Socioeconomic determinants of China's growing CH4 emissions

Chinas provincial disparities and the determinants of provincial inequality

The paper explains the growth –inequality nexus for China’s provinces. The theoretical model of provincial development consists of two regions and studies the interactions of a mutual depending development process. Due to positive externalities, incoming trade and FDI induce imitation and hence productivity growth. The regional government can in‡uence the economy by changing international trans...

Early anthropogenic CH4 emissions and the variation of CH4 and CH4 over the last millennium

[1] This study presents a new hypothesis to explain the observed variation of CH4 and dC-CH4 over the last millennium. It was originally proposed that the observed minimum of dC-CH4 prior to the start of industrialization is caused by a large shift in biomass burning emissions between 1400 and 1700 A.D. According to our new hypothesis, however, the dC-CH4 minimum is the first sign of the global...

CH4 and CO2 emissions from Alaskan lakes

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Modelling CH4 emissions from arctic wetlands: effects of hydrological parameterisation

Together with water vapour and carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) is an important contributor to the warming of the atmosphere. The atmospheric mixing ratios of so-called greenhouse gases, CO2, and nitrous oxide (N2O) have increased about 31%, and 17%, respectively, above pre-industrial values, whereas CH4 has increased 151 ± 25%, (Watson et al., 2001). The CH4 concentration in 2005 of about 1...

The marginal impacts of CO2, CH4 and SF6 emissions