Greening the Belt and Road Initiative:Evidence from emergy evaluation of China's provincial trade with ASEAN countries

Xu Tian ¹Joseph Sarkis ²Wei Chen ³Yong Geng ¹Haozhi Pan ⁴Zuoxi Liu ⁵Sergio Ulgiati⁶

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作者信息

1. SJTU-UNIDO Joint Institute of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development,School of International and Public Affairs,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200030,China
2. Worcester Polytechnic Institute,Worcester MA 01609-2280,USA
3. School of Geography and Environment,Shandong Normal University,Jinan 250358,China
4. School of International and Public Affairs,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200030,China
5. Key Laboratory of Clean Energy of Liaoning,School of Energy and Environment,Shenyang Aerospace University,Shenyang 110136,China
6. Department of Science and Technology,Parthenope University of Napoli,Naples 80143,Italy;School of Environment,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China
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Abstract

The Belt and Road Initiative(BRI)is a central policy within China's regional development and foreign trade strategy.Traditional trade has typically depended on economic valuation of resources,while the embedded en-vironmental value is rarely considered.This situation exists in most BRI trade evaluations.To address BRI en-vironmental sustainability issues,we consider the role of pivotal Chinese provinces and their key trade partners(ASEAN countries)as an illustration for the environmental value of resource exchanges.Emergy accounting is used as the valuation tool for a sample period of seventeen years.Key results include:(1)Emergy valuations show sustainability of sample provinces decreased over time;(2)ASEAN countries such as Indonesia,Malaysia,Singapore,Thailand,and Vietnam play significant resource roles for provincial economic systems;(3)Diverse trends in trade between pivotal provinces and ASEAN countries resulted in an unbalanced trade structure from trade.Policy implications are proposed to promote a more globally sustainable and fair trade using BRI as an established trade policy.

Key words

International trade/Emergy/Belt and road initiative/Environmental sustainability/Province

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基金项目

上海市浦江人才计划(2020PJC078)

国家自然科学基金(72274120)

国家自然科学基金(72088101)

国家自然科学基金(71810107001)

出版年

2024

自然科学基础研究(英文)

CSTPCD

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