DOI码：10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124561
发表刊物：Journal of Cleaner Production
摘要：Threats posed by global climate change have heightened the urgency for economies to transition to sustainability. However, quantitative metrics that measure sustainability status remain under development, hampered in part by the difficulty of identifying clear relationships between economic growth and sustainability. The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis provides a framework for describing sustainability status relative to socioeconomic development. In this study, the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis was adopted to investigate statistical relationships between the carbon intensity of human well-being (as an indicator of sustainability) and economic development in eight economic zones of China during 1997–2015. The results provide new evidence that seven of eight Chinese economic zones began advances to sustainability (defined here as downward turning points marked by inverted "N" shapes in the Environmental Kuznets Curve) between 2012 and 2015. The lone exception was the Northwestern economic zone, in which an approach to sustainability had not yet occurred by 2015. This study thus supports the contention that environmental policies and technologies have contributed to improving sustainability in terms of carbon intensity. The results suggest two strategic options for further increasing sustainability in China: 1) "first help the weakest"; and 2) "first help the latest to sustainability".
备注：Lu, C., S. Venevsky, X. Shi, L. Wang, J. S. Wright and C. Wu
论文类型：期刊论文
论文编号：124561
学科门类：经济学
一级学科：应用经济学
卷号：283
期号：1
页面范围：124561
是否译文：否
收录刊物：SCI
发布期刊链接：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124561