Abstract
BackgroundScience popularization resources development is an important means to improve public scientific literacy and has a crucial influence on the formation of public consumption habits, patterns and concepts, and ultimately on the energy consumption carbon footprint.MethodsBased on panel data from the provincial regions in China from 2010 to 2014, this paper measures the energy consumption carbon footprint in provincial regions using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) methods and builds a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model to evaluate the levels of science popularization resources development in provincial regions by using the global entropy method. Then, the mechanisms of influence on the energy consumption carbon footprint and the levels of science popularization resources development in the provincial regions of China are analyzed and measured.ResultsThe results showed that science popularization resources development could significantly lower the energy consumption carbon footprint; from 2010 to 2014, the lowering effect of science popularization resources development on the energy consumption carbon footprint in the major east, middle, and west provincial regions showed a weakening trend, with a greater lowering amplitude in the east than in the middle and west regions and narrowing spatial differences among them; at present, this influence works best in the west region followed by the middle and east regions.ConclusionsThe results imply that we should give full attention to science popularization resources development to lower the energy consumption carbon footprint in China. In addition, focus should be given to the west region of China and construction mechanisms for science popularization resources that are built with flexible adoptions of means such as a combination of government guidance and market mechanisms, as well as joint construction by government and society.
Highlights
Science popularization resources development is an important means to improve public scientific literacy and has a crucial influence on the formation of public consumption habits, patterns and concepts, and on the energy consumption carbon footprint
The results from Moran’s I statistical analysis show that the values are 0.2860, 0.2406, 0.2641, 0.2834, and 0.2989, and the normal statistical magnitude Z is lower than the significant level (1.96) of the normal distribution function 0.01, indicating that there is relatively strong positive spatial correlation among the levels of the energy consumption carbon footprint in provincial regions, and the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model needs to be introduced to offset the shortcomings of traditional constant coefficient models
With SAM4.0 software, the values estimated by the GWR model in 2010 and 2014 in the provincial regions are calculated and compared with those from an OLS model, which is a typical example of traditional constant coefficient models
Summary
Science popularization resources development is an important means to improve public scientific literacy and has a crucial influence on the formation of public consumption habits, patterns and concepts, and on the energy consumption carbon footprint. The level of scientific literacy of the public will influence their consumption habits and patterns and their energy consumption carbon footprints. The input system consists of resources related to science popularization abilities such as human, finance, and site resources, while the output system consists of science popularization event resources and media resources produced from creating and managing the above input system. The development of these resources is conducive to practicing low-carbon consumption and development strategies featuring policy guidance, corporate dominance and public participation [4–6], and effectively lowering the energy consumption carbon footprint [7–10].
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