The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend

doi:10.3390/su8030222

	The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend
	Pang, Jiaxing 1,2; Zhang, Zilong 1,2; Xue, Bing 3,4; Chen, Xingpeng 1,2
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2016-03-01
卷号	8 期号:3
关键词	Spatial Pattern Economic Growth Environmental Pressure Temporal Trend Decoupling
ISSN号	2071-1050
DOI	10.3390/su8030222
英文摘要	Unprecedented economic achievement in China has occurred along with rising resource consumption and waste productions levels. The goal of sustainability requires the decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption (resource decoupling) and environmental degradation (impact decoupling). For this paper, the performances of resource decoupling (energy and water) and impact decoupling (wastewater, SO2 and CO2) in China were evaluated, and the spatial pattern and temporal trend of decoupling performance were investigated by using the rescaled range analysis (R/S). The results indicate the following. (1) The performance of resource decoupling during the investigated period is worse than that of traditional impact (SO2 and wastewater) decoupling, but better than that of the CO2 emission. Additionally, the decoupling performances of energy consumption and related pollutant emission (except CO2) are better than that of water usage and wastewater discharge; (2) The decoupling performance of energy consumption, SO2 and CO2, has substantially improved from the 10th Five-Year Planning Period (FYP) (2001-2005) to the 11th FYP (2006-2010), which indicates that the decoupling performance is highly related the environmental policy; (3) The spatial disparities of the performance of resource and impact decoupling are declining, which indicates the existence of cross-province convergence in decoupling performance; (4) The decoupling performance of SO2 and water usage in most of regions shows an improving trend. Inversely, the decoupling performance of energy consumption, CO2 emission, and wastewater discharge in most regions show a decreasing trend; (5) China needs more stringent water-saving targets and wastewater discharge standards; better policy efforts to improve the water recycling level both in agricultural, industrial and municipal level are required to prevent the decreasing trend of the decoupling performance.
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI AG
WOS记录号	WOS:000373800600085
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://210.72.129.5/handle/321005/122594]
专题	中国科学院沈阳应用生态研究所
通讯作者	Zhang, Zilong
作者单位	1.Lanzhou Univ, Coll Earth & Environm Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Western Chinas Environm Syst, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China 2.Lanzhou Univ, Inst Circular Econ Western China, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China 3.Inst Adv Sustainabil Studies, D-14467 Potsdam, Germany 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, Key Lab Pollut Ecol & Environm Engn, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pang, Jiaxing,Zhang, Zilong,Xue, Bing,et al. The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2016,8(3).
APA	Pang, Jiaxing,Zhang, Zilong,Xue, Bing,&Chen, Xingpeng.(2016).The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend.SUSTAINABILITY,8(3).
MLA	Pang, Jiaxing,et al."The Decoupling of Resource Consumption and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth in China: Spatial Pattern and Temporal Trend".SUSTAINABILITY 8.3(2016).