Tags : Sustainable Development

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Eco-Business: Three-year cut to life expectancy from coal heating
ENVR & SOSC Prof He Guojun said that to reduce air pollution many cities have switched to using natural gas or electricity to power homes and other buildings instead of burning coal, this approach can deliver enormous long-term health and welfare benefits. The researchers looked at the causes of death regionally ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2017/eco-business-he-three-year-cut-to-life-expectancy-from-coal-heating
Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests
Event Summary Susmita Dasgupta's research develops and applies a spatial econometric model that links road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon and Myanmar. Using 250 m cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest ...
https://iems.ust.hk/forests
20 Challenges for Innovation Policy Studies
Event Summary With the field of innovation studies now half a century old, the occasion has been marked by several studies looking back to identify the main advances made over its lifetime. In his academic seminar, Ben Martin (University of Sussex) looks at a list of 20 advances over the field’s history, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/20-challenges-for-innovation-policy-studies-ben-martin
Balancing Development and the Environment in a Changing World: Expressways, GDP, and Pollution in China
Abstract How does an economy rebalance economic production and environmental preservation when its ability to generate income using environmental resources changes? Theoretically, we predict that an increase in the ability can have heterogeneous impacts on the economy’s environmental quality and income. ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/balancing-development-and-the-environment-in-a-changing-world-expressways-gdp-and-pollution-in-china-guojun-he
Balancing Development and the Environment
When productivity changes, how would an economy re-balance economic production and environmental preservation? We develop a conceptual framework to analyze the question, and predict that a productivity shock can have heterogeneous impacts on environmental quality and income. Exploiting a quasi-experiment provided by ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/he-balancing-development-and-the-environment
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