Renewable Resource Industry Research Articles

Examining the carbon reduction effect of renewable resource utilization: based on national “urban mining” demonstration base

PurposeGiven the inevitable transition to renewable resource utilization and the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions, this study conducted quasi natural experiments to assess the impact of renewable resource utilization on carbon emissions based on the national “urban mining” demonstration bases (NUMDB).Design/methodology/approachThis study uses panel data from 275 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2019. The paper selects NUMDB as the proxy variable and conducts a quasi-natural experiment using a multi-period differences-in-differences model. We examine the impact of NUMDB on reducing carbon emissions, and then deeply explore its mechanism and spatial spillover effect.FindingsThis study found that: (1) the construction of NUMDB can significantly decrease the carbon emission in the host cities; (2) NUMDB’s construction has more significantly reduced the carbon emission in regions with higher levels of circular economy development, green technology innovation, regional environmental pollution, digital economy development and financial development; (3) by means of green technology innovation, optimized energy structure, and high-quality talent aggregation, NUMDB reduces urban carbon emissions; (4) NUMDB construction positively affects the carbon reduction efficiency of neighboring regions.Research limitations/implicationsWe propose corresponding policy suggestions to further promote the carbon emission reduction effect of NUMDB and develop the renewable resources industry in China based on the research findings.Practical implicationsThe contributions of this paper are as follows. Our study contributes to expanding the research scope on the environmental impact of the renewable resource industry, as there are few quantitative studies in this area.Social implicationsWe further consider the spatial heterogeneity of policies and analyze the carbon reduction effect of the NUMDB from the city level, which is beneficial to exploring more targeted and operable carbon reduction paths.Originality/valueThis study on identifying the causal relationship between renewable resource utilization and carbon emission reduction helps to explore the sustainable development path of renewable resource more comprehensively. Meanwhile, this paper provides a reference for other countries to improve the utilization of renewable resource and effectively reduce carbon emissions.

Constructing Portfolios Based on Different Weight Schemes

The growing concerns for environmental problems, as well as the recent confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, pushes people to the exploring and development of alternative resources other than conventional fuel, oil, and coal. The renewable resource market is in its great time. Therefore, finding an efficient way to build portfolios for its stocks becomes worth investigating. The paper collects 5 stock’s daily pricing data for a two-year period to build portfolios based different portfolio weight schemes. With the different combinations of weighting, a subsequent period of time is also used to test if the result from previous two-year period persists. As the result, because of the recent fluctuation in the stock market, the portfolio based on the previous two-year period doesn’t seem to fit the current market. The result demonstrates the fluctuation experienced by renewable resource industry and the high risk of investing in recent stock market. It also proves the importance of consistently incorporating updated data when constructing portfolios.

Research on the Transformation and Upgrading of China’s Recycling Resources Industry

Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the economy is in a critical period of transformation and upgrading. The renewable resources industry has been given new missions and requirements. The renewable resource industry is a fundamental change to the extensive development model of “mass production, mass consumption, and mass abandonment” in China, and is also the basic way to conserve resources and protect the environment. This paper explores the new situation and existing problems in the development of renewable resources industry, and proposes the path of transformation and upgrading of renewable resources industry. This provides a strong support and reference for the formulation of renewable resource industry planning and development strategies.

Liability of Middleness Revisited: The Advantages for Mid-Sized Competitors in Renewable Natural Resource Industries

ABSTRACTSize is an important antecedent of firm survival, and several studies theoretically sustain and empirically support a ‘liability of middleness’. Indeed, it is widely believed that companies should act strategically to either become large or remain small and occupy a niche position, because mid-sized firms face the strongest market selection pressures. This study challenges that logic in renewable natural resource industries. Measuring size as product-line scale and firm-level portfolio breadth, we argue that in industries characterized by cost competition, the lack of product differentiation, large capital investments, and sharp price oscillation, scale and breadth have a curvilinear effect on survival thatfavorsmid-sized firms rather than penalizing them. An empirical analysis of the US pulp and paper (P&P) industry over the period 1970–2000 strongly supports our arguments. This study is particularly relevant for emerging economies, in which natural resource industries represent an important portion of the total economic activity.

Entry‐Timing Advantages in Renewable Natural Resources Industries

AbstractIn this paper, we explore the conditions of entry‐timing advantages in renewable natural resource industries. Drawing from behavioural theory of the firm, we classify firms in two groups depending on the different heuristics used to make entry decisions when facing the cyclical endogenous nature of these industries: crowd firms are procyclical, making decisions based on the current phase of the industry cycle, whereas anti‐crowd firms follow a countercyclical strategy, making uncertain, and risky decisions by estimation of the next phase of the cycle. Therefore, anti‐crowd firms anticipate the deployment of resources each cycle, potentially gaining entry‐timing advantages beyond those provided by traditional competitive isolating mechanisms. Through a mathematical simulation of a performance feedback model, we reveal that the entry‐timing advantage of the anti‐crowd group becomes possible when the rivalry in the industry and the price sensitivity of competitors are high, and when the time required to deploy the resources is short.

Research on Resource Allocation Efficiency of Renewable Resources Listed Companies Based on Malmquist Index

This paper focused on the listed companies of renewable resources industry. Firstly, the paper selected the panel data of 22 listed companies from 2011 to 2016 as samples, and evaluates their efficiency scores by Malmquist Index approach. From the dynamic analysis of the results, the total factor productivity of selected sample companies from 2011 to 2016 increased by 14.3%, among them, technological progress contributes 36.2%, pure technical efficiency improvements contribute -0.3%, and scale efficiency improvements contribute-17.1%.In addition, the growth rate of total factor productivity of the sample companies shows a increasing trend.

Analysis on input-output efficiency of renewable resources industry in Hubei Based on DEA-Malmquist model

Recycling of renewable resources is an important way to promote economic green, cycle and low-carbon development, and to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society. In order to improve the input-output efficiency of renewable resources industry in Hubei Province and realize the effective allocation and scale benefit of renewable resources, this paper selects five input-output indicators, including fixed assets stock, annual average number of employees, number of enterprises, total industrial output value and total profit volume of discarded resources comprehensive utilization industry. Then we use DEA-Malmquist index model to calculate the input-output efficiency of the renewable resources industry in Hubei province from 2009 to 2016. According to the result, we explore the changing trend of production efficiency and the reasons of its change. The conclusion can provide reference for relevant departments to propose strategies for improving efficiency and promoting industrial development.

Calculation of Technical Efficiency of Chinese Renewable Resources Industry and Empirical Study on Its Influence Factors: DEA-Tobit Analysis

This paper collates the respected study of renewable resources industry and measures,applying DEA,the technical efficiency of the renewable resource industry in 17 provinces and cities of China in the past 2010-2015 years.Furthermore,the Tobit regression model is applied to analyze the external factors that influence the pure technical efficiency and the scale efficiency of renewable resources industry.The results show that for pure technical efficiency, renewable resources industry of provinces in Middle East region has the advantage, while,the Midwest provinces’ performed better than the eastern provinces’ in scale efficiency; Pure technical efficiency is positively related to the development of the industry and the service sector,in the contrast,there is no positive impact on it concerning about factors of the development of regional economy, the level of opening up, the level of technological innovation and the level of education;Scale efficiency is positively affected by the regional economic development, the level of opening up,the level of technological innovation,while the level of education, the level of industrial development and the development of the service sector has negative impact on it.

Study on Industry Chain Integration Framework of Renewable Resources Industry

Study on Industry Chain Integration Framework of Renewable Resources Industry

Industrial Performance of the Renewable Resources Industry in China

Promoting the development of renewable resources industry is an effective way to solve the problems of resources shortage and environmental pollution in China. In this paper, studies have found that “market structure” and “ownership structure”, namely “double structure”, is an important explanatory variable that affects industrial performance according to the “structure-conduct-performance” paradigm. Literature reviews have shown that large state-owned enterprises are playing an important role in improving the industrial performance because of the advantage in technology and capital. However, this paper analyzed the performance of China’s renewable resource industry from two aspects—the overall industrial development and the listed companies, from which two conclusions have drawn: (1) Above a designated size, private enterprises have the greatest contribution, while the contribution of state-owned and foreign-funded enterprises is different; (2) The main reason for the high positive growth rate of total factor productivity between 2009 and 2013 is the rapid growth of technological progress such as the improvement of production processes and manufacturing skills, rather than the promotion of management, system, or polices.

Development and Utilization of Circular Economy and Urban Mining - Chengdu City Based Renewable Resource Industry Survey

Along with the process of economic growth and urbanization, China has entered a peak period of electronic appliances and automotive industry products obsolescence. On one hand, municipal waste disposal is increasing and causing environmental pollution and damage; on the other hand, native mineral resources’ exhaustion has increased year by year along with exploitation difficulty and mineral resources import growth. Meanwhile, urban industrial scrap, aka "urban mines", does contain abundant of renewable resources, such as copper, iron, and aluminum. Therefore, based on the theory of circular economy, the exploitation of these "urban mines" is the key strategic industry of China’s "12th five-year plan". This paper is based on the survey of Chengdu city regeneration resources industry situation. We analyzed the current status of regeneration resources recycling industry in Chengdu city, finding problems such as the number of existing garbage collection stations inadequate for renewable resources, and processing technology out of date. Generally speaking, the renewable resources industry in Chengdu is under developed.

Renewable Resources, Environmental Pollution, and International Migration

We develop a two-country model with two industries: the smokestack manufacturing industry, which generates pollution, and the transboundary renewable resource industry. With no trade, migration occurs from the foreign country, with lower manufacturing productivity, to the home country. If the gap in pollution abatement technology, which is superior in the home country, dominates the productivity gap, both countries gain from migration. Under a free trade equilibrium, we also show that if the marginal harvest of the resource industry is lower (higher) than marginal damage of manufacturing in the home (foreign) country, migration still causes positive effects on the stock of renewable resources, which should improve both countries' welfare.

Study on the Informatization of Renewable Resources Industry

As we all know that the renewable resources industry (RRI) is booming in China, while there are many problems too. The paper put forwards that one of the important reason resulting in these problems is that informatization lags behind the RRI informatization process. Asymmetric information and poor communication restricted the development of the RRI. Based on the Characteristics of China’s RRI, The paper analyzes the asymmetric information models in RRI, discusses the information technology experience used in the RRI. Finally, and also, a case of recycling resources information Database system was introduced.

Research on Renewable Resources Industrial Synergy Policy System in China

With the guidance of sustainable development strategy, countries around the world poured to carry out the conception of circular economy into the strategy of protecting ecological environment. As an important mode of circular economy, Renewable Resource Industry increasingly draw every parts of worlds attention. However, the Renewable Resource Industry is a typical Institutional Economy, which needs the role of government as well as the market mechanism. However, Renewable Resources Industry is in the primary stage of development, whose policy system is not thorough and guiding concept is not clear. In this background, guided by the full life cycle theory and collaborative theory, starting from the features and realistic demand of Renewable Resources Industry, the authors structure an industrial synergy policy framework for Renewable Resources Industry, which including design policy, manufacturing policy, consumption policy, recycle policy, demands policy and government policy. The research findings provide us with systematic ideas and methods to make the Renewable Resources Industry policy.

Preparation and characterization of polypropylene composites with nonmetallic materials recycled from printed circuit boards

After separation of metals from printed circuit boards (PCBs), they are sent to recycling process; however, significant amounts of useless nonmetallic particles are also included. Recycling useful materials from used PCBs is a major challenging problem that must be solved in China renewable resource industries through harmless and feasible processes. In this article, a novel β-polypropylene (PP)/nonmetals composite was prepared and evaluated. The nonmetallic particles were treated with calcium pimelate (PA, a β-nucleating agent for PP) and then compounded with PP through melt blending method. The results show that when cooling and crystallizing from the melt, β-PP are formed because of the surface effects of PA. This observation is assumed as the source of good rigidity and toughness of prepared PP composites. In the composite containing 10 wt % nonmetallic particles treated with 5 wt % PA, the content of β-PP was found to be larger than 90% and the impact strength and flexural modulus of PP composite increased by 205.3 and 61.8%, respectively, compared with those of neat PP. Although the addition of PA-modified nonmetals slightly increased the tensile strength of PP, considering all factors, the optimal mass ratio of PP/nonmetals/PA composites to reach optimum mechanical properties was observed as 100/10/0.5. Thus, the application of treated nonmetals to prepare nonmetals/β-PP composites provides a promising way to recycle PCBs waste and produce useful PP composites.

Reverse Logistics Activities for Renewable Resource Industry - A Case of Tianjin in China

The rapid growth in end-of-life electronic products in recent years has seriously threatened the environment. While if the renewable resource industry introduced the concept of modern logistics, they will be the best carrier for the activities of reverse logistics. The paper aimed to find out the way for the renewable resource enterprises taking part in the reverse logistics, and how they could cooperate with the Manufacturing Industrial Park, and then form the Regional Eco-Industrial Park. This research took two typical districts of Tianjin Ziya Environmental Protection Industrial Park and Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area for example to discuss the foundation and the management for the renewable resource industry in Tianjin, and built a closed-loop supply chain for end-of-life electronic products recycling.

The Research on the Coordinate Development of the Renewable Resource Industry Chain Systems Based on Multi-Level Hierarchical Structure

By using the theories and methods of large system, the multi-level hierarchical structure of the renewable resources industry chain is studied and discussed. The constructive measures of the renewable resource industry chain are proposed based on multi-level hierarchical structure. In addition, the plan and design of renewable resources industry chain of a waste recovery company under E-commerce environment is given.

Research on the Recycling Logistics Network Design of Renewable Resources in China

The construction of efficient renewable resource recycling network is the premise of utilizing the enormous renewable resources in city and rural areas. According to the characteristics of renewable resources and the actual recycling conditions in China, the main influence factors of renewable resource recycling logistics network were analyzed Moreover, the guiding principles and general ideas of the construction of renewable resource recycle logistics network were analyzed, and its framework and operation measures were elaborately designed for government management departments and renewable resource machining enterprises to improve the ability of distributed processing of recycling and promote a healthy and orderly development of renewable resource industry.

Triple win for trade in renewable resource goods by use of export taxes

We challenge the free trade paradigm, in particular for developing countries exporting natural resource goods, by demonstrating positive economic and environmental effects of an export tax for renewable resource goods. The two-sector general equilibrium model designed has an open-access renewable resource industry and a manufacturing industry. The economic, environmental and social effects of using an export tax on goods from the open-access renewable resource industry are analysed. It is demonstrated that the gross domestic product, the steady-state resource stock and the domestic consumption of both products increase with the resource export tax compared to free trade with no trade taxes.

BIOMASS - AN IMPORTANT RENEWABLE SOURCE OF ENERGY IN ROMANIA

At the beginning of 3 rd century the humankind finds at a crossroads. Daily, people assist at miracles, live in a time of change, both in economical and rational areas. Energy demand is expected to increase steadily over the next couple of decades, as income levels and economic output expand, especially in the new democratic states after ’90 th . Renewable energy resources represent a new opportunity in Romania, with less participation in the market than those forums outside of the country borders, but with developing perspectives in the future. In present in Romania it doesn’t exist a very well established renewable resources industry, but only small scale projects or developing pilot projects of some developing institutes or small companies could be mentioned. Energy renewable resources capitalization could contribute to achieve some strategic objectives regarding increasing security of energy supplying by diversifying energy resources and reducing of imports, and for a sustainable developing of energetic sector and environment protection. Renewable energy resources from biomass could be o good solution for heating in rural zones. Biomass potential in Romania is expecting to increase in 2005-2010 trough reforestations with various trees species and short term re-afforestation. In this paper the advantages of using biomass for energetical purposes and the technological level achieved by conversion processes of biomass in energetical products are presented.