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Input Output Analysis Foundations And Extensions

Indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment.

Sustainability assessment is being increasingly viewed as an important tool to aid in the shift towards sustainability. However, this is a new and evolving concept and there remain very few examples of effective sustainability assessment processes implemented anywhere in the world. Sustainability assessment is often described as a process by which the implications of an initiative on sustainability are evaluated, where the initiative can be a proposed or existing policy, plan, programme, project, piece of legislation, or a current practice or activity. However, this generic definition covers a broad range of different processes, many of which have been described in the literature as 'sustainability assessment'. This article seeks to provide some clarification by reflecting on the different approaches described in the literature as being forms of sustainability assessment, and evaluating them in terms of their potential contributions to sustainability. Many of these are actually examples of 'integrated assessment', derived from environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA), but which have been extended to incorporate social and economic considerations as well as environmental ones, reflecting a 'triple bottom line' (TBL) approach to sustainability. These integrated assessment processes typically either seek to minimise 'unsustainability', or to achieve TBL objectives. Both aims may, or may not, result in sustainable practice. We present an alternative conception of sustainability assessment, with the more ambitious aim of seeking to determine whether or not an initiative is actually sustainable. We term such processes 'assessment for sustainability'. 'Assessment for sustainability' firstly requires that the concept of sustainability be well-defined. The article compares TBL approaches and principles-based approaches to developing such sustainability criteria, concluding that the latter are more appropriate, since they avoid many of the inherent limitations of the triple-bottom-line as a conception of sustainability.

Conceptualising sustainability assessment

Annual Energy Outlook 2008 With Projections to 2030

Several simplified design procedures for solar energy systems require monthly average meteorological data. Monthly average daily totals of the solar radiation incident on a horizontal surface are available. However, radiation data on tilted surfaces, required by the design procedures, are generally not available. A simple method of estimating the average daily radiation for each calendar month on surfaces facing directly towards the equator has been presented by Liu and Jordan [1]. This method is verified with experimental measurements and extended to allow calculation of monthly average radiation on surfaces of a wide range of orientations.

Calculation of monthly average insolation on tilted surfaces

Rapid urbanization in China has led to resource depletion, environmental pollution, and social inequity. The cornerstone of China’s high-quality economic development is inclusive green development, which has developed as the society’s primary objective. Based on the panel data of 16 prefecture-level cities in Anhui Province from 2011 to 2020, the study explores the connotation of urban inclusive green development efficiency (IGDE) and evaluates IGDE using the hierarchical entropy weight TOPSIS model combined with the global-Super-SBM model. The current situation and problems of IGDE in Anhui Province are thoroughly analyzed, then the Global-Malmquist index is used to analyze the structural dynamics of efficiency dynamics, the Theil index to explore the sources of regional differences in efficiency and the efficiency slackness index to discover the causes of low-efficiency losses. The results indicate that, technological progress is the key factor affecting IGDE. Intra-regional variation is the primary source of regional variation in IGDE. The inadequacy of infrastructure, medical level, educational equity, and green status are the four decisive aspects that cause the low efficiency of IGDE for the whole, but the weaknesses of IGDE are specifically from city to city. According to the above, the practical promotion path of IGDE in Anhui province has been obtained.

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Research on the Dynamic Evolution
and Improvement Path of Inclusive Green
Development Efficiency in China:
a Perspective of Urban

Low-carbon eco-city development is one of the key approaches taken by the Chinese government to achieve its international commitment of reducing carbon intensity by 40% to 45% by 2020, as well as other national targets. Cities have planned and implemented various measures to fulfill these goals; however, most of the plans lacked explicit targets, metrics, and implementation mechanisms, and strategies undertaken are often too vague and piecemeal, therefore hindering their effectiveness. To fill these gaps and significantly accelerate the speed of developing low-carbon and eco-city plans, and to facilitate selection and implementation of sound policy apparatus at a large scale, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed multiple tools based on both international and Chinese best practices. This paper introduces the application of two of the tools in Jinan, China. The Benchmarking and Energy Saving Tool for Low Carbon Cities (BEST Cities) focuses on energy savings and carbon emissions reduction potential and strategies. The Eco and Low-carbon Indicator Tool for Evaluating Cities (ELITE Cities) has a broader scope that includes air, water, and land use. These tools help cities benchmark and evaluate performance, track progress, and provide practical and scientific prescriptions. This paper sheds light on understanding where a city falls on the path to sustainability, quantifies the city’s sectoral energy- and carbon-saving potentials, and reveals challenges and barriers a city may have in implementing the tools and policies. The prioritized policy recommendations made are based on the carbon savings impact, the city’s capacity to act, and the government’s program costs.

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Is Your City Really Sustainable? A Tale of Jinan City Using Quantitative Low- Carbon Eco-city Tools

Coal cities are the impetus and guarantee of China’s economic development. However, the longterm unreasonable exploitation of coal seriously affects the quality of eco-environment and residents' lives in coal cities. This study takes five coal cities in Anhui Province as the research objects, selects ten evaluation indicators of three dimensions based on the production-life-ecology (PLE) model, and improves the evaluation model of relative resource carrying capacity (RRCC). The relative carrying capacity (RCC) of various resources and the relative resource comprehensive carrying capacity (RRCCC) in coal cities from 2010 to 2019 are calculated by entropy-catastrophe progression method to explore the spatio-temporal dynamic evolution of RRCCC in each city, and the critical resistance factors are identified by resistance model. The results show that: (1) There is a particular gap between the RCC of various resources and the existing population resources. (2) RRCCC, with a good development trend in general, is at a relatively strong load level, tending to a strong load level. (3) The level of RRCCC in each city is unevenly distributed, with regional differences. (4) The ecological subsystem had the most significant impact on RRCCC before, and it will be replaced by the production subsystem in the future.

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Analysis on Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Evolution
of Relative Resource Carrying Capacity
of Coal Cities Based on PLE-EM-CPM Model


 Considering the regional economic and social characteristics and high-quality development goals, this paper improves the calculation method of green efficiency of water resources and adopts the SBM-DEA model to calculate the green efficiency of water resources in 35 cities of 4 provinces in the Huaihe River Basin. The results show that (1) the green efficiency of water resources in the Huaihe River Basin decreased first and then increased from 2011 to 2020. (2) In terms of spatial distribution, the provincial-level divisions of green efficiency of water resources in the Huaihe River Basin from high to low are Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui. The elliptical area of green efficiency of water resources keeps expanding, and the efficiency value radiates outward along ‘Yangzhou-Zhengzhou’. (3) At the level of total-factor productivity decomposition, TC (technological change) has a more noticeable impact on factors than EC (efficiency change). TC scale technology changes mainly come from the improvement of MATC (magnitude technical change). (4) Industrial output value has a positive driving effect on the green efficiency of water resources. Government participation, resource endowment, and economic growth rate reflect China's current incongruity between economic development and water resources green efficiency improvement.

Gang He

Papers

Research on the Dynamic Evolution and Improvement Path of Inclusive Green Development Efficiency in China: a Perspective of Urban

Is Your City Really Sustainable? A Tale of Jinan City Using Quantitative Low- Carbon Eco-city Tools

Analysis on Spatio-Temporal Dynamic Evolution of Relative Resource Carrying Capacity of Coal Cities Based on PLE-EM-CPM Model

Spatial-temporal differentiation and driving factors of water resources green efficiency in the Huaihe River Basin

Assessment of spatial–temporal differences of industrial eco-efficiency in the huaihe river economic belt