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Driving Factors of China’s Carbon Emissions

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In this chapter, we adopted the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method to investigate the effect of three driving factors on national and provincial carbon emission: economic scale, economic structure, and technological level.

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  1. Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Zhu Liu

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Liu, Z. (2016). Driving Factors of China’s Carbon Emissions. In: Carbon Emissions in China. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52864-8_4

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