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Robinson, Reviewed by Priscilla. "Cents and Sustainability: Securing our Economic Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures." Australian Journal of Primary Health 17, no. 3 (2011): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pyv17n3_br1.
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Chovancová, Jana, and Juraj Tej. "Decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions: the case of the energy sector in V4 countries." Equilibrium 15, no. 2 (June 24, 2020): 235–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/eq.2020.011.
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Research background: The production and use of energy satisfies human needs, but also gives rise to a host of adverse environmental pressures, such as air pollution and waste generation. The issue of energy efficiency and climate chance resonates in the energy sector as one of the main producers of green-house gas emissions (GHG). While the European Union in general is doing well in reducing emissions and increasing the share of renewables, unfortunately, there are countries that are still far from reaching their goal.
Purpose of the article: The paper is focused on the quantitative assessment of the link between the economic growth of the energy sector and the production of GHG emissions by the energy sector in V4 countries during the period 1995–2016. For this purpose, decoupling analysis will be realized.
Methods: The decoupling of economic growth and the environmental pressures caused by this growth has a rich tradition within the sustainable development literature. The decoupling method was chosen for its ability to link economic and environmental indicators. Decoupling elasticity will be calculated with the aim of assessing the relationship between the economic growth of the energy sector (measured in GVA) and GHG emissions produced by the energy sector in V4 countries within the research period. Decoupling elasticity indicates different forms of the decoupling and coupling of the two variables.
Findings & Value added: The results of the analysis suggest the prevailing strong decoupling of the economic growth of the energy sector and GHG emissions produced by the energy sector, which can be considered a positive trend. The findings of this paper are relevant for the government, state and public institutions and stakeholders in general, who play important roles in the preparation of programs, projects and policies to make energy generation, transport and use more efficient and environmentally sustainable.
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Siping, Ji, Lv Wendai, Meng Liu, Yang Xiangjun, Yang Hongjuan, Chuan Yongming, Chen Haiyun, Tasawar Hayat, Ahmed Alsaedi, and Bashir Ahmad. "Decoupling environmental pressures from economic growth based on emissions monetization: Case in Yunnan, China." Journal of Cleaner Production 208 (January 2019): 1563–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.218.
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Yang, Zhen, Weijun Gao, and Jiawei Li. "Can Economic Growth and Environmental Protection Achieve a “Win–Win” Situation? Empirical Evidence from China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 16 (August 10, 2022): 9851. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19169851.
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Achieving a “win–win” situation regarding economic growth and environmental protection has become a common goal for sustainable development in all countries around the world. As the world’s largest developing country and the second largest economy, China has been striving to maintain economic growth while improving environmental quality to achieve its sustainable development goals. Applying the decoupling approach, a model widely used to quantify the relationship between the environment and the economy, this study analyzed the relationship between the economy and the environment, examining the decoupling performance of economic growth and environmental impacts in 30 Chinese provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities to investigate whether economic growth and environmental protection have achieved a “win–win” situation. Nighttime light (NTL) data were used to measure the performance of economic growth. In addition, an environmental pressure index (EPI) assessment framework covering 6 primary and 11 secondary indicators was constructed to measure the environmental quality of China over time. First, NTL data proved to be a valid data source for assessing decoupling performance; second, environmental pressure at both the national and provincial levels significantly decreased during the study period; third, the relationship between the economy and the environment has been further improved, and economic growth and environmental protection have achieved a “win–win” situation. These findings offer an in-depth analysis of the decoupling of the economy and the environment in China and serve as a guide for future implementation strategies for sustainable development in various regions.
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Hall, Ralph P. "Book Review: Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures." Journal of Planning Education and Research 32, no. 2 (May 7, 2012): 240–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456x11436364.
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Bai, Wei Nan, Qi Qiao, Yang Yao, Qi Hong Sun, Yu Yan Song, and Yang Xu. "An Analysis of Decoupling of Economic Development and Environmental Pressure Based on the Park Level: A Case of TEDA." Applied Mechanics and Materials 522-524 (February 2014): 1831–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.522-524.1831.
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Based on the decoupling elasticity model, an analysis is carried out on decoupling relationships between GDP and indicators of resource consumptions and pollutant emissions in Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA). Decoupling elastic coefficients (DECs) of GDP and energy consumption & water usage for nine years (2003-2011) along with the counterparts between GDP and emissions of COD & SO2 for six years (2006-2010), are calculated respectively. The results are as follows: first, the overall trends between development of GDP and intensity of resource consumptions and pollutant emissions per unit of GDP turn out to be almost perfect decoupling relationships. Second, the DECs of GDP and total energy consumption (TEC), along with weak or better decoupling in 6 of 7 years, displays in good condition from 2005 to 2011 and the ones of GDP and total water usage (TWU) improves a lot, compared to the period of 2004-2007, with a more favorable form of strong or weak decoupling during the period of 2008-2011. Third, strong (40%) or weak (60%) decoupling are witnessed among all the DECs between GDP and COD & SO2 for five years from 2006 to 2010. It is concluded that construction of eco-industrial park, the main practice of industrial ecology and theory of circular economy, accompanied with circulating fluidized transformation, is powerful driving force for TEDA to realize decoupling relationships between economic growth and environmental pressures and can contribute to achievement of decoupling at bigger level, country or regions.
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Junissov, A., A. Bekaliyev, A. Adamov, and S. G. Poulopoulos. "Evaluation of decoupling of GDP and energy in Central Asia." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 899, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/899/1/012029.
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Abstract Currently, economic growth remains the main criterion of development. However, it does come along with threats to the environment, due to its link to the increased energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. Decoupling can be used to break this link and stop jeopardizing the environment in the favor of economic progress. This paper focuses on the decoupling between economic growth and energy consumption in each of five Central Asian countries – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – from 1990 to 2014. The Tapio decoupling model was implemented in order to determine the decoupling states for each country. Gross domestic product (GDP) was used to represent the economic growth, and the total primary energy supply (TPES) described the environmental pressure. These data were obtained from the IKE World Energy Balances. Both the GDP and the TPES of most of the Central Asian countries had a parabolic trend of initial drop and further increase during the timespan analyzed. This observation can be explained by the collapse of USSR and the transition to market economy. The results of the decoupling analysis can be divided into two stages for Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and into three stages for Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, with several different decoupling states observed during each stage. According to the results, the main decoupling states in Central Asia were expansive negative decoupling, expansive coupling, weak decoupling, and strong decoupling. The analysis showed that there is a serious environmental pressure on the economic development in Central Asia.
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Yu, Yadong, Dingjiang Chen, Bing Zhu, and Shanying Hu. "Eco-efficiency trends in China, 1978–2010: Decoupling environmental pressure from economic growth." Ecological Indicators 24 (January 2013): 177–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.06.007.
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Ji, Yanli, and Jie Xue. "Decoupling Effect of County Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth in China: Empirical Evidence from Jiangsu Province." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 6 (March 10, 2022): 3275. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063275.
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Under the pressure of low-carbon development at county level in China, this paper takes Jiangsu province as an example to analyze the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions, aiming to provide a reference for the low-carbon development in Jiangsu and other regions in China. Based on the county-level panel data from 2000 to 2017, this paper uses the Tapio elasticity model and environmental Kuznets curve model, and focuses on the differences in regional economic development and the impacts of the 2008 global economic crisis. The results show that, in general, the decoupling effect of carbon emissions in Jiangsu counties has gradually increased during the study period. Since 2011, all counties achieved the speed decoupling, with more than half of them showing strong decoupling. The environmental Kuznets curves of carbon emissions in different income groups are established, and changed before and after the 2008 global economic crisis. In 2017, only 10 of the 53 counties were on the right side of the curve, realizing the quantity decoupling between the two. Therefore, to achieve a win–win situation between carbon emission reduction and economic growth, efforts should be made from the aspects of industrial structure and energy efficiency, and measures should be taken according to local conditions.
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Guan, Shuai, Qi Liao, Wenjun Wu, Chuan Yi, and Yueming Gao. "Revealing the Coupling Relationship between the Gross Ecosystem Product and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Hubei Province." Sustainability 14, no. 13 (June 21, 2022): 7546. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14137546.
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The question of how to balance rapid economic growth with ecosystem pressures has become a key issue in recent years. Using the Tapio decoupling model, the spatial autocorrelation model, and the LMDI decomposition model, we analyzed the spatiotemporal variation in gross ecosystem product (GEP) in Hubei Province, studied the relationship between GEP and economic growth, and analyzed the driving factors of GEP variation. The results show that, during the period 2010–2019, the decoupling coefficient between GEP and economic growth in Hubei Province gradually decreased, while the decoupling relationship changed from weak decoupling to strong decoupling; this change is reflected not only in the decoupling index values of various cities but also in the number of changing cities, so this negative change should attract the attention of policy-makers. In addition, there is a significant local spatial autocorrelation in Hubei Province, mainly distributed in the northwest and southwest of the province, and the trend is becoming increasingly obvious. As the decoupling trend is negative, it is necessary to pay attention to local autocorrelation changes, especially in highly correlated cities, and take action to prevent the further exacerbation of such decoupling to maintain healthy economic and social development. Regarding the driving factors of GEP changes in Hubei Province, cities with strong decoupling and those with weak decoupling have certain differences, and different types of decoupling cities need to adopt different strategies to alleviate pressure on the ecological environment. Cities with a weak decoupling need to address the problem of pollutant emissions associated with industrial upgrading and the positive impact of scientific and technological innovation on the ecological environment. Cities with strong decoupling should not only address pollutant discharge but also improve the area of ecological land. From the perspective of urban development, the high-quality development trend of Wuhan, Yichang, Xiantao, Qianjiang, Xianning, and other cities shows a continuous trend of improvement. Ezhou, Jingzhou, Shennongjia, and other cities need to guard against the loss of ecosystems caused by economic growth.
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Bekaliyev, A., A. Junissov, Y. Kakimov, and S. G. Poulopoulos. "Evaluation of decoupling of GDP and CO2 emissions in EU-15." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 899, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/899/1/012028.
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Abstract Generally, economic growth is accompanied by an increase in energy consumption, which consequently leads to higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions. These, in turn, are the causes of global warming, which is one of the most acute environmental problems nowadays. Decoupling occurs when environmental pressure can be decreased without the negative effect of the economic growth of a country. This study is focused on the investigation of the decoupling of the economy and environmental pressure. The analysis was carried out for EU-15 countries for the period between 1990 and 2014. For the evaluation of decoupling the Tapio decoupling elasticity method was used. This method provides the extent of decoupling of the economy and environmental pressure for each country. The economy was measured in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), while the environmental pressure was represented by CO2 emissions from the public electricity and heat generation sector. The EU-15 countries were classified into three groups depending on the individual reduction targets following Kyoto Protocol. Group I had high values of reduction targets ranging from -28% to -12.5%, Group II had moderate values of reduction targets situated between -7.5% and 0%, and Group III had mild values of reduction targets from +4% to +27%. The results of this analysis show that there is strong fluctuation of the extent of decoupling between GDP and CO2 emissions for each country in the specified period. Therefore, there are no clear patterns of decoupling intensity that can be observed. However, it is important to notice that in almost every country the decoupling between GDP and CO2 emissions was either strong or weak. This study has shown that generally most of the countries achieved some extent of decoupling between the growth of the economy and the pressure on the environment. The countries that showed the decoupling of more than 80% of the specified period are Luxemburg, Ireland, and Italy. For most of the countries, the decoupling was deteriorated by the financial crisis of 2008. Another possible reason for the decrease in decoupling is the extensive use of renewable energy resources. While their application lowers the CO2 emissions, the high production and operation costs constrict the growth of the economy. Sweden, Finland, and Denmark had such situation.
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Schepelmann, Philipp, An Vercalsteren, José Acosta-Fernandez, Mathieu Saurat, Katrien Boonen, Maarten Christis, Giovanni Marin, Roberto Zoboli, and Cathy Maguire. "Driving Forces of Changing Environmental Pressures from Consumption in the European Food System." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (October 8, 2020): 8265. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12198265.
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The paper provides an integrated assessment of environmental and socio-economic effects arising from final consumption of food products by European households. Direct and indirect effects accumulated along the global supply chain are assessed by applying environmentally extended input–output analysis (EE-IOA). EXIOBASE 3.4 database is used as a source of detailed information on environmental pressures and world input–output transactions of intermediate and final goods and services. An original methodology to produce detailed allocation matrices to link IO data with household expenditure data is presented and applied. The results show a relative decoupling between environmental pressures and consumption over time and shows that European food consumption generates relatively less environmental pressures outside Europe (due to imports) than average European consumption. A methodological framework is defined to analyze the main driving forces by means of a structural decomposition analysis (SDA). The results of the SDA highlight that while technological developments and changes in the mix of consumed food products result in reductions in environmental pressures, this is offset by growth in consumption. The results highlight the importance of directing specific research and policy efforts towards food consumption to support the transition to a more sustainable food system in line with the objectives of the EU Farm to Fork Strategy.
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Hao, Yu, Zirui Huang, and Haitao Wu. "Do Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth Decouple in China? An Empirical Analysis Based on Provincial Panel Data." Energies 12, no. 12 (June 23, 2019): 2411. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12122411.
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Global warming has emerged as a serious threat to humans and sustainable development. China is under increasing pressure to curb its carbon emissions as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide. By combining the Tapio decoupling model and the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) framework, this paper explores the relationship between China’s carbon emissions and economic growth. Based on panel data of 29 provinces from 2007 to 2016, this paper quantitatively estimates the nexus of carbon emissions and economic development for the whole nation and the decoupling status of individual provinces. There is empirical evidence for the conventional EKC hypothesis, showing that the relationship between carbon emissions and per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is an inverted U shape and that the inflection point will not be attained soon. Moreover, following the estimation results of the Tapio decoupling model, there were significant differences between individual provinces in decoupling status. As a result, differentiated and targeted environmental regulations and policies regarding energy consumption and carbon emissions should be reasonably formulated for different provinces and regions based on the corresponding level of economic development and decoupling status.
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Pao, Hsiao-Tien, and Chun-Chih Chen. "Decoupling of environmental pressure and economic growth: evidence from high-income and nuclear-dependent countries." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27, no. 5 (December 17, 2019): 5192–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-07122-6.
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Wang, Xiaopeng, Xiang Chen, Yiman Cheng, Luyao Zhou, Yi Li, and Yongliang Yang. "Factorial Decomposition of the Energy Footprint of the Shaoxing Textile Industry." Energies 13, no. 7 (April 3, 2020): 1683. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13071683.
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To present great environmental pressure from energy consumption during textile production, this paper calculates the energy footprint (EFP) of Shaoxing’s textile industry, from 2005 to 2018. Moreover, this study analyzes the relationship between Shaoxing’s textile industry energy consumption and economic development by using decoupling theory. Furthermore, the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index decomposition method was employed to investigate the main factors that affect the EFP of Shaoxing’s textile industry. Research results show the following: (1) The growth rate of the total output value of Shaoxing’s textile industry was greater than the growth rate of the EFP, from 2005 to 2007. Thus, the decoupling state showed a weak decoupling, and EFP intensity decreased. (2) The EFP and economic growth were mainly based on the strong decoupling of Shaoxing’s textile industry from 2008 to 2015 (except for 2011), and EFP intensity declined further. (3) Economic recession in the textile industry was severe in Shaoxing, from 2016 to 2018, and the EFP also showed a downward trend. The state of decoupling appeared as a recessive decoupling (2016) and a weak negative decoupling (2017 and 2018), and EFP intensity first increased and then decreased. (4) The total effect of the factors affecting the EFP of the textile industry in Shaoxing demonstrated a pulling trend, and industrial scale played a significant role in driving the EFP. The energy consumption intensity effect contributed the largest restraint. This paper fills in the gaps in the environmental regulation means and methods of pillar industrial clusters in specific regions.
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Yu, Yadong, Li Zhou, Wenji Zhou, Hongtao Ren, Ali Kharrazi, Tieju Ma, and Bing Zhu. "Decoupling environmental pressure from economic growth on city level: The Case Study of Chongqing in China." Ecological Indicators 75 (April 2017): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.027.
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Shi, Jianwen. "Study on the Decoupling Relationship and Rebound Effect between Agricultural Economic Growth and Water Footprint: A Case of Yangling Agricultural Demonstration Zone, China." Water 14, no. 6 (March 21, 2022): 991. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w14060991.
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The coordinated development of the economy, water resources, and environment is key to the concept of sustainable development. In this study, in respect to the water footprint, it calculated the water resource input and sewage dilution for the Yangling Agricultural Demonstration Area during the agricultural economic growth period from 1999 to 2019. This study also established the Tapio decoupling analysis model on this basis to study the decoupling relationship between economic growth and the water resource environment, as well as its evolution law. A residual free-complete decomposition model was introduced to analyze the influence of the water resource input and sewage dilution on the agricultural economic growth in the Yangling Demonstration Area and its transmission mechanism. The results showed the following: (1) the economic growth and the blue and green water footprints of the Yangling Demonstration Area were decoupled from one another from 1999 to 2019, and the degree of decoupling between economic growth and the grey-water footprint was poor, indicating that economic growth had a more obvious promotion effect on the reduction of water resource consumption, and the pressure on the water environment was increased year by year; (2) the main factor affecting the reduction of water resource consumption in the Yangling Demonstration Area was the effect of technology, and this was greater than the effect of water resource consumption increments resulting from the expansion of the economic scale; (3) the progress of environmental governance technology was the main reason for the decrease in the grey-water footprint in the Yangling Demonstration Area. To improve the quality of our economic development, the pattern of economic development should be transformed to regulate economic growth and expand the scale, reducing water consumption, improving pollutant emission control technology, and making full use of water resources to provide evidence for a reasonable water resource management policy.
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Kang, Wenmei, Mou Wang, Ying Chen, and Ying Zhang. "Decoupling of the Growing Exports in Foreign Trade from the Declining Gross Exports of Embodied Energy." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 15 (August 5, 2022): 9625. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159625.
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Transforming the growth mode and realizing green and low-carbon development has been a global consensus and an important governance concept of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Whether economic growth can be decoupled from carbon emissions and energy consumption is a key indicator for measuring green and low-carbon development and is an inevitable requirement for achieving the goal of carbon neutrality before 2060. Based on the input–output tables for 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2018, this article calculated the embodied energy of export in China’s foreign trade and studied the elastic relationship and trend between the growth of foreign trade exports and the total embodied energy of export since China’s accession to the WTO. The following conclusions were drawn: (i) The embodied energy of China’s export was strongly decoupled from total export for the first time from 2012 to 2018, signaling that China’s economic, industrial, and energy structures entered a new stage. It was also the first strong decoupling achieved in the process of decoupling economic growth from energy consumption for the adoption of a low-carbon development path. Due to the pressure of international competition, the export sector had a relatively advanced level of efficiency, so it achieved decoupling earlier than the overall manufacturing sector and the consumption sector, which was in line with economic laws and the characteristics of China’s development stage. (ii) From 2007 to 2018, the embodied energy of export occupied a much smaller proportion of China’s total energy consumption, falling from the peak of 31.48% in 2007 to 26.57%, a drop of 4.91 percentage points. It showed that a larger share of energy consumption had taken place domestically and that the model mainly relying on export expansion to drive economic growth had begun to adjust. The conclusion of this research could also support the assertion of ‘accelerating the construction of a new development pattern with the domestic economic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other’ from the perspective of external exports and energy consumption. (iii) A causal analysis of the decoupling between the embodied energy of export and export volume demonstrated that, from 2002 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2012, the embodied energy of export and total export maintained the same direction but had different growth rates. The increase in total export volume was the main reason affecting the embodied energy of export. With the rapid growth of total export volume, the embodied energy of export was also growing rapidly. From 2012 to 2018, the embodied energy of export declined, and an analysis showed that the ‘total energy consumption coefficient’, i.e., technology effect, was the primary cause of the decline. With China’s high-quality development, green transformation, and other strategic advancements, the decoupling trend is expected to continue and expand to a larger economic field.
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Bobylev, S., S. Solovyeva, and P. Kiryushin. "The Collapse of the Global Consumption Model: in Search of Sustainability." World Economy and International Relations 66, no. 11 (2022): 92–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2022-66-11-92-100.
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New “climate change reality” is transforming the goals that were the most important two or three years ago. During the last few years, the EU, U.S., China, Japan and many other countries established new plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050–2060s. These new goals and plans towards achieving carbon neutrality and greening national economies require a fundamental change in consumption patterns. The growth in demand leads to an increase in consumption, which, in turn, stimulates an increase in production and the volume of resources involved (energy, minerals, land, water, etc.). One of the most important indicators of the global consumption model is decoupling, which means the growth of the economy without corresponding rise of environmental pressure and resource consumption. Although there were some signs of the decoupling effect in the developed countries during the previous two decades, it was not achieved on the global scale during that period. Moreover, by 2060s, the resource consumption of the world economy may escalate significantly. At the global level, the growth of consumption in developed countries can lead to an overall increase in the impact on the planet’s biosphere. This impact relates to the “export” of environmental costs from developed countries to developing ones, which can be clearly observed on the example of the greenhouse gas emissions indicator. The same pattern manifests itself as an increase in the UN Planetary pressures–adjusted Human Development Index. The general trend is: the higher the level of human development – the greater the index of the planetary pressure. Finally, the transition of mankind to sustainable development requires a profound transformation of consumption patterns due to the impossibility to maintain high environmentally intensive consumption standards for the next generations, based on the accomplished technological level, traditional economic model and established institutions.
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Rybaczewska-Błażejowska, Magdalena, and Aneta Masternak-Janus. "Assessing and Improving the Eco-Efficiency of Manufacturing: Learning and Challenges from a Polish Case Study." Energies 14, no. 23 (December 3, 2021): 8125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14238125.
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Manufacturing offers substantial opportunities for economic growth after COVID-19, as long as it delivers competitively priced goods while simultaneously reducing pressure on the environment. In this study, we present the methodological feasibility of the joint application of life cycle assessment (LCA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) for assessing eco-efficiency at the sector level. We employ this methodology to assess the environmental profiles of manufacturing in Poland in relation to their gross value added, and subsequently calculate the improvement targets for the eco-inefficient manufacturing industries. The study reveals that only the chemical industry is relatively eco-efficient, whereas the remaining industries have considerable room for improvement due to their very low eco-efficiency, and thus should follow the best practices established by the chemical industry. Although there are always individual paths for manufacturing industries to achieve the decoupling of economic growth from environmental pressure, activities such as the transformation of manufacturing methods to be less energy and material intensive and/or to be low-emission, the reincorporation of waste into the manufacturing processes, and the implementation of environmental management systems should become common targets of manufacturing in Poland.
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EVANS, YARA. "Book Review: "Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures" Michael H Smith, Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves and Cheryl Desha." Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 15, no. 03 (September 2013): 1380003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1464333213800033.
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Li, Rongrong, and Rui Jiang. "Investigating effect of R&D investment on decoupling environmental pressure from economic growth in the global top six carbon dioxide emitters." Science of The Total Environment 740 (October 2020): 140053. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140053.
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Hope, Geoffrey. "Cents and Sustainability: Securing our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures. M.H. Smith, K.C. Hargroves, & C. Desha (2010). Publisher: Earthscan, London, ISBN 9781844075294, pp. 405." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 27, no. 2 (2011): 256–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600000331.
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Gu, Xiao Wei, Qing Wang, Peng Fei Wang, Xiao Chuan Xu, Xiao Xu Wang, and Jian Ping Liu. "Measuring the Environmental Stress: Indicators and Application." Advanced Materials Research 518-523 (May 2012): 1561–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.518-523.1561.
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The sustainability of a nation’s social and economic development is fundamentally determined by how much the nation’s environmental system is strained by human activities, which is in turn determined by the pressure/burden created by human activities and the carrying capacity of the nation’s environment. Based on the material flows of an economy’s metabolism and the carrying capacity of the environment, two new aggregate indicators are proposed and formulated, one being the “total domestic environmental loading” which measures the gross environmental burden imposed on the domestic environment by human activities, and the other the “total environmental stress” which measures the intensity of environmental pressure on a nation’s environment. The indicators are applied to six nations, namely, China, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Japan, and The United States, for a number of years. Results show that, during the years from 1990 to 2002, China’s total environmental stress ranged from 57 to 82 metric tons per global hectare, exhibiting a trend of first rise, then fall and then rise again. The tendency of rebound in China’s total environmental stress after 2000 is a warning sign of further environmental degradation and should be taken seriously. During the comparison period (1993-1996), the ranking of the six nations with respect to total environmental stress, in a descending order, is China, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, The United States, and Austria. The total environmental stress values of the 5 industrial nations either remained relatively stable or declined, indicating that the environmental stress of these nations exhibited various degrees of “decoupling ” from their economic growth. China’s total environmental stress, however, experienced a steady increase in the same period and has a tendency of increase after 2002.
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Shi, Longyu, Xueqin Xiang, Wei Zhu, and Lijie Gao. "Standardization of the Evaluation Index System for Low-Carbon Cities in China: A Case Study of Xiamen." Sustainability 10, no. 10 (October 18, 2018): 3751. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10103751.
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The construction of a reasonable evaluation index system for low-carbon cities is an important part of China’s green development strategy in urban areas. In this study, based on the theoretical framework for the concept of low-carbon cities, the perspectives from three index systems—that is, the Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact, Response model of intervention (DPSIR), a complex ecosystem, and a carbon source/sink process—were integrated to extract common indicators from existing evaluation index systems for low-carbon cities. Subsequently, a standardized evaluation index system for low-carbon cities that contained five indicators—carbon emission, low carbon production, low carbon consumption, low-carbon policy, and social economic development—was established. Thereafter, Xiamen was selected for an empirical analysis by determining the indicator weight with an entropy weight method and by carrying out a comprehensive evaluation using a linear summation model. The results showed that the weights of the five selected primary indicators for the evaluation of low-carbon cities were: low-carbon production > low-carbon consumption > social economic development > carbon emission > low-carbon policy. Among the secondary indicators, the average entropy weight of “pollution emission” was the highest at 0.1591, while the average entropy weight of “urbanization rate” was the lowest at 0.0360. Furthermore, the comprehensive index of low-carbon development in 2015 was higher than that in 2010, while the rate of economic growth was greater than the growth rate of carbon emission, which indicated that the relative decoupling of economic growth from carbon emission was basically achieved.
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Andersen, Mikael Skou. "Decoupling Environmental Pressures and Economic Growth." Public Policy Research 12, no. 2 (June 2005): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1070-3535.2005.00386.x.
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Junnila, Seppo, Juudit Ottelin, and Laura Leinikka. "Influence of Reduced Ownership on the Environmental Benefits of the Circular Economy." Sustainability 10, no. 11 (November 7, 2018): 4077. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10114077.
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The circular economy has become a popular concept, suggesting economic growth with fewer emissions and reduced ownership as one of its key parameters. Based on the literature, however, it appears that the concept has not been sufficiently contested empirically. This study evaluates the carbon and material footprint implications of reduced ownership in the context of household consumption. We found that the reduced ownership does not automatically reduce the environmental impact of the production–consumption system in the context of households. Reduced ownership in the study did not have any noticeable influence on material footprint, and in the case of carbon footprint, it only had a mild positive influence in low-income households. The result is surprising, since both intuitively as well as based on the literature, moving from ownership to services should increase resource efficiency and reduce environmental impact. In the context of households, actual consumption and investment behavior seem to override the theoretical benefits of reduced ownership. In our study, the circular economy rebound and the willingness to invest in green products seems to explain quite well why the environmental impact of consumption is not reduced when households move from ownership to services. Households appear to spend the money saved from reduced ownership on carbon-intensive services; when they own the products themselves, they invest a more-than-average amount in the life cycle performance of the products. The paper’s implications for the circular economy as a concept for decoupling economic growth from environmental pressure is that one of its primary qualities, sharing and renting services instead of owning things, seems to offer only a partial solution for the dilemma. In order to fully benefit from reduced ownership, the circular economy should emphasize simultaneous change in both the production and consumption of services, as it seems that simply offering products for rent does not automatically reduce the environmental impact of the final demand.
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Schneider, Petra, Lukas Folkens, Andreas Meyer, and Tino Fauk. "Sustainability and Dimensions of a Nexus Approach in a Sharing Economy." Sustainability 11, no. 3 (February 11, 2019): 909. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11030909.
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Increasing global resource consumption puts the availability of natural mineral resources under significant pressure. One strategy to overcome this trend is the decoupling of economic growth and resource consumption and the application of circular economy approaches. These approaches aim at closing material cycles across sectoral boundaries. Beside these attempts, there are further options for action aimed at minimization of resource consumption through resource sharing approaches. This study investigates resource-saving potentials on different scales namely on a personal scale through sharing goods and services, but also in the frame of industrial symbiosis through sharing of secondary resources at a company scale. The environmental effects have been quantified using life cycle assessment examples for these two simulated cases. The results show for both resource consumption levels, resource savings potentials of up to 2 powers of ten, that can particularly be proven regarding the impact category ‘fossil resource depletion’. The emergence of industrial symbiosis can be identified by six factors: Resource, government, economy, company, technology, and society. The cases simulated in the study are supported by empirical evidence from real-life examples, which consider the mentioned factors.
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Korolchuk, Lesya V. "Decoupling of Economic Growth from Environmental Damage: A Theoretical Aspect." Scientific Bulletin of Mukachevo State University Series “Economics” 8, no. 1 (March 24, 2021): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.52566/msu-econ.8(1).2021.37-45.
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The relevance of the study is conditioned by the need for an in-depth investigation of decoupling as an indicator of the effectiveness of the state's implementation of the concept of sustainable development, which in the current trends of the world economy is dominant among countries. The purpose of the study is to improve and specify the theoretical foundations of decoupling economic growth from environmental damage. The methodological framework of the study included methods of empirical analysis, synthesis, induction, comparison, hypothetical-deductive method, as well as a systematic approach to the study of scientific papers of Ukrainian and foreign scientists, strategic environmental documents of authoritative international organisations on decoupling. The study identifies three content features of decoupling economic growth from environmental damage, related to the economic growth of the economic system and the environmental damage it causes, as well as two groups of factors of environmental damage: resource and environmental factors. The author has improved the definition of decoupling based on the analysis of existing definitions of this concept, by distinguishing them from common content features and their synthesis into a single whole. Types of decoupling and approaches to the classification of its degrees are considered: according to the method of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as the author's method of P. Tapio. It was found that absolute decoupling constitutes a priority in the context of the state's implementation of the concept of sustainable development, as it meets the signs of decoupling and the basic principles of sustainable development identified in the course of the study. The study offers ways of effective development and intensification of decoupling processes within the framework of state implementation of the concept of sustainable development. The practical value of the obtained research results is related to their further application in the processes of strategic planning at the national level, as well as in the development of an economic mechanism to stimulate the decoupling of economic growth from environmental damage
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Zhang, Yuying, Meiying Sun, Rongjin Yang, Xiuhong Li, Le Zhang, and Mingyue Li. "Decoupling water environment pressures from economic growth in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China." Ecological Indicators 122 (March 2021): 107314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107314.
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Xue, Jin. "Indicators of decoupling housing-related environmental impacts from economic growth." Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 27, no. 4 (March 11, 2012): 495–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10901-012-9278-5.
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Xue, Jin. "Potentials for decoupling housing-related environmental impacts from economic growth." Environmental Development 4 (October 2012): 18–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2012.08.003.
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Liu, Zening, and Yingchun Wang. "Analysis of Industrial Economic Growth and Environmental Pollution in Tianjin Based on Tapio Decoupling Model." E3S Web of Conferences 165 (2020): 02017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202016502017.
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In order to accelerate the construction of a resource-saving and environmentally-friendly industrial ecosystem, this paper uses the Tapio decoupling analysis model to calculate the decoupling index of Tianjin’s industrial economic growth and the major environmental pollutants of the industry from 2005 to 2015 and analyze the decoupling status. The results show that the decoupling state of Tianjin’s economic growth and environmental pollution from 2005 to 2015 is generally in a strong positive decoupling and a weak growth decoupling, but the decoupling state of some environmental pollution factors has temporarily deteriorated. The relationship between industrial economic growth and industrial pollutant emissions has eased in the 12th Five-Year Plan.
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Li, Yi, Jie Shen, Linyi Lu, Yan Luo, Laili Wang, and Manhong Shen. "Water environmental stress, rebound effect, and economic growth of China’s textile industry." PeerJ 6 (June 29, 2018): e5112. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5112.
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The rapid development of China’s textile industry (TI) has led to severe water environmental stress. Water environmental stress of China’s TI mainly comes from large quantities of discharged wastewater and chemical oxygen demand (COD). The sustainable development of the TI is realized to achieve the decoupling between economic growth and water environmental stress. This study analyzes the decoupling elasticity results from wastewater discharge and COD discharge, respectively. Decoupling results show that TI’s wastewater has strong decoupling from economic growth for three years (2002, 2013–2014) while COD has strong decoupling for six years (2002–2003, 2008, 2010, 2013–2014). The paper further calculates the decoupling elasticity results of the TI’s three sub-sectors (manufacture of textile sector, manufacture of textile wearing and apparel sector, and manufacture of chemical fibers (MCF) sector), and calculates the factors that affect wastewater discharge. The decrement and rebound effects of wastewater discharge are analyzed based on calculated results. Decomposition results show that the scale factor is the most significant contributor to wastewater discharge, the intensity factor inhibits wastewater discharge, and the effect of the structure factor is not evident. The decrement effect of TI increases yearly, but the rebound effect shows that the absolute amount of wastewater discharge also increases. The rebound effect has declined since 2012. In the three sub-sectors, MCF’s decrement effect is the strongest, and its rebound effect is the weakest, which indicate that MCF is the biggest contributor to the discharge reduction of China’s TI.
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Li, Kejun, Ya Zhou, Huijuan Xiao, Zeng Li, and Yuli Shan. "Decoupling of economic growth from CO2 emissions in Yangtze River Economic Belt cities." Science of The Total Environment 775 (June 2021): 145927. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145927.
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Li, Zhidong, and Zhifan Zhou. "Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Decoupling Economic Growth from Environment Costs in China’s Resource-Based Cities." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2020 (June 10, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1283740.
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Most of China’s resource-based cities are recently threatened by the problems of environmental pollution, resource depletion, and even economic recession. There is an urgent need for these cities to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation through improving resource utilization efficiency and eco-efficiency. This paper quantitatively evaluates the decoupling trends between GDP and environmental damage in major Chinese resource-based cities using big data. To explore the decoupling trends in the development of 115 resource-based cities in China, we develops a model to evaluate the eco-efficiency between economic growth and environmental pollution. Industrial pollutants are used as indicators of environmental degradation and GDP as an index for economic growth. This study finds diverse decoupling levels among the cities and that nearly one-third are developing unsustainably. The cities have encountered serious environmental problems due to past economic policies which have encouraged extensive GDP growth for the past 4 decades. This study demonstrates that the urban development and environmental protection of Chinese resource-based cities are not on a good path. It will be more difficult for the cities with quicker GDP growth to achieve a satisfactory decoupling trend. Therefore, there is an urgent need for industries to undertake resource-conserving and environmental protection measures, and, particularly, endorse technology innovation and the green economy. In order to achieve an overall balanced decoupling in China’s resource-based cities, it is essential for local governments to encourage environmentally friendly behaviors and enhance eco-efficiency when developing the country’s economy. Finally, the findings illustrate significant unbalanced decoupling levels across Chinese resource-based cities.
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Wang, Haobing, Sisi Xia, Qiyue Zhang, and Ping Zhang. "Has China’s Construction Waste Change Been Decoupled from Economic Growth?" Buildings 12, no. 2 (January 31, 2022): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020147.
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Construction waste management is crucial to the sustainable development of the construction industry and environmental management, and China has the highest construction waste emission in the world, making it typical and representative globally. In this paper, we conducted an empirical study on the relationship between the change in construction waste and economic growth at the provincial level in China from 2009 to 2018 based on a decoupling model and spatial analysis methods, and we reached the findings as follows. (1) Most provinces in China are still in the stage of continuous growth of construction waste emissions, and about 30% have reached the peak (inverted U-shaped), prominently characterized by inter-provincial spatial heterogeneity and agglomeration. (2) The decoupling types between inter-provincial construction waste and construction economic growth in China are dominated by weak decoupling, expansive coupling, and recessive decoupling, and they are changing in general with positive signs but in a more diversified and complex trend. (3) Based on the analysis results, this paper classifies China into three types of policy zones, namely transformation, adjustment, and stabilization, and proposes differentiated and targeted recommendations to provide an important decision basis for the design of construction waste management policies in China and similar countries and to help achieve a “zero waste society” in early global development.
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Zhao, Ming-Ming, and Rongrong Li. "Decoupling and decomposition analysis of carbon emissions from economic output in Chinese Guangdong Province: A sector perspective." Energy & Environment 29, no. 4 (January 22, 2018): 543–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958305x17754253.
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South China’s Guangdong Province, the Chinese largest provincial economy and the global 14th biggest economy, has been facing a huge challenge of achieving economic growth without emission growth. Developing new strategy for making economic growth compatible carbon reduction requires better understanding of the decoupling carbon emission from economic growth. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive decoupling and decomposition analysis of carbon emission from economic output in Guangdong Province from a sector perspective. We firstly calculate carbon emission in six sectors based on the energy consumption of each sector and carbon coefficient of 13 types of fuels during 2000–2014, and then quantify the decoupling status between CO2 emissions and economic growth in those six sectors by using the Tapio decoupling index, finally, investigate the influencing factors of emissions by using the decomposition techniques. The modeling results show that agricultural sector has strong decoupling, industrial, transport and others sectors are weak decoupling; construction and trade sectors are expansive negative decoupling. We also find that energy intensity and economic output are the major factors influencing carbon emission, also the effects of energy structure and emission factor among six sectors are studied. Some policy recommendations finally are put forward.
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Vintar Mally, Katja. "The Performance of European Union Countries in Decoupling Socio-Economic Progress from Environmental Impacts." Dela, no. 54 (February 12, 2021): 105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dela.54.105-123.
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Over the last few decades, the European Union has intensified its commitments to decouple socio-economic progress from resource use and environmental impacts. This article examines the performance of countries in implementing selected aspects of these commitments in the period 1990–2016. To this end, it focuses on the relationships between progress in human development, in particular in raising people’s incomes, and pressures on natural resources and ecosystem services, as incorporated in the concept of ecological footprint. The results show a certain measure of success in decoupling the two among the countries of the European Union, but the same cannot be said of the world’s countries more generally.
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Zhu, Feng, Xu Wu, and Yuee Gao. "Decomposition analysis of decoupling freight transport from economic growth in China." Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 78 (January 2020): 102201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.12.003.
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Martinico-Perez, Marianne Faith G., Heinz Schandl, Tomer Fishman, and Hiroki Tanikawa. "The Socio-Economic Metabolism of an Emerging Economy: Monitoring Progress of Decoupling of Economic Growth and Environmental Pressures in the Philippines." Ecological Economics 147 (May 2018): 155–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.01.012.
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Hua, Jingfen, Junli Gao, Ke Chen, and Jiaqi Li. "Driving Effect of Decoupling Provincial Industrial Economic Growth and Industrial Carbon Emissions in China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 1 (December 22, 2022): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20010145.
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China is facing the dual challenges of fostering economic growth and mounting an effective response to climate change, so it is vital to continue promoting industrial carbon emission reduction. This paper uses panel data from 1998 to 2019 to measure the industrial carbon emissions of 30 provinces in China. The Tapio decoupling and IPAT (Impact = Population × Affluence × Technology)-based decoupling models are used to analyze each province’s velocity and quantity decoupling index for industrial carbon emissions. The fixed effect model analyzes the influencing factors for carbon decoupling. The results show that the industrial carbon emissions of various provinces in China are increasing yearly, but there are significant differences among provinces. The carbon decoupling of the industrial economy in most provinces is weak, and the quantitative decoupling index is better than the velocity decoupling index. The cleanliness of energy, balance, and labor productivity significantly affect the velocity decoupling index. The cleanliness of energy, the industry’s structure, and the population significantly affect the quantity decoupling index. Based on empirical results, the study puts forward some policies to promote the efficient carbon decoupling of the industrial economy.
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Engo, Jean. "Decomposing the decoupling of CO2 emissions from economic growth in Cameroon." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25, no. 35 (October 22, 2018): 35451–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3511-z.
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Jiang, Yefeng, Shuo Tian, Zhenci Xu, Lei Gao, Liujun Xiao, Songchao Chen, Kang Xu, Jinfeng Chang, Zhongkui Luo, and Zhou Shi. "Decoupling environmental impact from economic growth to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in China." Journal of Environmental Management 312 (June 2022): 114978. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114978.
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Pepelyaeva, Anna, and Aleksandra Krutova. "Assessing the decoupling of economic growth from environmental impacts in industrial regions of the Russian Federation: an impact decoupling approach." SHS Web of Conferences 116 (2021): 00026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202111600026.
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The article analyzes the dynamics of the economic activity level in Russian industrial regions and its impact on the main environmental elements (water, air and soil) by calculating the decoupling coefficient. In the study a hierarchical cluster analysis was carried out, resulted in the formation of seven regional clusters, five of which had a significant share of the industrial sector in the gross value-added structure. Decoupling coefficients were calculated for 64 constituent entities of the Russian Federation belonging to different types of industrial clusters. The ecological and economic balance assessment of industrial regions growth showed the decoupling effect presence for most of them. The movement towards environmentally sustainable growth is more evident in the regions of the industrially diversified cluster. The analysis of three decoupling coefficients showed that in the vast majority of industrial regions the growth rates of pollutant emissions into the atmosphere and the growth rates of polluted wastewater discharges into surface water change at a lower rate than per capita GRP, which indicates a “green trend” in the region’s economic activity. However, the decoupling coefficient, showing the dynamics ratio of production and consumption waste and GRP per capita, has negative value in 37.5% of regions. The most problematic one in terms of this indicator was the Trade and manufacturing cluster, including 21 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. According to the authors, it may be related to the trade sector of these regions.
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Yuan, Ruxue, Caiyao Xu, and Fanbin Kong. "Decoupling agriculture pollution and carbon reduction from economic growth in the Yangtze River Delta, China." PLOS ONE 18, no. 1 (January 20, 2023): e0280268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280268.
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Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy, and agricultural nonpoint source pollution and carbon emissions are the main environmental problems limiting the development of the agricultural economy. This study takes the Yangtze River Delta as the research object and measures agricultural carbon emissions and nonpoint source pollution in the study area from 2010 to 2020 respectively. The Tapio decoupling model is used to study types of decoupling between agricultural pollution and carbon reduction and economic growth in the Yangtze River Delta from 2010 to 2020, and the GM (1,1) model is used to predict the decoupling relationship between the agricultural environment and economic growth over the next ten years. The results show the following: (1) Agricultural COD emissions come mainly from livestock and poultry breeding, dropped from 1,130,120 tons in 2010 to 908,460 tons in 2020. Agricultural TN and TP emissions come mainly from plantations. Agricultural TN emissions dropped from 892,310 tons in 2010 to 788,020 tons in 2020. Agricultural TP emissions dropped from 149,590 tons in 2010 to130,770 tons in 2020. Agricultural carbon emissions dropped from 17,115,900 tons in 2010 to 15,786,600 tons in 2020, and come mainly from agricultural fertilizer and diesel fuel and pig breeding. (2) The decoupling effect of agricultural pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the Yangtze River Delta and economic growth has been in a long-term state, with negative decoupling occurring in a few regions, mainly in 2011, 2014 and 2020. (3) In the next ten years, except for 2021, when the coordination between agricultural pollution reduction and economic growth is poor, the two show good decoupling in the remaining years. Based on the results, this study makes recommendations on how to carry out comprehensive environmental management and promote green agricultural development.
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Liu, Wenxin, Ruifan Xu, Yue Deng, Weinan Lu, Boyang Zhou, and Minjuan Zhao. "Dynamic Relationships, Regional Differences, and Driving Mechanisms between Economic Development and Carbon Emissions from the Farming Industry: Empirical Evidence from Rural China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 5 (February 25, 2021): 2257. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052257.
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The coordinated development of the economy, resources, and environment is a key aspect of sustainable development. China’s rapid agricultural modernization has been accompanied by the continuous growth of rural economic aggregate and carbon emissions from the planting industry. However, the quantitative relationship between these two factors and its internal mechanism are not yet fully understood. In this paper, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) method is used to calculate the carbon emissions of the planting industry in China from 1998–2019. Based on this, the Tapio decoupling analysis model was constructed to study the decoupling relationship between economic development and carbon emissions of the planting industry in China from 1998–2019 and the associated spatial and temporal evolution patterns. The effect of the complete decomposition model (without residuals), in terms of carbon emissions from the planting industry, on the process of economic development and its transmission mechanism are introduced. The results show that: (1) The carbon emissions of the planting industry in China increased with the economic development occurring from 1998–2005, where agricultural economic development was highly dependent on resource factors and the environment. The growth trend of carbon emissions of the planting industry slowed from 2006 to 2019, while economic development has gradually realized the decoupling of carbon emissions from the planting industry. (2) From 1998–2019, in Heilongjiang, Sichuan, and Hunan, the economic development was given priority, showing strong and negative decoupling with carbon emissions from farming. The economic development in most regions were given priority, showing strong decoupling with carbon emissions from farming. Up to 2019, decoupling was observed with a significant trend of spatial agglomeration. (3) Economic scale effects had a positive influence on the carbon emissions of the planting industry, while the technology effect and population effect had an inhibiting influence on the carbon emissions of the planting industry. The key policy implication of this paper is that improvement of the quality of economic development serves as the premise for the transformation of the economic development mode. It is necessary to reasonably regulate the economic growth rate and expansion scale, reduce resource consumption and pollutant emission technology, and to make full use of resources, in order to provide a basis for the formulation of reasonable emission reduction policies. An effective way to realize the sustainable development of the agricultural economy would be to improve the technical efficiency, control the population scale appropriately, and optimize the agricultural industrial structure.
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Qin, Xiaohua, and Xingming Li. "Evaluate on the Decoupling of Tourism Economic Development and Ecological-Environmental Stress in China." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 17, 2021): 2149. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042149.
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Tourism economic development is increasingly dependent on resources and environment. Exploring the relationship between tourism economic development and ecological-environmental (eco-environmental) stress is of great significance to promote the high-quality growth of tourism and the sustainable and coordinated development of ecological environment. By constructing a tourism economic development index and an eco-environmental stress index, this study analyzes the temporal and spatial evolution of tourism economic development and eco-environmental stress from 2009 to 2018 in China. It uses a decoupling model to evaluate the relationship between tourism economic development and ecological-environmental stress, and analyzes the reasons for the changes of decoupling relationship. The results show that: (1) During the study period, the development of tourism economy and the eco-environmental stress present a certain time-space effect characteristics. The stress index of China’s tourism economic development and ecological environment showed a fluctuating trend of first decreasing and then increasing, with obvious spatial hierarchical differences and weak agglomeration characteristics, and prominent regional imbalances. The tourism economic development level in the eastern region was higher than that in the central and western regions, while the ecological environment stress in the central region was greater than that in the eastern and western regions. (2) The relationship between tourism economic development and ecological environmental stress of China’s provinces has experienced eight states: Expansive negative decoupling, strong negative decoupling, weak negative decoupling, recessive coupling, expansive coupling, strong decoupling, weak decoupling, and recessive decoupling. During the study period, the state of optimal strong decoupling tends to weaken. Under the constraints of local policy orientation and regional economic development level, the overall decoupling optimization could not be achieved spatially. The decoupling state was always in an unsustainable non-optimal stage. (3) The reasons for the differential changes in the decoupling index between tourism economic development and ecological environmental stress in Chinese provinces come from investment-driven, resource-driven, innovation-driven, and environmental compliance push. This study can provide practical reference for promoting the high-quality development of tourism and the sustainable development of ecological environment.
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Wang, Shangjiu, Shaohua Zhang, and Liang Cheng. "Drivers and Decoupling Effects of PM2.5 Emissions in China: An Application of the Generalized Divisia Index." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 2 (January 4, 2023): 921. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20020921.
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Although economic growth brings abundant material wealth, it is also associated with serious PM2.5 pollution. Decoupling PM2.5 emissions from economic development is important for China’s long-term sustainable development. In this paper, the generalized Divisia index method (GDIM) is extended by introducing innovation indicators to investigate the main drivers of PM2.5 pollution in China and its four subregions from 2008 to 2017. Afterwards, a GDIM-based decoupling index is developed to examine the decoupling states between PM2.5 emissions and economic growth and to identify the main factors leading to decoupling. The obtained results show that: (1) Innovation input scale and GDP are the main drivers for increases in PM2.5 emissions, while innovation input PM2.5 intensity, emission intensity, and emission coefficient are the main reasons for reductions in PM2.5 pollution. (2) China and its four subregions show general upward trends in the decoupling index, and their decoupling states turn from weak decoupling to strong decoupling. (3) Innovation input PM2.5 intensity, emission intensity, and emission coefficient contribute largely to the decoupling of PM2.5 emissions. Overall, this paper provides valuable information for mitigating haze pollution.
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Su, Min, Shasha Wang, Rongrong Li, and Ningning Guo. "Decomposition analysis of the decoupling process between economic growth and carbon emission in Beijing city, China: A sectoral perspective." Energy & Environment 31, no. 6 (October 24, 2019): 961–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958305x19882402.
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Cities play a major role in decoupling economic growth from carbon emission for their significant role in climate change mitigation from national level. This paper selects Beijing (economic center and leader of emission reduction in China) as a case to examine the decoupling process during the period 2000–2015 through a sectoral decomposition analysis. This paper proposes the decoupling of carbon emission from economic growth or sectoral output by defining the Tapio decoupling elasticity, and combined the decoupling elasticity with decomposition technique such as Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index approach. The results indicate that agriculture and industrial sectors presented strong decoupling state, and weak decoupling is detected in construction and other industrial sectors. Meanwhile, transport sector is in expansive negative decoupling while trade industry shows expansive coupling during the study period. Per-capita gross domestic product, industrial structure, and energy intensity are the most significant effects influencing the decoupling process. Agriculture and industry are conducive to decoupling of carbon emissions from economic output, while transport and trade are detrimental to the realization of strong decoupling target between 2000 and 2015. However, construction and other industrial sectors exerted relatively little minor impact on the whole decoupling process. Improving and promoting energy-saving technologies in transport sector and trade sector should be the key strategy adjustments for Beijing to reduce carbon emissions in the future. The study aims to provide effective policy adjustments for policy makers to accelerate the decoupling process in Beijing, which, furthermore, can lay a theoretical foundation for other cities to develop carbon emission mitigation polices more efficiently.