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Book Review on Club of Rome report “Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries” by Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockström Published 5 November 2012 by Routledge, 224 pages http://www.clubofrome.org/?p=5366 Challenging “the dilemma of growth”: the key to prosperity without bankrupting nature This book presents a convincing warning to human...

Book Review on Club of Rome report “Bankrupting Nature: Denying Our Planetary Boundaries” by Anders Wijkman and Johan Rockström Published 5 November 2012 by Routledge, 224 pages http://www.clubofrome.org/?p=5366 Fundamental changes required to save our nature from bankruptcy The revised English edition of the book Bankrupting Nature, authored by...

In 2005, the Chinese government set compulsory targets for energy-saving. The national target is a reduction of 20 percent energy consumption per unit of GDP by 2010 based on the level in 2005. The national target is disaggregated into provincial targets which range from 12 - 30 percent of reduction. This policy will have great influences on not...

As in most areas of the world, China’s strong willingness to support the development and deployment of renewable energy can be attributed not only to motivations regarding climate change but to those concerning sustained economic growth, green jobs and energy security. Since the early 1980s the Chinese government has implemented multiple policies...

Composting is a traditional agricultural practice to recycle organic waste. However, due to ongoing rapid urbanization and changing life-styles, organic waste lost its traditional link to the rural agriculture. Instead, organic waste became a serious environmental issue in developing countries. This paper therefore discusses the experiences of two...

The solid waste sector is a significant contributor to methane (CH4) emissions with a global warming potential (GWP) of 21 times more than that of CO2 bringing the need for preventive actions from this sector. In the recent years composting projects both centralized and decentralized have proved to be addressing this issue. However, much of the...

Using China’s environmental statistical data set for the period 2001e2006, this paper presents an extensive empirical analysis of the relationships among citizens’ environmental complaints, pollution intensities, and socio-economic characteristics. We found that exposure to harmful pollutants significantly influence people’s complaint behaviors...

This paper seeks to measure industrial energy saving activities (ESAs) and identify their major determinant factors by an empirical study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taicang city, China. The surveyed SMEs indicate high participation ratios of pre-classified ESAs even with weak regulation and limited support from industrial...

This paper provides an integrative overview of the progress of the GHG emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Japan, China and the Republic of Korea and identifies and analyses the obstacles hindering policy introduction in this region. Japan has practiced experimental and voluntary ETS in recent years, but its intermediate proposal for domestic ETS...

This study seeks to identify major determinant factors for the firms to practice energy saving activities and provides an empirical analysis in Taicang city of China. The identified drivers are partly supported by the econometric analysis. The energy performances of firms in the same sector and internal training significantly determine firm’s...