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ToolsLiao, Xiawei, Chai, Li, Ji, Junping, Mi, Zhifu, Guan, Dabo and Zhao, Xu (2019) Life-cycle water uses for energy consumption of Chinese households from 2002 to 2015. Journal of Environmental Management, 231. pp. 989-995. ISSN 0301-4797
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Abstract
China's household energy demands' life-cycle water uses from 2002 to 2015 are quantified with an Input-Output analysis disaggregating rural and urban impacts. 9.73 and 1.60 km3 of water was withdrawn and consumed respectively in the life cycle of Chinese household energy demands in 2015, which was dominated by power and heat uses. An average urbanite's household energy uses, including coal, gas, petroleum products, power and heat, require about four times of life-cycle water uses than its rural counterpart. Among all upstream sectors, while agricultural sectors accounted for the largest shares for all energy uses, oil and gas extraction made significant contributions to petroleum products and gas consumption. A Structural Decomposition Analysis is conducted to disentangle the impacts of four driving factors, i.e. population, demand, economic structure and technology. Population change reduced energy consumption's life-cycle water use for rural households but increased that for urban households. Each economic sector's water intensity decreases, which represent technology advancement, played the dominant role curbing household energy consumption's life-cycle water uses. While power and heat dominates the household energy use profile, urbanization is accompanied by household consumption shifting from coal to gas and petroleum products. In order to reduce household energy consumption's impacts and reliance on water resources, it is imperative to reduce energy production'swater use by adopting water-saving technologies, such as air cooling, as well as to reduce upstream sectors' water intensities, such as by promoting drip irrigation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy,sdg 11 - sustainable cities and communities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jan 2019 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 04:25 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69669 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.10.109 |
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