Decoupling of carbon emissions from agricultural land utilisation from economic growth in China

IF 1.9 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Pub Date : 2020-11-27 DOI:10.17221/290/2020-agricecon

Min Zhou, Bixia Hu

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Abstract

China, as a populous and agricultural country, is confronted with a tremendous challenge involving the balance between agricultural economic growth and carbon emissions from agricultural land utilisation (CEALU). This study calculates the total CEALU in the 31 provinces of mainland China and uses the Tapio model to analyse the decoupling of CEALU from economic growth during the period 2000–2017. The results are shown as follows: (i) The CEALU in China has substantially increased, and there are obvious spatial discrepancies in CEALU from the regional and provincial perspectives. (ii) The decoupling of CEALU from economic growth at the national level shows a progressive improvement. The decoupling trends show significant spatial disparities at the regional level due to different natural and economic conditions. (iii) There is an increase in the numbers of provinces, which have achieved economic growth with the reduction of CEALU. Policymakers should attach more importance to the relationship between CEALU and economic growth, and relevant policies should be adapted to local natural and economic conditions.

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中国农业用地碳排放与经济增长的脱钩

中国作为一个人口大国和农业大国，面临着农业经济增长与农业用地碳排放平衡的巨大挑战。本研究计算了中国大陆31个省份的经济总量，并利用Tapio模型分析了2000-2017年中国大陆31个省份经济总量与经济增长的脱钩关系。结果表明:(1)中国区域经济自由度大幅上升，且区域和省际空间差异明显。在国家一级，中东欧联盟与经济增长的脱钩显示出逐步改善的趋势。由于自然条件和经济条件的不同，区域层面的脱钩趋势呈现出明显的空间差异。随着中欧经济联盟的减少而实现经济增长的省份数量有所增加。决策者应更加重视CEALU与经济增长的关系，相关政策应适应当地的自然和经济条件。

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Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Agricultural Economics & Policy-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

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审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： An international peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika).Thematic scope: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. Since 1993 the papers continually treat problems which were published in the journal Sociologie venkova a zemědělství until now. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.