China's Energy Security Strategy and the Regional Environment : Assessing the Environmental Impact of China's Economic Growth and Energy Consuption Applying a Dynamic Welfare Optimisation Approach

Oberheitmann, Andreas

ISBN 10: 3639100875 / ISBN 13: 9783639100877

Verlag: VDM Verlag, 2008

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Inhaltsangabe:

Since 1980, China s economy quintupled. This
growth brought about considerable welfare
gains for the population. However, this also
lead to challenges for China s energy
security (e.g. increasing oil-imports)
and severe regional environmental problems (e.g. SO2-
emissions and acid rain). Thus, the environment is
gaining an increasing role on the political agenda
and environmental considerations are likely to play
a much more important role in China s future energy
security policy. Until 2020, GDP and energy
consumption will further increase. Taking this into
account, future Chinese energy security strategy
constitutes an inter-temporal welfare optimisation
problem under domestic resources availability and
environmental constraints. In this study, a dynamic
inter-temporal optimisation model of energy
resources consumption and SO2-emissions is build up
and taken as a yardstick for the efficiency of
different energy security policy measures. As a
result, optimal control theory gives a normative
answer to the question how the utilisation of the
fossil resources and the environment has to be
chosen to maximise inter-temporal welfare in China.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: China's Energy Security Strategy and the ...
Verlag: VDM Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: As New