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    Yongjun HU, Shuzhong GU
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    Natural resource assets are extremely important and attracting social interest and academic research. This paper attempts to summarize and review progress in research on natural resource assets, starting with the concept of natural resource assets. Data were mainly derived from CNKI’s core journals and national newspapers searched using “natural resources assets” as subject keywords. We found that natural resource asset research focuses on three aspects: natural resources balance sheet, natural resources assets management and exit audits of natural resources assets for leading carders. Emphasis has been on concept discrimination. Main problems identified included research methods that are relatively single, research depth, research relevance, research hierarchy and research system improvements. Overall, interdisciplinary research is lacking. More work is needed looking at property rights, value accounting, change mechanisms of natural resources assets and key natural resources assets. The research field should be extended toward value realization of natural resource assets, business models, policy tool design and application, and big data.

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    Yimin FU, Jinlong LIU, Jiacheng ZHAO
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    Interruption to forest policy analysis and a lack of sufficient attention has meant that forest policy study in China lacks strong theoretical frameworks. Here, a literature review and Delphi approach were adopted to examine the historical process of forest policy analysis research, and understand why China’s forest policy research lags behind western countries. We summarized three important features shared by the forest policy research community: potential complexity, emphasize interdisciplinary thinking and stress issue-oriented study. We introduce six practicable theory frameworks: Policy Stages Model, Multiple Streams Approach, Punctuated Equilibrium Framework, Ambiguity—Conflict Model, Institutional Rational Choice, and Advocacy Coalition Framework. China’s forest policy research community should turn their attention from policy appraisal and comment, both highly affected by official authority, to theory analysis of forest policy processes such as policymaking, implementation and evaluation. Based on China’s development stage we anticipate that focus on historical forest policy change research and academic frontiers can act as two critical entry points for China’s forest policy research community integrated into the international research community. We should keep our eyes open on whether western theory frameworks fit China’s fact as these theories were established using a Western context and may need to be adapted for China. Policy philosophy should keep pace with theory application.

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    Yao LUO, Qun WU
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    Under the background of supply side structural reform, there has been increasing focus on urban inefficient industrial land. This paper is based on the route of connotative definition—efficiency evaluation—cause analysis—disposal research. We summarize the connotation of inefficient urban industrial land and analyze the index system, scale and methods of efficiency evaluation to explore reasons for the formation of inefficient urban industrial land, disposal modes and obstacles. We found that the connotation and basic theory research into urban inefficient industrial land needs to be further studied to clarify the mechanism of production, disposal mechanism and mechanism of interest game among stakeholders. The scientific method of selecting evaluation methods needs to be improved, the contents of the index system should focus on technological innovation, intellectual property rights, environmental protection and sustainable utilization. The disposal modes of inefficient urban industrial land are relatively unitary, and most of them are limited to the government-led disposal mode. Therefore, future research should focus on how to give full play to the decisive role of market mechanisms in the allocation of inefficient industrial land, guide all kinds of subjects to participate in and realize benefit sharing. The supply of top-level institutions for urban inefficient industrial land is far behind local practice. Therefore, the reform experience should be summarized, top-level institutional design should be innovative; we need to integrate the disposal of urban inefficient industrial land and support emerging industry land policy.

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    Congxi CHEN, Yonghuan MA, Nan WANG, Baorong HUANG, Jinhua CHENG
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    Ecological land has multiple functions such as economic, societal and ecological. That the construction of ecological land will be strengthened is an inevitable trend and an objective requirement in the construction of an ecological civilization. It is the only way to optimize the pattern of land and space development and realize the harmonious development between people and nature. The scientific connotation, basic framework, technical path and policy measures regarding the construction of ecological land are discussed systematically using literature analysis, field research and expert consultation. The fundamental purpose of the construction of ecological land is to give full play to the main force of the construction of land and resources, and to put all the strategic decisions of the CPC Central Committee and State Council into all aspects of land and resources. The basic framework is source protection, conservation and renovation repair as the main line. To accelerate the construction of ecological land China should optimize national spatial development patterns, centralize and unify management of natural resource assets, centralize and unify regulation of natural ecology, reform and improve the system of natural resources management, strengthen the construction of basic ecological land, support scientific and technolo-gical innovation, perfect relevant legal systems and policies, and strengthen planning and guidance.

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    Wenxin WANG, Xiaobin JIN, Xiaoyan YANG, Xiaomin XIANG, Jing LIU, Yinkang ZHOU
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    The risk identification and control of major land consolidation projects is important for ensuring their effectiveness. Based on the whole life cycle of land consolidation, we built a social network model on the basis of recognizing the risk of major land consolidation projects and analyzed the relationships and influence of each risk. We found that from the two dimensions of project stage and factor integration, 39 risk factors can be identified according to the risk subject and risk category. Social network analysis showed that risks are closely linked. Maximum bias exists in the lack of communication between government, having the greatest impact on other risks. The highest degree of intermediation is the lack of communication between construction units, having the strongest control with other risks. The highest agent score is the lack of communication between governments, having a dominant position in coordinating the external risks. According to cohesion characteristics and agency characteristics, the lack of communication between construction units is the most influential risk. The control of the top ten key risks in weighting can effectively reduce at least 7. 12% risk value in major land consolidation projects. Improving the multi-party demand expression mechanism, building a multi-dimensional financial security system, strengthening project quality management and fulfilling the evaluation mechanism are feasible methods of controlling risk. It is necessary to strengthen the management of risk in major land consolidation projects.

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    Hui ZHOU, Wei ZHAO, Kaili PENG, Chenlin GAN
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    Post supervision and maintenance for rural land consolidation is of significance to prolong the life circle of building facilities for land consolidation projects, improve the efficiency of land resource utilization, and promote the sustainable development of projects. From the perspective of fairness and efficiency, we explored the interaction between institutional performance with institutional equity, institutional efficiency of supervision and maintenance for rural land consolidation based on 568 rural household surveys in Hubei, China. A structural equation model (SEM) was employed to test the validity of theoretical assumptions. This paper aims to support the perfection of the institution and sustainable development of supervision and maintenance. We found that institutional equity and institutional efficiency affect institutional performance. The correlation coefficient between institutional equity and institutional efficiency is 0. 81. All three hypotheses in this paper are verified. The selecting mode of management subjects, the sufficiency of management personnel, the improvement of farmers’ communication by reason of supervision and maintenance institution are the main-body of institutional performance, institutional fairness and institutional efficiency, respectively. The effect values are 0. 83, 0. 68 and 0. 82. Model results are stable, the influence of institutional fairness on institutional performance is more significant with the effect of free-riding. Based on these findings, the selecting mode of management subjects should be diversified, and standardized management of supervision and maintenance personnel in project areas should be promoted. The platform and operating mechanism for farmers’ participation should be strengthened in order to accelerate their communication.

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    Siqi YAN, Jianchao PENG, Qun WU
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    Examining the convergence characteristics of industrial land use efficiency is of great significance when promoting regional balanced development and increasing industrial land use efficiency in China. Based on the scientific definition of industrial land use efficiency, we measured industrial land use efficiency of various provincial-level administrative divisions in mainland China from 2000-2015 using a stochastic frontier analysis framework. We also conducted β convergence analysis and club convergence analysis using spatial econometric methods, and explored factors affecting improvements in industrial land use efficiency and formation of steady state. Since there is widespread spatial interaction of economic activities, it is more appropriate to conduct convergence analysis using spatial econometric methods than using traditional econometric methods. The results suggest that there is β convergence and σ convergence in industrial land use efficiency, and the convergence speed is 0.143. There is significant regional interaction in the growth of industrial land use efficiency. The level of economic development, level of research and development input and degree of openness has a significant impact on improvements in industrial land use efficiency and formation of steady state. The exploratory spatial data analysis based on Moran scatter plots categorizes various provincial-level administrative divisions into three regional groups: HH group, LL group and LH group. The HH group, LL group and LH group include 5 provincial-level administrative divisions, 15 provincial-level administrative divisions and 4 provincial-level administrative divisions, respectively. There is club convergence in industrial land use efficiency within each of the three regional groups. The convergence speed is 0.289, 0.149 and 0.196, respectively, which is higher than that of mainland China as a whole.

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    Luyi TONG, Shougeng HU
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    This study provided a framework for multi-level urban land expansion characterization through spatiotemporal statistics based on degree-of-freedom, degree-of-sprawl, and degree-of-goodness. This framework was used to estimate and analyze variable characteristics and patterns of urban land expansion from 1990-2015 in 327 counties that are administrated by Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces in central China at different levels. In addition, four different levels (overall, provincial, metropolitan and city) were examined. Results indicated that the variable characteristics of urban land expansion observed in counties administrated by Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangxi provinces at different levels were seriously generated during the period 1995-2015. In addition, varying spatiotemporal urban land expansion was, on one hand, derived by spatially heterogeneous urban land expansion among counties and on the other hand, shaped by variable outcomes of experiments estimating urban land expansion by the proposal framework in each county when characterizing the expansion at different levels. It was noteworthy that these varied sprawl characteristics might provide us with indicators for the status of counties gained among urban land expansion in large-scale regions; and with which, major urban land expansion patterns, mainly including controlled growth, floating growth, disorderly sprawl, and evolving sprawl, were identified in the study. More importantly, counties located in metropolitan and plain areas, compared to those from non-metropolitan and mountainous areas, generally witnessed dominated disorderly sprawl and evolving sprawl. Controlled growth and floating sprawl were dominate patterns in non-metropolitan, mountainous and hilly districts. Initiatives for promoting research on multi-level urban expansion estimation, variable characteristics, patterns and their inherent causative factors are of great importance for multi-level and special urban land expansion management and sustainable urban development strategies.

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    Panpan ZHANG, Ling-en WANG, Junfei BAI, Xiaojie LIU, Shengkui CHENG, Shaopeng FU
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    Food waste has attracted widespread attention around the world for the reason that it is not only a threat to global food security but also a serious loss of global land, water and other natural resources. In fact, food waste also causes serious environmental pollution without proper disposal. With rapid development of tourism consumption in China, food waste during tours is of increasing importance. Food waste is a key part of China’s sustainable food consumption and security. As the result of consumer behavior, factors influencing consumer food waste behavior should be systematically studied. Consumer behaviors, such as lack of shopping planning, impulse buying, and excessive purchasing, cause food waste to varying degrees. In order to explore the food waste behavior of consumers in a tourism context, a food consumption and waste model was constructed. Food waste data were obtained from field survey in the catering industry, and the field research period is from June to August 2015. The research cities include Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Lhasa. A total of 159 catering companies were surveyed, and 2293 samples were included in the study. Based on research and catering industry data for food waste in four tourist cities, we analyzed characteristics of food waste behavior, especially differences in the food waste behavior of tourists and non-tourists. The results suggested that tourists wasted more food than non-tourists according to the per capita waste per meal. Consumers wasted more food when the reason for eating was friends gathering. The personal characteristics of consumers were important factors affecting food waste behavior, such as education level and age, which followed an ‘inverted U’ relationship. The higher the income, the more consumers are prone to food waste. To reduce food waste, more stakeholders should be united together.

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    Chuntao WU, Longjie LI, Xiaohe HE, Jiaoe WANG
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    The linkage development of different provinces in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the construction of ecological corridor policy brings about dramatic changes to the spatial distribution of scenic spots in the whole Yangtze River Economic Belt. Research on the spatial changes of tourism scenic spots in every province and the whole region, plays an important role in distributing tourism infrastructure. This is also important to the planning of the Yangtze River Golden Tourism Zone and rapid development of the tourism economy. This article uses the spatial location of scenic spots in eleven provinces in the Yangtze River Economic Belt to investigate the spatial evolution characteristics of scenic spots. All data are obtained from official websites maintained by national and provincial tourism administrations. Integration of the standard deviation ellipse, average nearest neighbor analysis and kernel density method are used to analyze evolution tendency. We found that the distribution pattern of tourist scenic spots in the Yangtze River Economic Belt is mostly clustered with the Yangtze River river system. The degree of clustering deepens as time goes by across the whole region. Characteristics of phased and integrated development of regional tourism development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, rapid development of tributaries, tourism promotion policy, better accessibility of transport and urban construction are the main reasons explaining the aggolomeration of scenic spots. The construction of urban recreational scenic spots and theme parks provides new impetus for the clustering of urban scenic spots.

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    Jie GAO, Yujie LIU, Zhiming FENG, Tao PAN, Yanzhao YANG, Hao ZHANG
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    Water and land resources are indispensable natural resources, whose carrying capacity for economic and social development is an important measure of the degree of coordination between society, land and regional sustainable development. Research on the surveillance and warning of water-land resources carrying capacity provides technical support for controlling regional resource environmental pressures. Under the case study of Tibet, taking into account resource, environmental and ecological attributes, we select key indicators to build a monitoring and early warning index system of regional water and land resources carrying capacity. The system includes water resources, water environment, productive land and ecological land. Based on international, national and industry standards, regulations and research, the key thresholds for different indicators are determined. We divided three warning levels into high to low as red, orange and yellow. From 2005 to 2014, using analytic hierarchy processes and expert scoring of the index system we found that indicators such as water quality compliance rate, per capita grain yield, per capita arable land area and grassland degradation degree significantly impact the regional water resource carrying capacity. Land resources need to be strengthened. The comprehensive carrying capacity of regional water and land resources has increased. The orange warning interval has down to the blue warning interval, meaning that regional water and land resources have improved.

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    Hanliang FU, Xiaojun LIU
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    Considering the different natures of recycled water, such as environmental protection and public welfare, we used a single category implicit association test (SC-IAT) to avoid the influence that some factors (e. g. social preferences) have on the research outcomes and to arrive at a more accurate understanding of public attitudes towards recycled water. From the perspective of implicit attitude, it proved the“spiritual contagion” phenomenon of the public to refuse the use of recycled because it comes from processed polluted water. This made a comparison between the implicit attitude of the public towards reclaimed water and the public’s explicit attitude towards the use of recycled water through self-report questionnaires. The implicit attitude of the public is more active than the explicit attitude, which provides a scientific explanation for the issue why reclaimed water is not approved by most citizens. Experimental variables were used to simulate the strategy to motivate the environmental protection motivation, demonstration guiding strategy and working mechanism of knowledge publicity. Besides, intervention simulation has been designed, and participants in the experimental group are divided into three groups to receive three types of intervention simulation. By using comparative variables to change the attitude of participants before and after the test, three types of intervening strategies can help citizens conquer their spiritual contagion attitude toward reclaimed water and improve their attitude toward the reuse of water. The demonstration guiding strategy had the most significant effect, is very important for the use of recycled water and has a large effect on residents’ attitudes.

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    Liu YANG, Yuchun ZHU, Yang REN
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    Because the governmental governance model of small-scale farmland water conservancy cannot fully meet the actual needs of farmers’ agricultural production and management, farmers’ participation in the management and maintenance has become the key to break the governance dilemma. Based on the IAD theoretical framework, this paper discussed the influence of farmers’ social trust and organizational support on the performance of farmers’ participation in the management and maintenance of small-scale farmland water conservancy theoretically. Then an Ordered Probit model was employed using 774 household surveys collected from Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. We conclude that farmers’ social trust and organizational support positively the performance of farmers’ participation in the management and maintenance of small-scale farmland water conservancy. To further verify the research conclusion, we establish a robustness test by culling older adults from the whole sample; the result is that this conclusion remained true. Apart from this aspect, organizational support could positively enhance the influence of social trust on the performance of farmers’ participation in the management and maintenance of small-scale farmland water conservancy. Also, organizational support could affect the performance by affecting farmers’ approval of village cadres and systems of management and maintenance. This study offers the government a policy enlightenment that, through promoting communication between farmers and their sense of social trust and enhancing organization support of village to farmers, it effectively the performance of farmers’ participation in the management and maintenance of small-scale farmland water conservancy.

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    Zhiqi YANG, Jinwei DONG, Xinliang XU, Guosong ZHAO, Wei CHEN, Yan ZHOU
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    As the main type of terrestrial ecosystem, forests play an important role in maintaining biodiversity and regulating regional climates. However, increasingly aggravated deforestation or forest degradation, such as forest fragmentation, have impeded sustainable forest development and threatened biodiversity around the world, especially in the fragile Loess Plateau of China. Hence, the objective of this study was to investigate the spatiotemporal pattern of forest fragmentation in the Loess Plateau from 1980 to 2015 using a landscape fragmentation model and long-term land use datasets in seven periods (1980, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2008, and 2015) generated by the visual interpretation of Landsat images. We found that the fraction of forest area decreased first and then increased; meanwhile, the forest fragmentation situation aggravated first and then alleviated, corresponding with that of forest proportions. The highly fragmented patch forest category was predominant, while the least fragmented interior forest category was a minority and highly concentrated in its spatial distribution. In addition, the patch forest and interior forest categories decreased from 1980 to 1995, and then increased after 2000. At a regional level, forests in the plain valley areas and earth hill areas with limited soil erosion more easily recovered and showed a rapid recovery of forest fragmentation. At the county level, forest fragmentation differed remarkably in various counties; specifically, forest fragmentation problems in Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia provinces were more severe than in Shanxi province. On the whole, before the implementation of the “Grain for Green” Project, the areas of forests tended to decline and forest fragmentation was aggravated, severely damaging the regional environment. After the implementation of the “Grain for Green” Project, areas of forests increased rapidly and forest fragmentation was alleviated.

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    Ting HUANG, Deyong YU, Jianmin QIAO, Ruifang HAO
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    Soil conservation is important for maintaining stability and sustainability of fragile arid and semi-arid grassland ecosystems. Here, using GIS technology the relationship between soil conservation and changes in landscape pattern at a watershed scale in the Xilingol league was analyzed using stepwise regression. We found that soil conservation in different landscape types varied. The pattern in the soil conservation per unit area was forest > farmland > grassland. From 2005 to 2010, soil conservation in forest ecosystems declined, while soil conservation of grassland ecosystems and farmland ecosystems increased. There were significant differences for soil conservation among different landscape-level metrics and among class-level metrics for different landscape types. At the landscape level, soil conservation of watersheds increased when patch numbers and the Shannon’s diversity index decreased and the landscape shape index and Shannon’s evenness index increased. Patch number had a higher effect on soil conservation. At the class level, rainfall and vegetation cover in forest decreased. Soil conservation of forest ecosystems decreased with increasing aggregation index. Soil conservation of grassland ecosystems increased with increasing large patch index. Soil conservation of farmland ecosystems increased with an increasing proportion of landscape and decreasing mean contiguity index. Landscape patterns and ecological processes impact each other. We can better understand the ecological significance of landscape pattern changes by looking at the impact of landscape pattern changes on soil conservation. The results of this study will promote regional landscape management and soil and water conservation.

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    Shanshan XU, Qinghe ZHAO, Zihao CAO, Yifan ZHANG
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    Landscape leakiness describes the extent to which landscapes have lost their capacity to regulate rainwater and soil nutrients, which can provide an approach to assess landscape function. In this study, taking the riparian vegetation buffer zone of the Beijiang River as a case study, the leakiness index (LI), an indicator for reflecting landscape leakiness, was applied to evaluate the soil and water conservation function of the riparian vegetation buffer zone. Based on the DEM and vegetation data derived from remote sensing images from 1995-2015, we explained the calculation process of LI and verified the applicability of LI in the study area using the USLE model. We analyzed spatial-temporal variation in landscape leakiness and associated factors. The results showed that LI presented better applicability in the riparian vegetation buffer zone of the Beijiang River according to a significantly positive correlation between LI and soil erosion modulus. Temporal and spatial variation in landscape leakiness was obvious and generally showed an increasing tendency during 1995-2015. While landscape leakiness in several typical areas was higher with fluctuated change, such as Shaoguan, Nanxiong and Qingyuan. Land use changes, especially forest and construction land were major factors affecting landscape leakiness variation. Specifically, LI presented inverse variation with changes in the proportion of forest land area, and the same tendency with construction land. Results from this study can provide a reference for the applicability of LI and the evaluation of water and soil conservation function of riparian vegetation buffer zone in subtropical areas.

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    Hui JIA, Hai CHEN, Nanzhao MAO, Xia NIE
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    Scientific evaluation of complex landscape ecosystem sustainable development is important to grasp whether healthy development is occurring. Employing dissipative structure theory to illustrate the evaluation and dynamic evolution of landscape sustainability in ecological fragile areas has important theoretical and practical significance. This study has been carried out by three principal aspects in the process of sustainable evaluation, and a case study was conducted for Gaoqu commune in Mizhi County, an ecological fragile area. First, the evaluation index system of sustainable development of the landscape was formed based on the dissipative structure theory and landscape nature-economy-society complex system theory. Second, the appraisable model of landscape sustainability was set up based on entropy change. Last, input-output entropy, metabolism entropy production and total entropy, three types of information entropy, were calculated to analyze the order, complexity and sustainability of landscapes. We found that the evaluation index system accurately grasps the characteristic of landscapes and is useful for indicating function and complex evolutionary mechanisms. The appraisable model reflects landscape sustainable development. From 2009 to 2014, trends in the input-output entropy of the Gaoqu commune declined, and the metabolism entropy production did not. On the whole, the orderliness degree of the commune increased in a healthy direction. The numerical value of sustainable development in the study area increased, and landscape sustainability is on the rise. Some optimization measures are put forward to promote landscape sustainable development.

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    Ming WU, Guoqiang JIANG, Fengrui JIA, Guangxin LIU, Qiang YUE
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    Research in China on carbon emissions throughout the petroleum life cycle has mainly focused on the consumption of petroleum products, which cannot truly reflect carbon emissions. In order to explore development trends of carbon emissions in the petroleum life cycle, we establish the carbon flow model throughout the petroleum life cycle combining material flow analysis (MFA) and life cycle assessment (LCA). Taking a large-scale domestic refining and petrochemical enterprise as an example, hidden carbon emissions and carbon emissions from petroleum combustion are calculated, and factors influencing embodied carbon emissions are analyzed. Four scenarios were developed to predict the hidden carbon emission trend for China’s petroleum sectors from 2015-2050. The results show that the total carbon emission per ton of oil is about 670 kg (equal to CO2 emission of 2457 kg) in the petroleum life cycle, of which hidden carbon accounts for 23% of total carbon emissions. Exploitation and refining processes account for 46% and 54% of the total hidden carbon, respectively. In the exploitation processes, embodied carbon emissions mainly come from natural gas consumption and electricity consumption, accounting for 47% and 30% of the total, respectively. The embodied carbon emissions of refining processes are mainly from coke combustion, accounting for 46% of the total. In the consumption processes, the consumption of gasoline, diesel and kerosene in the transportation industry is the largest, accounting for 42%, 53% and 80% of the total, respectively. Improving the energy efficiency of the petroleum sector and optimizing energy consumption structure is an effective way to achieve a national carbon emission peak by 2030.

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    Qinqin SHI, Fengxian LU, Hai CHEN, Lijun ZHANG, Rongwei WU, Xiaoying LIANG
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    The Central Plains Economic Region is undergoing rapid urbanization and industrialization. Living standards and the consumption demands of residents will need to be improved for some time, but indirect carbon emissions from consumption have rigid requirements. From the perspective of consumption, little research has explored historical growth, spatial heterogeneity and factors affecting indirect carbon emissions from urban residential consumption. Understanding these patterns is significant to the development of low carbon cities and formation of reasonable consumption patterns. Here, we calculated the indirect carbon emissions of urban residential consumption in the Central Plains Economic Region using an input-output model, spatial self-correlation and spatial panel modeling. We found that indirect carbon emissions increased from 2002 to 2014. From the consumption structure, the carbon emissions from survival consumption (clothing, food and living) grew faster; development consumption (traffic, education, entertainment and healthcare) grew slower. From spatial association patterns, the spatial correlation type of per capita carbon emissions from urban residential consumption is mainly composed of HH and LL from 2002 to 2014. Spatial Durbin model estimation results show that income level, consumption structure, industrial structure and consumption consciousness are the main influencers of indirect residential carbon emissions. Factors such as consumption consciousness and consumption structure have spatial spillover effects.

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    Peijun RONG, Lijun ZHANG, Rongzeng LIU, Yaochen QIN, Zhicheng ZHENG
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    In the context of global warming and rapid urbanization, sustainable traffic problems are receiving more attention. We took the city of Kaifeng as a case study as it is a typical small to medium-sized city in China. Using large sample survey data, high-resolution remote sensing images, spatial autocorrelation analysis, standard deviation ellipse analysis and geographical weighted regression we studied the spatial characteristics and influencing factors of daily travel carbon emissions. We found that high-value agglomeration areas of household travel carbon emissions were observed in new urban development zones. Built-up areas are expanding faster in the outer layers of the city, and to some extent validated the driving effect of urban sprawl on the increasing carbon emissions of residents. Spatial differences in household travel carbon emissions reflected living separation phenomenon and was serious in the new commercial housing community in rapid urban expansion areas. Public service supply did not match urban development and slow development areas lack convenient service facilities such as one-stop shopping places. Imbalance in family travel carbon emissions is significant, but income is not a determining factor and travel to places of education has even more influence than the distance to employment. The lagging and uneven development of education resources is needed to improve the family's constant attention to education. The coefficient of the male host job-live distance has a higher space fragmentation degree. The effect strength of other factors is obvious in the spatial distribution pattern of zonal gradients, consistent with the main direction of urban development.