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An Analysis of sustainable development under an intertemporal resource constraint condition should be made by emphasizing the philosophy of option value, namely, contemporary people should keep the diversity of natural and cultural resources for the future generations so as to make different choices. In this report, resource efficiency research indicators at city and regional levels are built on the basis of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) to examine the resource efficiency and sustainable development of China’s five major special economic zones.
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See Zhong (2012a).
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Chen et al. (2010).
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Xu et al. (2004).
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Huang et al. (2006).
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Huang and Zhu (2007).
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See Zhong and Zhuang (2012).
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See Zhong (2008a).
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See Zhong and Zhuang (2012).
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Calculations are conducted according to the following technical indicators: aluminum content in aluminum ore is 40 %, and 1 t crude steel needs 1.6 t iron ore with iron content at 62 %.
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Some of the research addresses the energy consumption issue by only taking into account the consumption of single-factor resources such as energy, thus arriving at the conclusion that the coefficient for resource consumption in Hainan Province was relatively small (see Liu and Yang 2012). However, when the overall consideration was given to resource input (rather than single resource input), for example, MFA was used to classify, reorganize and comprehensively calculate the resource input, we found that such indicators as output, to which the comprehensive resource consumption corresponded, can more truly reflect real resource input and consumption during the economic development in more than 30 years; the resulting conclusion was also greatly different.
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See Allan and Hanley (2006).
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Zhong (2012b).
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Zhong, R., Peng, X. (2016). Report on the Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Development of China’s Special Economic Zones. In: Tao, Y., Yuan, Y. (eds) Annual Report on the Development of China's Special Economic Zones (2016). Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0542-8_3
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