Empirical research on the relationship between energy consumption and environmental quality in Beijing

The rapid increase in economy and improvement in living standard of households in China require more increased input of energy, while increased energy consumption results in severe environment pollution, which in turn affects environmental quality and economic development. Using grey relevancy analy...

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Published in2011 International Conference on Computer Science and Service System (CSSS) pp. 3228 - 3231
Main Authors Shuyun Zhang, Lingyao Zhou
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2011
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Beijing
Coal
Correlation
Economics
Energy consumption
environmental quality
Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques
grey relevancy analysis
Natural gas
Pollution
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Summary:The rapid increase in economy and improvement in living standard of households in China require more increased input of energy, while increased energy consumption results in severe environment pollution, which in turn affects environmental quality and economic development. Using grey relevancy analysis and these data about consumption of energy and environment quality from Beijing, we studied the relationship between energy consumption and environmental quality. These results showed that consumptions of fuel oil, coke and coal led to more severe pollution than those of natural gas, kerosene and diesel oil. Among all these factors, consumption of natural gas had the weakest contribution to environmental pollution. On the base of the results, we gave suggestions about how to adjust the structure of energy consumption and how to improve environmental quality in Beijing.
ISBN:9781424497621
1424497620
DOI:10.1109/CSSS.2011.5974724