Economic diversity, development capacity and sustainable development of China

被引：26
作者：
Xu, ZM [1 ]
Cheng, GD
Chen, DJ
Templet, PH
机构：
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, CAREERI, State Key Lab Frozen Soil Engn, Lanzhou 730000, PC, Peoples R China
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Environm Studies, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
来源：
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS | 2002年 / 40卷 / 03期
关键词：
economic diversity; energy consumption; sustainable development; energy tax;
D O I：
10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00005-8
中图分类号：
Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];
学科分类号：
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要：
China's economic growth over the past several decades has been among the highest in the world. It has been fueled by cheap fossil fuel energy so energy consumption has risen rapidly, but there are signs that negative feedbacks in the form of waste and inefficiency may affect future development. If energy throughput exceeds the capacity of the environment to process the inevitable waste from production then the development may not be sustainable. We calculate economic diversity using an energy flow network analysis method to explore the relationships of development policy, energy use, efficiency and sustainable development. China and its provinces are presented as a case study and the development status of each province in China is presented. China's development policy does not appear to be sustainable over the period 1985-1998 because of unsustainable energy consumption trends and declining economic diversity. An energy consumption tax is proposed for increasing diversity and dealing with increasing energy consumption in China. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码：369 / 378
页数：10
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