Essays about: "China environment pollution"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words China environment pollution.

  1. 1. China's Green Transition: Analysing Chinese Minerals Policy, and its Impact on Zambia

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Richard Olsson; [2023]
    Keywords : China; Zambia; resource security; energy metals; energy minerals; copper; environment; Debt Trap Diplomacy; Pollution Haven Hypothesis; Resource Security Theory; Green Transition;

    Abstract : This study concerns the dynamics of Chinese strategic minerals policy and its effects on Zambian copper mining between 2016-2020. The essay employs a complementary—theories congruence analysis using Resource Security Theory, Debt Trap Diplomacy, and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis in order to analyse China’s actions and ascertain their effects on Zambia. READ MORE

  2. 2. Closing the Plastic Tap — Global Plastic Waste and the Circular Economy. A Multi-Regional Hybrid Input-Output Analysis of Plastic Waste Footprints

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Judith Baeta Humanes; [2021]
    Keywords : Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Plastic pollution is a cross-national environmental and societal challenge that needs to be addressed from the point of view of global supply chains. The circular economy (CE) has emerged as an alternative paradigm to the traditional “take-make-waste” models of production and consumption to create a closed-loop system so that plastic is trapped in the economy and not in the environment. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on the Urban Air Quality: A Machine Learning Approach.

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för information och teknik

    Author : Srinivas Bobba; [2021]
    Keywords : Covid-19; air pollutants; Lockdown; AVOVA; Permutation Test; Machine Learning; feature importance.;

    Abstract : ‘‘SARS-CoV-2’’ which is responsible for the current pandemic of COVID-19 disease was first reported from Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019. Since then, to prevent its propagation around the world, a set of rapid and strict countermeasures have been taken. READ MORE

  4. 4. The dark truth behind plastic waste trade, the consequences of the Chinese import ban & the environmental damage of plastic waste trade using Life Cycle Assessment.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Olivia Lundmark; [2021]
    Keywords : Chinese import ban; Life Cycle Assessment; Plastic waste; Plastic waste trade; Science General;

    Abstract : In recent years, plastic waste trade has received increasing attention due to huge amounts ending up in countries with high rates of mismanaged plastic waste and the environmental damage of plastic pollution. The EU has been exporting plastic waste to China for recycling purposes due to insufficient domestic recycling capacities, until 2018, when China decided to ban all imports of plastic waste. READ MORE

  5. 5. The impact of Digital Inclusive Finance on Green Total Factor Productivity under the conditions of Regional Development, a Chinese case based on a spatial perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Xiao Zhang; [2021]
    Keywords : Green Total Factor Productivity; Digital Inclusive Finance; Regional Development Index; Spatial Autocorrelation; Spatial Dubin Model; Spatial Heterogeneity; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : As a country with a high proportion of population and land area in the world, China is in a stage of changing its economic development direction, from the previous extensive economic growth to the intensive economic growth. At the same time, due to the limited total amount of resources and limited environmental bearing capacity on the earth, certain constraints are found in terms of amount and structure, which makes the contradictions existing in resources, environment and development of China become prominent. READ MORE