Stress of urban energy consumption on air environment |
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Authors: | Gang Yan Li Li and Bin Chen |
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Institution: | (1) State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China;(2) Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, Beijing, 100012, China;(3) School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China |
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Abstract: | With rapid urbanization and heavy industrialization as well as the rapid increase of cars in China, the effect of energy consumption
on urban air environment is increasingly becoming serious, and has become a hot topic for both scholars and decision-makers.
This paper explores the effect mechanism and regulation of urban energy consumption on the air environment, and summarizes
the framework of the stress effect relationship and the evolutionary process. In accordance with the effect relationship of
the internal factors between the two, analytic approaches studying the stress effect of urban energy consumption on air environment
are proposed, including the analysis of air environment effects caused by urban energy consumption structure change, and the
analysis of air environment effects caused by urban energy economic efficiency change, as well as a decomposition analysis
of air pollutant emission caused by urban energy consumption. Applying the above-mentioned approaches into a case study on
Beijing City, this paper analyzes the effect relationship among urban energy consumption structure improvement, energy economic
efficiency increase and air quality change since the period when Beijing City officially proposed to bid for the 2008 Olympic
Games in 1998. In addition, it further analyzes the effect and contribution of urban industrial activity level, industrial
economic structure, industrial energy intensity, and industrial energy structure as well as emission coefficients on the change
in industrial SO2 emission, which can provide valuable information to the government for making comprehensive environmental policies, with
the use of the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method. It is shown that under the precondition that the industrial economy
maintain a continuous and rapid increase, improvements in energy intensity and a decline in emission coefficients are the
main means for reducing Beijing’s industrial SO2 emissions. |
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Keywords: | urban energy consumption air environment stress effect decomposition analysis |
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