Analysis of air pollution reduction and climate change mitigation in the industry sector of Yangtze River Delta in China

Zheng, Jiajia; Jiang, Ping; Qiao, Wen; Zhu, Yun; Kennedy, Emily Huddart

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.011

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“…Almost 4 million people live within 1 meter of high tide, and Strauss and colleagues () estimate that 544 cities and towns, and 38 counties, have over 10% of their populations within that range (Florida, Louisiana, California, New York and New Jersey have the most people at risk). Rising sea levels will create particularly high risk in major river delta regions, even in wealthy Western nations, but devastatingly in poorer Southern Asian nations such as Vietnam and Bangladesh, as well as China (Zheng, Qiao, Zhu, & Kennedy, ) and India. Even with substantial adaptive infrastructure investments (as will continue to happen in the U.S. Mississippi Delta and Germany's Rhine Delta), these regions will eventually be overwhelmed by the scale of currently likely projected sea level increases (Temmerman & Kirwan, 2015).…”

Section: Some Of the Major Environmental Security Results Of Climate mentioning

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Environmental Security is Homeland Security: Climate Disruption as the Ultimate Disaster Risk Multiplier

O'Sullivan¹

2015

Risk, Hazards &Amp; Crisis in Public Policy

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There are several important linkages among environmental hazards and crises caused (at least in part) by human‐caused global warming, and both homeland security and national security risk analysis and practice. Increasingly robust research has demonstrated (1) anthropogenic climate change and its interaction with other human environmental pressures (population, pollution, and resource consumption growth); (2) worsening climate disruption patterns and disaster projections, showing long‐range risk to the very survival of human civilization; and (3) links among environmental hazards, human economic and political instability, and development of political violence. This paper discusses how and why environmental security (ES) and homeland security (HS) are linked, including the threat‐multiplying aspect of climate disruption risk factors; briefly contextualizes their growing interconnectedness in both theory and policy practice; and reviews some of what is most recently known about the science of climate disruption. It reviews disaster mitigation and resilient adaptation policy implications of climate variables such as extreme heat and drought, extreme storms, sea level rise, ocean ecosystem damage, and food and water crises. Most U.S. government security‐related organizations now incorporate HS‐ES mission statements, but current environmental security risk management and planning investment is insufficient, and burdened by political obstruction and costly scientific uncertainties.

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Section: Some Of the Major Environmental Security Results Of Climate mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Security is Homeland Security: Climate Disruption as the Ultimate Disaster Risk Multiplier

O'Sullivan¹

2015

Risk, Hazards &Amp; Crisis in Public Policy

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“…The established optimization model incorporated key factors affecting cost-effectiveness and co-benefits in order to select appropriate technologies, thereby enabling the authors to identify the right low-carbon pathway for China's cement industry through the combination of cost-effective technologies. Zheng et al (2015) employed a GAINS-China model to evaluate the air pollution reduction and climate change mitigation achievements in the industry sector under the current policy of the three Chinese areas (i.e. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai) in Yangtse River Delta for the period of 2005e2030.…”

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Recent progress on innovative eco-industrial development

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Fujita

Park

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Many studies have shown that ambient air pollution is related to public health, ecological plant growth, and regional and global climates [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. A critical component of air pollution is atmospheric PM, which includes fine particles with small diameters that remain suspended in air and do not settle.…”

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Characteristics of Particulate Pollution (PM2.5 and PM10) and Their Spacescale-Dependent Relationships with Meteorological Elements in China

Chen

Zeng

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Particulate matter (PM) pollution in China has an obvious characteristic of spatial distribution. It is well known that intensive anthropogenic activities, such as fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning, have great influence on the spatial distribution of PM pollution. However, the spacescale-dependent relationships between PM concentrations and weather conditions remain unclear. Here, we investigated the characteristics of two types of particulate pollution, including PM 2.5 and PM 10 , and their spatial relationships with meteorological elements in 173 cities throughout China from March 2014 to February 2015. Results: (1) High PM 2.5 concentrations were distinctly located southeast of the Hu Line, and high PM 10 concentrations were distinctly situated north of the Yangtze River; (2) Spacescale-dependent relationships were found between PM pollution and meteorological elements. The influence of temperature had similar inverted V-shaped characteristics, namely, there was serious PM pollution when temperature was about 15 • C, and there was slight PM pollution when temperature was less or more than 15 • C. Annual precipitation, wind speed, and relative humidity were negatively correlated with PM, while annual atmospheric pressure was positively correlated with PM; (3) The ideal meteorological regions were identified according to the quantified spatial relationships between PM and meteorological elements, which could be defined by a combination of the following conditions: (a) temperature <10 • C or >21 • C; (b) precipitation >1500 mm; (c) atmospheric pressure <900 hPa; (d) wind speed >3 m/s; and (e) relative humidity >65%, where air pollutants can easily be scavenged. The success of this research provides a meteorological explanation to the spatial distribution characteristics of PM pollution in China.

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Analysis of air pollution reduction and climate change mitigation in the industry sector of Yangtze River Delta in China

Cited by 91 publications

References 22 publications

Environmental Security is Homeland Security: Climate Disruption as the Ultimate Disaster Risk Multiplier

Environmental Security is Homeland Security: Climate Disruption as the Ultimate Disaster Risk Multiplier

Recent progress on innovative eco-industrial development

Characteristics of Particulate Pollution (PM2.5 and PM10) and Their Spacescale-Dependent Relationships with Meteorological Elements in China

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