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This article considers the medium- and long-term prospects for residential construction in China and their implications for steel consumption.

his study explores the environmental effects of the triple transition process of marketisation, globalisation and decentralisation using data on industrial SO2 and soot emissions at the prefecture-city level

China's Real Estate Bubble Bursts -- Good or Bad? The latest outlook from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says China's real estate market fluctuations are a major threat to its growth next year.

As China's real estate market continues to cool, experts have warned that a collapse in the market could spell disaster for the economy. This poses a dilemma for the Chinese regime. Sky-high property prices can fuel social tensions, but a reverse of the property boom could damage Beijing's bid to maintain the economy.

In a new short documentary, 'Hopeful', Jonah Kessel shows the work of environmental NGO Friends of Nature in using new laws to hold companies accountable for their pollution. The film focuses on a Yunnan "cancer village" and Friends of Nature activist Chang Cheng, who says: "Sometimes trying to protect China's natural habitat feels like playing a game, because we have an opponent. Every time we advance, so do they. Sometimes it feels as though we cannot move at all. But there are still those of us who remain hopeful."

n the spring of 2012 staff from the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester travelled to China and Colombia.

The story is about 'Integrated Fish Farming', using traditional methods that have been adapted to modern circumstances, and opportunities to apply these as a low ecological footprint fish farming model.

This blog contains information and ideas about the interrelationship of religion, nature and modernity with a focus on China. The underlying premises are that religious values and ideas are key resources for constructing a sustainable future for the human species, and that nowhere on the planet is this more important than China. China is the world's largest country by population, the second largest economy in real GDP terms, and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

We use three waves of urban household survey from 1995 to 2007 to investigate the trends of residual inequality and its determinants.

This paper presents the impact of income inequality on subjective well-being using data from the 2002 Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) Survey.

The presence of urban villages is a unique product of China's urbanization. In this article, we explore the effects of urban villages on the formal housing market.

We examine the effects of the firm contribution rate and individual contribution rate on the per capita income growth rate, population growth rate, saving rate and education expense rate.

Residential energy consumption (REC) is the second largest energy use category (10%) in China and urban residents account for 63% of the REC.

This paper projects Chinese urban residential construction out to 2040.