Peter Heck

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a life cycle analysis for wind power sector by using the Chinese inventory standards and found that wind farms only release 1/40 of the total CO2 emissions that would be produced by the coal power system for the same amount of power generation, which is equal to 97.48% of CO2 emission reduction.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper addressed the key water crises in rural China including potable water supply, wastewater treatment and disposal, water for agricultural purposes, and environmental concerns, and then analyzed the administrative system on water resources from the perspective of characteristics of the current administrative system and regulations.

TL;DR: Based on Emergy approach and Rescaled Range analysis, this paper examined the decoupling condition in economic growth and environmental pressure both at specific and aggregate level and track the changing trend and the corresponding socio-economic cost in decoupled process.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the tourism destination ecosystem from perspective of entropy in Dunhuang City and proposed an evaluation index system that considers the potential of sustainable development based on dissipative structure and entropy change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted socio-economic metabolism analysis by means of the emergy accounting method coupled with data envelopment analysis and decomposition analysis techniques to assess the sustainability of Qingyang city and its eight sub-region system, as well as to identify the major driving factors of performance change during 2000-2007, to serve as the basis for future policy scenarios.