China's air pollution crisis: Science and policy perspectives

B Tilt - Environmental science & policy, 2019 - Elsevier
China's air pollution crisis, which has profound effects on the environment and human
health, has attracted a great deal of scientific and media attention both domestically and …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal patterns of COVID-19 impact on human activities and environment in mainland China using nighttime light and air quality data

Q Liu, D Sha, W Liu, P Houser, L Zhang, R Hou, H Lan… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought drastic changes to people's
daily lives, work, and the surrounding environment. Investigations into these changes are …

Does renewable energy technological innovation control China's air pollution? A spatial analysis

Y Zhu, Z Wang, J Yang, L Zhu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
China's rapid industrialization has led to severe air pollution, which has attracted
considerable attention from academia and media. To achieve cleaner production, the …

The impacts of China's provincial energy policies on major air pollutants: A spatial econometric analysis

J Zeng, T Liu, R Feiock, F Li - Energy Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
The production and consumption of energy is the predominant source of air pollution
worldwide. Thus, governmental energy control policies may lead to large reductions in air …

Natural gas shortages during the “coal-to-gas” transition in China have caused a large redistribution of air pollution in winter 2017

S Wang, H Su, C Chen, W Tao, DG Streets, Z Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
The Chinese “coal-to-gas” and “coal-to-electricity” strategies aim at reducing dispersed coal
consumption and related air pollution by promoting the use of clean and low-carbon fuels in …

Orchestrating big data analytics capability for sustainability: A study of air pollution management in China

D Zhang, SL Pan, J Yu, W Liu - Information & Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Under rapid urbanization, cities are facing many societal challenges that impede
sustainability. Big data analytics (BDA) gives cities unprecedented potential to address …

Breathe easy? Local nuances of authoritarian environmentalism in China's battle against air pollution

AL Ahlers, Y Shen - The China Quarterly, 2018 - cambridge.org
The heavy smog suffocating China's cities is increasingly being perceived as a threat by
both the population and the authorities. Consequently, political action aiming at regulating …

Peer effects in local government decision-making: evidence from urban environmental regulation

J Xu, J Wang, X Yang, C **ong - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper is the first to introduce the theory of peer effects to explain the interactive
behavior of urban environmental regulation (UER). We construct a spatial autoregressive …

City-level socioeconomic divergence, air pollution differentials and internal migration in China: Migrants vs talent migrants

H Wang, F Guo - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the relative impacts of city-level contextual features, including air
quality, medical resources and socioeconomic development indicators, on the scale of …

Dietary shifts can reduce premature deaths related to particulate matter pollution in China

X Liu, APK Tai, Y Chen, L Zhang, G Shaddick, X Yan… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
Shifting towards more meat-intensive diets may have indirect health consequences through
environmental degradation. Here we examine how trends in dietary patterns in China over …