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Decoupling of land-use net carbon flux, economic growth, and population change in China

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In the process of China’s modernization, promoting the sustainable development of resource-based cities is a major strategic issue and it has now also become a worldwide issue. This study uses the coupling model to validate the coupling relationship between China’s land-use net carbon flux and economic growth and population change during 2009–2017. The study for the first time draws the conclusion that the coupling degree among the three is getting lower, the correlation is gradually weaker, and the independent relationship is becoming more and more prominent. Utilizing the Tapio decoupling model, we obtained the weak decoupling conclusion that the economic growth rate is higher than the growth rate of the land-use net carbon flux, while negative decoupling of sprawl is where the rate of population growth is less than the rate of net land-use carbon flux growth.

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  1. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 100102, China

    Xianke Huang

  2. School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100000, China

    Yujie Huang & Yang Su

  3. School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA

    Ruiliang Li

  4. College of Economics and Trade, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi, 830052, China

    Wei Cheng & Yang Su

  5. School of Business Administration, Xinjiang University of Finance & Economics, Urumqi, 830052, China

    Feng Li

  6. General Geological Environmental Monitoring Station of Tianjin Province, Tianjin, 300191, China

    XianXiang Du

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Y.H. and R.L. provided data and writing ideas. X.H. helped to organize the data and completed the main part of the thesis. Professor. Y.S. helped to organize the data and completed the first and second parts of the text. F.L. provided a lot of help in language editing. W.C. and X.D. also provided financial support for data collection and language editing.

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Huang, X., Huang, Y., Li, R. et al. Decoupling of land-use net carbon flux, economic growth, and population change in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 107058–107067 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-25335-8

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