Energy intensity and foreign direct investment: A Chinese city-level study

Elliott, Robert J.R.; Sun, Pingchuan; Chen, Siyang

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2013.08.004

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“…Basically, when GPP goes up, more energy is consumed. The composition effect refers to sector structure (Elliott, Sun, & Chen, 2013). 1 Typically, a developing country experiences a shift from agriculture to industry and finally to services.…”

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“…According to Antweiler, Copeland, and Taylor (2001) and Herrerias et al (2013), the industrial sector is known to be energy intensive while the energy intensity of the service sector is relatively low. The composition effect tends to lead to a rise in energy intensity followed by a decline when income grows and the economy shifts towards the service sector (Stern, 2004;Elliott et al, 2013. This development is strengthened by the technique effect in that richer countries can afford a technology shift toward more energy efficient techniques.…”

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The drivers of energy intensity in China: A spatial panel data approach

Jiang

Folmer

2014

China Economic Review

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The drivers of energy intensity in China: A spatial panel data approach

Jiang

Folmer

2014

China Economic Review

123

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“…Some cities (such as resource-based cities and old industrial cities in Environmental Management (2016) 57:498-507 505 this study) not only had larger quantities of pollutant discharge, but also had from 20 to 40 % greater intensity of pollutant discharge per unit of economic output compared to the other cities, indicating that environmental impacts did not necessarily decrease with increasing urbanization. Economic growth through high energy and resource consumption, followed by the implementation of environmental protection to reduce environmental pollution, does not lead to sustainable growth (He and Wang 2012;Elliott et al 2013). …”

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Environmental Impacts of China’s Urbanization from 2000 to 2010 and Management Implications

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Crittenden

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Environmental Management

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Rapid urbanization in China during the first decade of the twenty first century has brought about profound environmental changes at citywide and regional scales. In this paper, we present a comprehensive set of indicators and put forward a new evaluation method for measuring environmental impacts of urbanization from 2000 to 2010. We compared these impacts among 286 cities in mainland China and found that the overall quantity of pollutant discharge decreased as cities became more economically developed during the years 2000-2010. However, larger and denser cities, and wealthier cities in the eastern part of China tended to have larger quantities of pollutant discharge, resource consumption, and changes in land use (i.e., expansion of the built environment). The discharge increase occurred despite these cities having increased their investment in pollution control and construction of municipal environmental infrastructure. The negative impact from the intensity of pollutant discharge (i.e., discharge per unit of economic output) was generally less in more developed cities, although this was not always the case. Some cities, such as resource-based cities and old industrial cities, had both larger quantities of pollutant discharge and greater pollution intensity compared to other types of cities, indicating that environmental impacts did not necessarily decrease with increasing urbanization. The results of this study provide a promising basis for decisionmaking to reduce the impacts for different types of cities in the decades to come.

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“…Some scholars, such as Elliott et al [26], have analyzed economic issues at the city level. However, the manner and type of data collection for coal consumption differ among cities.…”

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Dynamic Factor Analysis of Trends in Temporal–Spatial Patterns of China’s Coal Consumption

Sun

Chen

et al. 2015

Sustainability

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This paper analyzes coal consumption in the 31 provinces and regions of China from 1995 to 2012. Using spatial analysis in Arc geographical information systems (ArcGIS) and the concept of the center of gravity in physics, we explore the regional differences in temporal-spatial coal consumption and the factors influencing them. The results show that China's coal consumption increased yearly, especially after 2003. It exhibits a marked spatial clustering phenomenon; consumption in the south and east exceeded that in the north and west respectively. Moreover, the center of gravity of consumption gradually moved toward the southwest, indicating reducing gaps in coal consumption between the north-south and the east-west regions. Both the level of economic development and coal consumption are positively related with regional coal production. Promoting urbanization and increasing the proportion of the tertiary industry can effectively reduce coal consumption and help readjust coal consumption patterns to sustainable levels.

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Energy intensity and foreign direct investment: A Chinese city-level study

Cited by 170 publications

References 32 publications

The drivers of energy intensity in China: A spatial panel data approach

The drivers of energy intensity in China: A spatial panel data approach

Environmental Impacts of China’s Urbanization from 2000 to 2010 and Management Implications

Dynamic Factor Analysis of Trends in Temporal–Spatial Patterns of China’s Coal Consumption

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