Embodied energy use in China's infrastructure investment from 1992 to 2007: calculation and policy implications.
Infrastructure has become an important topic in a variety of areas of the policy debate, including energy saving and climate change. In this paper, we use an energy input-output model to evaluate the amounts of China's embodied energy use in infrastructure investment from 1992 to 2007. We also use the structure decomposition model to analyze the factors impacting the embodied energy use in infrastructure investment for the same time period. The results show that embodied energy use in infrastructure investment accounted for a significant proportion of China's total energy use with an increasing trend and reflect that improper infrastructure investment represents inefficient use of energy and other resources. Some quantitative information is provided for further determining the low carbon development potentials of China's economy.
School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.
Hongtao
H
Liu
Youmin
Y
Xi
Bingqun
B
Ren
Heng
H
Zhou
D000465:Algorithms; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis; D002681:China; D003246:Conservation of Energy Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D018803:Models, Economic; D011640:Public Policy; D013997:Time Factors; D014507:Urbanization / Q000639:trends
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