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Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Ruizhi Pang

    1. College of Economic and Social Development, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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  2. Xuejie Bai

    1. College of Economic and Social Development, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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  3. Knox Lovell

    1. School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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  • Emphasizes energy use and its environmental impacts in China, which have global implications
  • Features expert overviews followed by focused individual studies
  • The topics studied and techniques utilized are relevant for all countries
  • Helps readers better understand the developmental trend of efficiency and productivity research in China

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  3. Studies in Energy and Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Revisiting Reasons for Ten Years of Power Shortages in China

      • Hui-Xian Wang, Hong-Zhou Li, Tao Zou, Yuki Tamai
      Pages 111-138

    3. Allocation Schemes and Efficiencies of China’s Carbon and Sulfur Emissions

      • Zhongqi Deng, Ruizhi Pang, Yu Fan
      Pages 139-160

    4. Carbon Productivity and Carbon Shadow Price in China’s Power Industry: An Endogenous Directional Distance Function Approach

      • Yujiao Xian, Ke Wang
      Pages 161-176

    5. The Context-Dependent Total-Factor Energy Efficiency of China’s Regions

      • Jin-Li Hu, Tzu-Pu Chang
      Pages 177-187

    6. Was Economic Growth in China Environmentally Friendly? A Case Study of the Chinese Manufacturing Sector

      • Sung Ko Li, Xinju He
      Pages 189-207

    7. Environmental and Energy Efficiencies Using the Stochastic Frontier  Cost  Function  Type

      • Sangmok Kang
      Pages 209-221

    8. Evaluating Performance of New Energy—Evidence from OECD

      • Ching-cheng Lu, Jin-chi Hsieh, Yung-ho Chiu, Zhen-sheng Lin
      Pages 223-244
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About this book

This book discusses energy use and its environmental footprint in China, as well as issues concerning the transitional green growth of its economy, a subject of great importance in light of China’s size and its impressive record of economic growth. The book includes expert overviews and empirical studies prepared by internationally recognized experts in the field. The empirical techniques utilized by the contributors include econometrics, mathematical programming, and index numbers. The book will provide readers a deeper understanding of the energy and environmental issues China now faces during its transitional growth period, and of the strategies available for resolving these issues. 


The 2016 Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference, held in Nankai University, Tianjin China from July 7-10, was organized by Nankai University’s College of Economic and Social Development (CESD) in collaboration with the School of Economics Nankai University and Collaborative Innovation Center for China Economy. The primary objective of the event was to highlight the latest developments in efficiency and productivity research.




Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Economic and Social Development, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

    Ruizhi Pang, Xuejie Bai

  • School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Knox Lovell

About the editors

Ruizhi Pang (PhD in Economics, 2002, Nankai University; Professor of Institute of Industrial Economics at Nankai University). Dr. Pang’s fields of research are Industrial Organization, Performance Evaluation and Industrial Development. In the past 10 years, she has published more than 40 academic papers and 5 monographs, some influential papers has been reprinted by Xinhua Digest (TOP 1 journal in social science in China). Dr. Pang has chaired 7 research projects from Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education Fund etc. She has also finished more than 20 research reports which sponsored by national government agencies and provincial government institutions. She also serves as anonymous reviewer of well-known academic journals, such as Empirical Economics, Economic Research etc.


Dr. Xuejie Bai, professor in economics at Nankai University, is the vice dean of College of Economic and Social Development at Nankai University, and a member ofChina Society of Industrial Economics. 
Dr Bai Xuejie has engaged in the teaching and research of industrial economics for more than 20 years, whose fields of research are industrial development and industrial policy, productivity and efficiency, and Japanese economy and Japanese industrial development. In recent years, she has published 5 monographs and several influential papers in industrial economics and industrial development. She has also presided more than 20 research projects in the areas of industrial planning, regional industry analysis, and industrial development strategy, which were sponsored by government agencies at central level and provincial levels.


Knox Lovell is Honorary Professor with the Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and he has co-authored several books, includingProduction Frontiers (with Färe&Grosskopf), Stochastic Frontier Analysis (with Kumbhakar), and Productivity Accounting (with Grifell-Tatje), all for Cambridge University Press. He also hosts The Jazz Show on radio station 4zzz, 102.1 Fm, in Brisbane, Australia.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China

  • Editors: Ruizhi Pang, Xuejie Bai, Knox Lovell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7919-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7918-4Published: 28 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7919-1Published: 27 April 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 323

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economic Growth, Econometrics, Asian Economics

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