, especially acidic mediums. Chemically modified carbon materials not only have the advantage of activated carbon but also achieve the precise removal of specific...

Industrial emissions are the main source of atmospheric pollutants in China. Accurate and reasonable prediction of the emission of atmospheric pollutants from a single enterprise can determine the exact source of atmospheric pollutants and precisely control atmospheric pollution. Based on...

This paper studies the impact of air pollution on corporate R&D expense in emerging countries. The empirical results show that firms substantially reduce R&D expense in face of increasing air pollution, and those firms in emerging countries with high levels of human capital or GDP per capita...