Embodied energy in service industry in global cities: A study of six Asian cities

Guo, Shan; Li, Yilin; Hu, Yunhao; Xue, Fan; Chen, Bin; Chen, Zhanming

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104264

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“…In the eastern market, the port factor has a significant impact. is is due to the rapid development of China's coastal and inland port transportation, which has played a huge role in the transportation of raw materials and products in chemical cities [31]. is has also prompted the transformation of the chemical city from the layout of raw materials to the advantageous layout of water transportation.…”

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“…Existing research has focused on the development and layout of industrial cities, including the industrial layout and environmental effects of mining, coal, coal chemical, and resource-based cities [6,20,[31][32][33]. With the evolution of the unreasonable industrial structure of coal-dependent cities, which are mainly distributed in China, Australia, the United States, Russia, and India, the corresponding cities are facing resource wastage, pollutant emissions, and fragile ecological structures [34].…”

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Exploring the Classification and Restructuring of Chemical Industrial Cities in China: The Perspectives of Sectoral and Spatial Differences

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As an economic pillar, major resource consumer, and polluter of cities, the chemical industry determines many cities’ transformation, prosperity, and decay. It is thus a major concern for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In China, which is at the stage of accelerated industrialization that is varied across regions, the chemical industry has gradually retreated from developed cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, in the eastern region, and has become the inevitable choice for industrialization of less-developed cities, such as Xi’an, Chengdu, and Chongqing, in the western region. This study took the perspectives of chemical industrial sectors and their spatial differences to understand the changing patterns of the chemical industry and its dominant cities. It identified chemical industrial cities (CICs), examined their spatial-temporal patterns with respect to their industry scale and structure, and accounted for factors influencing the spatial evolution from coastal areas to inland regions. The results show that large CICs were mainly located in coastal port regions with balanced industrial sectors, while small CICs were mainly distributed in inland areas with abundant oil and coal resources and a single dominant industrial sector. The location factors of ports, markets, and technology play important roles in the eastern region, while resource conditions and foreign direct investment promote the chemical industry’s development in the central, western, and northeastern cities. These findings improve the understanding of CICs’ spatial transformation and shed light on the policy-making of chemical industrial development in China and other developing countries.

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“…In recent decades, research on embodied energy using input-output analysis has been developed in a spurt with the continuous improvement of input-output technology, along with the growing enrichment of energy statistics in various countries and different input-output databases. The related literature can be divided according to the research scale, including the global level (Bortolamedi, 2015;Chen and Wu, 2017;Jiang et al, 2020), multilateral country level (Wu and Chen, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019), bilateral country level (Yang et al, 2014;Tao et al, 2018), single-country level (Costanza, 1980;Lenzen, 1998;Machado et al, 2001;Lam et al, 2019;Wang and Yang, 2020), region level (Sun et al, 2017;Guo et al, 2020a;Zheng et al, 2020), city level (Chen and Chen, 2015;Guo et al, 2015Guo et al, , 2020b, and sector level (Liu et al, 2012, Liu et al, 2020aSun et al, 2016;Guo et al, 2019). There are also numerous studies regarding the research of embodied energy of different energy varieties, such as coal (Xia et al, 2017;Wu and Chen, 2018), oil (Tang et al, 2012;Wu and Chen, 2019;Wang and Yang, 2020), natural gas (Kan et al, 2019(Kan et al, , 2020, biomass (Ji et al, 2020), and nuclear energy (Cortés-Borda et al, 2015).…”

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Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

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2021

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Energy issues are closely related to the development of human society and economy. Embodied energy is the total direct and indirect energy consumption required for the production of goods and services. In the context of the intensifying development of economic globalization and prosperity of international trade, embodied energy is considered as a better indicator to comprehensively reflect the nature of a country’s energy use than the direct energy use. The development of trade in value added (TiVA) accounting and global value chain theory has brought new ideas to embodied energy research. This study applies TiVA accounting to the study of embodied energy and establishes a complete framework to decompose the sources, destinations, and transfer routes of embodied energy in a country’s exports, and comprehensively depicts the embodied energy flows in China’s exports at the country and sector levels as an instance. The results show that China exports large amounts of embodied domestic energy use, and export is an important factor for the rapid growth of China’s energy and emissions. At the country level, the United States and EU28 are traditional major importers of China, and developing countries, such as Brazil, India, and Indonesia, are emerging markets. China’s embodied energy flows to different importers vary in terms of trade patterns, flow routes, and the embodied domestic energy intensities. At the sector level, the light industry and the services create more benefits, whereas manufacturing, such as chemicals and metal products, consumes more energy, and there is a mismatch between the main sectors that create economic benefits from exports and the main sectors that consume energy for exports. These results indicate that embodied energy of China’s exports has a great impact on global energy consumption and carbon emission, and the optimizing of China’s export embodied energy structure is conducive to global energy conservation and emission reduction. This article strongly suggests the importance of the global value chain decomposition framework in embodied energy research.

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“…Guo et al [30] Embodied energy of the service industry in six Asian cities Service industries consume 17.02-46.40% of the total embodied energy in the six cities.…”

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How to Effectively Control Energy Consumption Growth in China’s 29 Provinces: A Paradigm of Multi-Regional Analysis Based on EAALMDI Method

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Controlling energy consumption to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has become a global consensus in response to the challenge of climate change. Most studies have focused on energy consumption control in a single region; however, high-resolution analysis of energy consumption and personalized energy policy-making, for multiple regions with differentiated development, have become a complicated challenge. Using the logarithmic mean Divisia index I (LMDI) decomposition method based on energy allocation analysis (EAA), this paper aims to establish a standard paradigm for a high-resolution analysis of multi-regional energy consumption and provide suggestions for energy policy-making, taking 29 provinces of China as the sample. The process involved three steps: (1) determination of regional priorities of energy consumption control by EAA, (2) revealing regional disparity among the driving forces of energy consumption growth by LMDI, and (3) deriving policy implications by comparing the obtained results with existing policies. The results indicated that 29 provinces can be divided into four groups, with different priorities of energy consumption control according to the patterns of coal flows. Most provinces have increasing levels of energy consumption, driven by increasing per capita GDP and improving living standards, while its growth is restrained by decreasing end-use energy intensity, improving energy supply efficiency, and optimization of industrial structures. However, some provinces are not following these trends to the same degree. This indicates that policy-makers must pay more attention to the different driving mechanisms of energy consumption growth among provinces.

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Embodied energy in service industry in global cities: A study of six Asian cities

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Exploring the Classification and Restructuring of Chemical Industrial Cities in China: The Perspectives of Sectoral and Spatial Differences

Exploring the Classification and Restructuring of Chemical Industrial Cities in China: The Perspectives of Sectoral and Spatial Differences

Embodied Energy in Export Flows Along Global Value Chain: A Case Study of China’s Export Trade

How to Effectively Control Energy Consumption Growth in China’s 29 Provinces: A Paradigm of Multi-Regional Analysis Based on EAALMDI Method

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