Decoupling Analysis of China''s Resource Consumption and Economic Growth over the Period 1998-2008
中国1998 年-2008 年资源消耗与经济增长的脱钩分析

Decoupling resource consumption from economic growth is an effective way of fundamentally improving environmental quality.Material flow analysis(MFA) has emerged as an important approach to quantifying and monitoring human use of natural resources.In this study,we compiled the amount of China's domestic material consumption(DMC) for the resources of biomass,metal ores,non-metal ores and fossil fuels over the period 1998-2008 using the method of MFA.Then,we applied the decoupling indicator for resource consu...