The Study on Impact Degree between Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth in the Construction Industry of Five Northwestern Provinces

Abstract:

With the highly praised development of low-carbon and implementation of western development strategy, the various industries of northwest faced great stress with how to weigh the economic growth and reduce carbon emissions. In this study, based on the data about energy consumption and GDP in the construction industry of five northwestern provinces, and estimates the carbon emissions of construction indirectly. Then combined with Decoupling Theory analysis the interacted impact among carbon emissions, energy consumption and economic growth in the construction industry of five northwestern provinces .The results shows that the development of construction industry in provinces is still based on high energy consumption and high carbon emissions, but each impact degree of them are different. Finally, put some suggest improvements to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions in the construction industry path of five northwestern provinces.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 838-841)
• Pages: 2818-2822
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.838-841.2818
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Su Xian Zhang*, Xian Wei Tang
• Keywords: Carbon Emission (CE), Economic Growth, Energy Consumption (EC), Impact Degree

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