An Empirical Analysis on the Relationship of China Industry Activities and the SO2 Emissions

Author

Zhao, Xiao-li ; Ouyang, Chao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Bus., North China Electr. Power Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

Firstpage

3915

Lastpage

3918

Abstract

Base on the additive index decomposition method, this paper analyzes the change of industrial SO₂ emission intensity from 18 industrial sectors in China over the period of 1998-2006. The changes of industrial SO₂ emission intensity are decomposed into industrial structural shift, SO₂ production intensity and government control effect. Our results clearly show that as the economic development, the volume of SO₂ emission has a trend of increase but the intensity has a trend of decrease, and the main contribution is the production intensity change. Industrial structural shift and government control effect relevantly occupy little share. Some policy advices were suggested.

Keywords

air pollution; environmental economics; government policies; industrial pollution; sulphur compounds; China industrial sectors; SO₂; additive index decomposition method; economic development; empirical analysis; government control effect; government policy; industrial emission intensity; industrial structural shift; Additives; Air pollution; Business; Environmental economics; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Government; Industrial control; Industrial relations; Power generation economics; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1747-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1748-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2008.480

Filename

4535360