The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions

This research tests the casual link from political ideology to national greenhouse gas emissions by utilizing multinational panel data covering 98 countries during the period 1990–2016. Overall, the baseline results and robustness tests show a political divide on national greenhouse gas emissions, whereby compared to right-wing governments, left-wing governments are more likely to exhibit less carbon dioxide emissions. We further explore this topic from the perspectives of energy efficiency and education. Three-stage OLS regressions suggest that leftist parties increase energy efficiency and spend more on secondary education, which lead to less greenhouse gas emissions. We also introduce the interaction between political ideology and economic performance as well as globalization to test the moderating effects of economic performance and globalization. The study further looks into the interaction effects of political ideology and democracies on greenhouse gas emissions by dividing the whole sample into two sub-samples. The results indicate that the ideology effect on greenhouse gas emissions varies among countries with different economic performances or different degrees of political globalization, as well as between democracies and non-democracies.     

Environmental regulation and innovation: Evidence from China

The relevance of analyzing effects of environmental regulation on innovation cannot be overemphasized. In this paper, we first develop a theoretical model to predict how command-and-control environmental regulation affects innovation, and then we derive its channels. Using the difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy and a comprehensive dataset at city-industry-year level of manufacturing sectors in China, we found that the more stringent environmental regulations that are faced by cities, measured by the reduction targets of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and sulfur dioxide (SO₂) during the eleventh Five-Year Plan, are negatively associated with innovation. Thus, the evidence contradicts the Porter Hypothesis. On average, a one standard deviation increase in the reduction targets of COD (SO₂) is associated with a 0.023 (0.016) standard deviation decrease in the innovation index. We controlled carefully for various potential confounders, and the results were supported by robustness and falsification checks. There exists an evident heterogeneity effect across regions and industries with different pollution intensities. The channel analysis shows that stricter environmental regulation also accounts for a sharp decline in labor demand, firm entry, and inbound foreign direct investment. Our findings are also robust to alternative measures for innovation and environmental regulation.     

山西地区非弹性衰减系数、场地响应和震源参数的初步研究

利用山西数字测震台网“十五”数字化之后34次 ML2.5～ML5.2级地震波形资料,采用Atkinson方法反演出非弹性衰减Q值随频率f的关系为Q( f)=469.5df0.3141;采用Moya方法反演得出41个台站的场地响应,结果显示出仪器安置在山洞且地处外界干扰小的台站没有明显的放大效应,而其它台站尽管都是基岩台...     

A biogeochemical orientation survey in the Moisan gold-mineralized area, Haenam district in Korea

A biogeochemical orientation survey was carried out in the vicinity of an epithermal Au deposit in the Moisan Au–Ag mineralized area, Haenam district in Korea. The Au–Ag bearing quartz veins of the mine occur as narrow open-space fillings within Cretaceous silicic pyroclastics. The vein minerals consist mainly of quartz, sericite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, and galena, with some electrum and argentite. The main objectives of this study were to study the geochemical characteristics of rocks, soils and plants in this area, to investigate the spatial relationship between Au and associated elements in rock–soil–plant system, and to evaluate the applicability of biogeochemical prospecting for Au vein occurrences in Korea. Samples of rocks and soils, and leaves of three plant species (Japanese red pine — P. densiflora, oriental white oak — Q. aliena, Japanese mallotus — M. japonicus) were collected from the target mineralized area and control barren locations, and analyzed for trace elements by instrumental neutron activation analysis. Sampling lines were composed of one slope line which is almost parallel to the mineralized quartz-veins, and four transect lines spaced 100 m apart across the veins at 20 m sampling intervals. From the multi-element data of rock samples (n = 9), high values of Au (maximum 2030 ppb) are spatially related to Au–quartz veins. Soil samples (n = 61) collected from five sampling lines show higher values of Au (24–825 ppb) whereas soil samples from the control locations have lower values of Au (below 25 ppb). Many plant species collected from the vicinity of the veins have high Au contents compared with those at the control locations, but the ranges of Au values are variable among plant species. In a total of 128 samples of plant leaves, Q. aliena yielded Au values of 0.4 to 6.9 ppb, and M. japonicus 0.9 to 4.1 ppb. Gold contents in P. densiflora ranged from 0.1 to 5.6 ppb. Plant leaves from control areas show less than 1.6 ppb Au. The biological absorption coefficient (BAC) of Au in plants decreases in the order of Q. aliena > M. japonicus > P. densiflora. Based on the results of the study, Q. aliena appeared to be the best sampling media for biogeochemical prospecting of Au in the study area.     

利用数字地震波资料研究宁夏地区介质非弹性衰减和场地响应

利用宁夏及邻区的数字地震波资料,选取2009-05-2010-10月M_L2.6以上的20个台站32次地震事件的268条波形记录,用遗传算法反演了宁夏及邻区介质非弹性衰减系数和台站场地相应.反演得到:宁夏地区介质非弹性衰减Q值与频率的关系为Q(f)=337.67f0.4554.其Q值和山西及浙江地区的结果最相近,可能预...     

Q矢量的改进与完善

在完全考虑非绝热加热项潜热作用的前提下，从原始方程出发，推导出改进后的湿Q矢量(以下记为Q^M)的表达式以及用其散度作强迫项的ω方程，并结合一次梅雨锋暴雨天气过程将改进前、后的湿Q矢量诊断能力进行比较，结果发现：(1)改进后的湿Q矢量对同时刻的地面降水的反映能力较原湿Q矢量(Q^*)有显著的提高。(2)在整个梅雨锋暴雨过程中，600hPa高度上的改进后的湿Q矢量散度辐合场的辐合强度及其辐合中心的位置对同时刻的地面实际降水的强度及雨区位置都有非常好的指示作用。     

辽宁海城-岫岩地区尾波Q值研究

本文利用Sato单次散射模型,研究1999年至2007年辽宁海城-岫岩地区尾波Q值随时间的变化情况及1999年岫岩5.4级地震和2000年5.1级两次中强地震发生阶段该地区的尾波Q值变化。计算结果表明:该区在地震活跃阶段,Qc值随时间变化起伏较大,平均值相对较高,在岫岩5.4级主震前有短时升高现象,之后Qc值并没有明显的降低,直到强余震序列结束之后Qc值逐步降低,趋于平稳,通过对比该区在地震活跃阶段与平静阶段的Qc值变化,可以为未来该区的强震预测提供参考依据。     

中亚热带山区不同土地利用方式土壤呼吸的日动态变化

通过LI-8100土壤碳通量测定仪对中亚热带山区不同土地利用方式土壤呼吸进行测定与分析．结果表明,不同土地利用方式土壤温度变化趋势较为一致,峰值出现在16：00,但坡耕地均出现在14：00;不同土地利用方式土壤呼吸速率昼夜变化趋势大致呈单峰变化,呼吸速率在12：00—16：00之间达到一天的最大值,而在6：00达到最小值,但杉木林与木荷林土壤呼吸速率在夏季呈现出不规则的多峰变化,不同季节呼吸速率最大值出现的时间不同;杉木林与木荷林不同季节的土壤呼吸速率的目变化幅度较小,果园的最大;土壤呼吸速率的均值大小顺序为：经济林〉木荷林〉坡耕地〉杉木林〉果园,但不同土地利用方式间土壤呼吸速率差异不显著（P〉0．05）．不同土地利用方式土壤呼吸Q10值的季节变化中,杉木、木荷2种人工林用地冬季Q10值最大,最小值分别出现在夏季与秋季,而坡耕地、经济林与果园3种土地利用方式以春季的Q10值最大,秋季最小;Q10值随土壤碳质量的降低而增大．     

福建顺昌尾波Q值衰减特征初探

基于Sato单次散射模型,利用2007年3月13日福建数字地震台网记录的发生在福建省北部地区的45条ML≥2．0级地震波形资料,对福建北部地区尾波Q值进行了研究,研究中首先计算各条记录尾波4—18Hz间15个频率的尾波Q值,并对Q值与频率之间的依赖关系进行拟和,拟和结果为：Qc（f）=（150．34±42．51）f^（0.8214±0.2109）。