Powered by the state or finance? The organization of China’s carbon markets
Carbon ; Carbon market ; China ; Energy ; Financing ; Greenhouse effect ; Legislation ; Market ; Non-governmental organization ; Role of the State
Carbono ; China ; Efecto invernadero ; Energía ; Financiamiento ; Legislación ; Mercado ; Organización no gubernamental ; Rol del Estado
This paper reviews the progress of carbon trading in China and examines the involvement of the state and financial sectors. The results show a hierarchical relationship between the state and finance and a clear asymmetry of power in the organization
of China’s carbon markets. It concludes that China has put the market-based policy instrument of carbon trading under a substantial concentration of state power. Also, the findings have important implications for understanding the rise of carbon markets
From rural transformation to global integration : comparative analyses of the environmental dimensions of China’s rise
China ; Climatic change ; Ecological modernization ; Ecology ; Economic development ; Economic growth ; Economic policy ; Environmental crisis ; Modernization ; Political ecology
Cambio climático ; China ; Crecimiento económico ; Desarrollo económico ; Ecología ; Ecología política ; Modernización ; Política económica
degradation in China. He argues that the former two approaches limit understanding of (and available solutions to) China’s environmental problems, often framed in environmental crisis narratives. He demonstrates how the third framework (Critical Political
Ecology) offers an alternative analysis of the fundamental environmental issues accompanying China’s rise, yielding quite different insights informing policy and practice.
The decreasing spring frost risks during the flowering period for woody plants in temperate area of eastern China over past 50 years
Bioclimatology ; China ; Climatic change ; Climatic hazard ; Climatic trend ; Frost ; North-Eastern China ; Northern China ; Phenology ; Spring (season) ; Temperate zone
Bioclimatología ; Cambio climático ; China ; China del Norte ; Fenología ; Helada ; Primavera ; Riesgo climático ; Tendencia del clima ; Zona templada
of frost occurrence were analyzed. Through these analyses, frost risk during the flowering period at each site was estimated. Results suggested that first flowering dates (FFD) in the study area advanced significantly from 1963 to 2009 in North China. Over
to frost during the flowering period in spring, exhibited a decreasing trend in Northeast China and in North China, implying that frost risk has reduced over the past half century.
Carbon emissions trends with optimal balanced economic growth of China and the USA and some abatement options for China
Carbon dioxide ; China ; Climatic change ; Climatic trend ; Comparative study ; Decision making process ; Economic growth ; Energy ; Energy policy ; Model ; United States of America
Cambio climático ; China ; Crecimiento económico ; Dióxido de carbono ; Energía ; Estados Unidos ; Estrategia de actores ; Estudio comparativo ; Modelo ; Política energética ; Tendencia del clima
This paper presented an approach to project the future CO2 emissions from the perspective of optimal economic growth, and applied this model to the cases of China and the United States, whose CO2 emissions together contributed to more than 40
% of the global emissions. The projection results under the balanced and optimal economic growth path reveal that the CO2 emissions will peak in 2029 for China and 2024 for the USA owing to their empirically implied pace of energy efficiency improvement. Moreover
, some abatement options are analyzed for China, which indicate that 1) putting up the energy price will decrease the emissions at a high cost; 2) enhancing the decline rate of energy intensity can significantly mitigate the emissions with a modest cost
2013
[b2] Key Lab. of Geographical Information Science, East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, Chine
The right to the city and critical reflections on China's property rights activism
Activism ; China ; Guangdong ; Guangzhou ; Labour migration ; Property right ; Right to the city ; Social geography ; Urban development ; Urban policy
Activismo ; China ; Derecho de propiedad ; Desarrollo urbano ; Geografía social ; Guangdong ; Guangzhou ; Migración de trabajo ; Política urbana
This paper refers to the perspective of the “right to the city” to examine whose rights count in China's urban development contexts and proposes a cross-class alliance that engages both migrants and local citizens. The alliance itself will have
substantial political implications, overcoming the limited level of rights awareness that mainly rests on distributional justice in China. The discussions are supported by an analysis of empirical data from the author's field research in Guangzhou, which
‘Refugee’ or ‘returnee’? The ethnic geopolitics of diasporic resettlement in China and intergenerational change
China ; Community ; Diaspora ; Ethnicity ; Farm ; Internal migration ; Migration ; Political geography ; Refugees ; Return migration ; Settlement
China ; Comunidad ; Diáspora ; Etnicidad ; Explotación agrícola ; Geografía política ; Migración ; Migración de retorno ; Migración interior ; Poblamiento ; Refugiados
By using the case of China’s resettlement policy towards diasporic Chinese descendants expelled from Southeast Asia during 1949–1979 and examining their contemporary situation, this paper highlights the way scholarship on forced migration
and ethnically privileged (return) migration can mutually enrich one another. The paper, first, examines the ge-opolitical context of Chinese forced migration and the premises of China’s preferential policy towards co-ethnics, which labelled the ‘refugees
This article has two objectives: it presents and explains those geographic variables with an important role in international relations theo-ries, and it draws out the implications of these general formulations for the specific case of China
. It explains that the factors discussed in this essay tend to influence foreign policy conduct regardless of which politicians are in charge of a government. This essay has taken the opposite tack, seeking to set China in the broader context of empirical
Spatial impacts of high-speed railways in China : a total-travel-time approach
Accessibility ; Beijing ; China ; Economic efficiency ; Form of transport ; High speed train ; Northern China ; Origin-destination ; Southern China ; Spatial analysis ; Tianjin ; Transport
Accesibilidad ; Análisis espacial ; Beijing ; China ; China del Norte ; China del Sur ; Eficacia económica ; Modo de transporte ; Origen-destino ; Tientsin ; Transporte ; Tren de alta velocidad
The spatial dimension of negotiated power relations and social justice in the redevelopment of villages-in-the-city in China
China ; Participation ; Power ; Project ; Right to the city ; Social geography ; Social justice ; Urban development ; Urban policy ; Urban renewal ; Village
China ; Desarrollo urbano ; Geografía social ; Justicia social ; Participación ; Poder ; Política urbana ; Proyecto ; Pueblo ; Renovación urbana
connections which different actors draw from space, be it place or shifting positions. In the context of China’s villages-in-the-city redevelopment, this idea suggests that the dispossessed are not entirely powerless, although their formal rights
Underlying motivation for land use change : a case study on the variation of agricultural factor productivity in Xinjiang, China
Agricultural land use ; Cereal ; China ; Cotton ; Land use ; Manpower ; Productivity ; Xinjiang
Algodón ; Aprovechamiento agrícola del suelo ; Aprovechamiento del suelo ; Cereal ; China ; Mano de obra ; Productividad ; Sinkiang
This paper examines the variation of land productivity, capital productivity and labor productivity in agricultural land use in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. It reveals that only labor productivity presents a long-term increasing trend
Agrupación empresarial ; China ; Competencia ; Confección ; Empresa ; Estrategia de empresa ; Geografía económica ; Mundialización ; Regionalización ; Zhejiang
apparel clusters in China. Through an analysis of several case studies, we show the articulation of global, regional, and local factors that are co-shaping apparel firm relocation processes. We also show that the extent to which these factors affect
Residential satisfaction in China’s informal settlements. A case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou
Beijing ; China ; Guangzhou ; Household ; Housing ; Informality ; Neighbourhood ; Satisfaction ; Sense of belonging ; Settlement ; Shanghai ; Town
Barrio ; Beijing ; China ; Ciudad ; Guangzhou ; Poblamiento ; Satisfacción ; Sentimiento de pertenencia ; Unidad familiar ; Vivienda
This article analyses residential satisfaction in China’s informal settlements through the examples of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. It demonstrates that migrants and low-income groups are not less satisfied than nonmigrants or middle-range
Input–output efficiency of urban agglomerations in China : an application of data envelopment analysis (DEA)
China ; Data ; Economic efficiency ; Growth pole ; Urban agglomeration ; Urban economy ; Urban population
Aglomeración urbana ; China ; Dato ; Economía urbana ; Eficacia económica ; Población urbana ; Polo de crecimiento
This paper investigates the data envelopment efficiency of urban agglomerations in China with different population sizes and geographical locations. It first explores the relationship between the elements that make up a decomposed model
of efficiency and compares the efficiency performance of China’s UAs with that of 35 central cities. Moreover, the exogenous factors determining the input–output efficiency of UAs, the question of how to improve UAs’ efficiency performance, as well as the focus
2013
[b2] National Academy for Mayors of China, Beijing, Chine
Pareto’s law and sample size : a case study of China’s urban system 1984–2008
China ; City size ; Methodology ; Population size ; Rank-size distribution ; Sampling ; Threshold ; Town ; Urban population ; Urban system
China ; Ciudad ; Distribución rango-tamaño ; Metodología ; Población urbana ; Selección dela muestra ; Sistema urbano ; Tamaño de las ciudades ; Umbral
This study tests three existing threshold methods (number threshold, size threshold, and urban pop-ulation percentage threshold) using China’s city system as a case study. In addition, it proposes a new method based upon the percentage threshold
with China’s city system, the Pareto exponent presents a turning point in 1996, representing China’s transition from a planned economy to a more market oriented economy during that period.
Variation in vegetation greenness in spring across eastern China during 1982–2006
China ; Eastern China ; Precipitation ; Spring (season) ; Temperature ; Vegetation ; Vegetation dynamics ; Vegetation index
China ; China del Este ; Dinámica de la vegetación ; Precipitación ; Primavera ; Temperatura ; Vegetación ; Índice de vegetación
Vegetation greenness is a key indicator of terrestrial vegetation activity. To understand the variation in vegetation activity in spring across eastern China (EC), the AA. analysed the variation in the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI
Variations of temperature and precipitation of snowmelt period and its effect on runoff in the mountainous areas of Northwest China
China ; Climate ; Climatic trend ; Impact ; Meltwater ; Mountain ; North-Western China ; Precipitation ; Runoff ; Snow ; Temperature
Agua de deshielo ; China ; China del Noroeste ; Clima ; Escorrentía ; Impacto ; Montaña ; Nieve ; Precipitación ; Temperatura ; Tendencia del clima
Using daily mean temperature and precipitation from 8 mountainous weather stations over the period 1960–2010 in the arid land of Northwest China, this paper analyzes climate change of snowmelt period and its spatial variations and explores
Rice re-cultivation in southern China : An option for enhanced climate change resilience in rice production
Adaptation ; Agricultural production ; Agroclimatology ; China ; Climatic change ; Drought ; Resilience ; Rice ; Southern China ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial distribution ; Water resources
Adaptación ; Agroclimatología ; Análisis espacial ; Arroz ; Cambio climático ; China ; China del Sur ; Distribución espacial ; Producción agrícola ; Recursos en agua ; Resiliencia ; Sequía
rice producing areas tends to alleviate in general, late season rice in particular. Future climate change brings about a significant impact on the spatial/temporal distribution of water resources in rice producing areas in China. Based on pre-designed
The influence of geology and land use on the geochemical baselines of the East River basin, China
China ; Geochemistry ; Heavy metals ; Human impact ; Land use ; Regional geology ; Sedimentology ; Southern China ; Statistical analysis ; Watershed
Acción antrópica ; Análisis estadístico ; Aprovechamiento del suelo ; China ; China del Sur ; Cuenca hidrográfica ; Geología regional ; Geoquímica ; Metales pesados ; Sedimentología
In this study, the Tukey boxplot approach was adopted to develop geochemical baselines for 42 analyses in the East River basin, South China. Data subset analyses, change ratios and factor analyses were used to explore the anthropogenic effects