The socioeconomic drivers of China's primary PM2.5 emissions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Guan, Dabo ^a,b   Su, Xin ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Peters, Glen P ^c   Liu, Zhu ^d   Lei, Yu ^e   He, Kebin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHINESE ACADEMY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING   (China)

Author keywords

capital investment; China; emission drivers; export; inputoutput analysis; pollution; structural decomposition analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INVESTMENTS; POLLUTION;

CAPITAL INVESTMENT; CHINA; EXPORT; INPUT OUTPUT ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS;

INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

CHINA; GERMANY;

EID: 84896897671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/2/024010     Document Type: Article

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