Challenges of China’s sustainability : integrating energy, environment and health policies.

Summary In order to address the interrelated challenges of energy resource depletion, environmental degradation, and public health concerns in the Chinese context in response to sustainable development, we focus on the study of energy, environment, and health policies in China. In Chapter 1, we provide an overview of China's energy, environment, and health policies over the past 20 years to learn about future policy directions that the government has not given sufficient attention. In the following three chapters, we propose a series of empirical studies to draw some useful policy implications. In chapter 2, we study the impact of urbanization, industrial structure adjustment, energy price, and export on aggregate and disaggregated energy intensities of provinces. In Chapter 3, we investigate the factors that explain the energy transition to clean fuels of rural households. In Chapter 4, we examine the joint effects of environmental risks, individual income, health policies on the health status of Chinese adults. In particular, our empirical results suggest integrating urban development into the energy conservation strategy. considering complex substitutions/complementarities among energy sources and between energy and food for rural households. aligning environmental, energy and food policies with health policies.