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A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

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Prof. Dr. Seoyong Kim

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Department of Public Administration, Ajou University, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea
Interests: risk perception; environmentalism; climate change; energy transition; human action and behavior; energy preference; psychometric paradigm; environmental assessment; public understanding of science; environmental justice; cultural theory
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Prof. Dr. Jaesun Wang

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Department of Public Administration, Honam University, Gwangju 62399, Korea
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Dr. Chang-Gyu Kwak

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Department of Public Administration, Sejong University, Seoul 100-011, Korea
Interests: energy policy; local government relations; public administration; public policy; sustainability

Dr. Jongsoo Park

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Graduate School of Public Administration, Korea University, Seoul 100-011, Korea
Interests: organization theory and behavior; public and nonprofit management; human resource management; diversity management; collaborative networks/inter-organization relationships

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Dear Colleagues,

Climate change, resource crisis, and environmental pollution are demanding new directions for energy policy. In many countries around the world, there is a shift from traditional fossil fuels to renewable energies such as solar, wind, and bio. This shift to new energy requires not only technological change but also social, economic, political, and policy changes. In the technical aspect, it is necessary to upgrade the various technologies for new energy, which leads to an increase in technological demand for more efficient and smarter energy system development. On the economic side, it calls for changes in new price policies based on the supply and demand principles in an energy market. On the social side, it calls for changes in the behavior of individuals, consumers of energy. In addition, from a political point of view, it demands an ideological basis for supporting eco-friendly energy sources. On the policy side, there is a need for changes in laws and regulations for new energy systems that go beyond the present interest, investment costs, and path dependence.

It is not only new energy that changes the world, but also good theories policies for it. This Special Issue will cover a wide range of topics related to the direction of the new energy policy. This issue deals with various research theoretical and practical topics about social, economic, political, and policy dimensions of a new direction for energy. The level of analysis will not only cover individual, group, corporate, and national levels but also move across these levels. We also welcome normative and philosophical research topics as well as empirical topics.

Prof. Seoyong Kim
Prof. Jaesun Wang
Dr. Chang-Gyu Kwak
Dr. Jongsoo Park
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- Renewable energy
- Sustainable energy
- Nuclear power
- Fossil fuels
- Solar energy
- Energy efficiency
- Attitude and behavioral change
- Public opinion
- Energy supply and demand
- Affordable energy
- Energy tax and price
- Energy regulation policy
- Energy transition
- Decarbonization
- Innovation
- Electric car
- Safety
- Risk perception
- Environmental suitability
- Health
- Hydrogen/power storage/distributed energy
- Heat and transportation
- Social economy
- Technology/governance reform
- Energy industry
- The Energy Cooperative

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Effect of Chinese Corporate Average Fuel Consumption and New Energy Vehicle Dual-Credit Regulation on Passenger Cars Average Fuel Consumption Analysis

by Haoyi Zhang, Fuquan Zhao, Han Hao and Zongwei Liu

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(14), 7218; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147218 - 6 Jul 2021

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The large sales volume and a great number of passenger car ownership in China have brought a series of environmental and energy problems. In response to these problems, Corporate Average Fuel Consumption and New Energy Vehicle Dual-credit Regulation has been put forward in China. However, it is found that although the purpose of the Dual-credit Regulation is controlling the fuel consumption and promoting the development of the energy vehicle market, the fuel consumption restriction for fossil-fueled passenger cars is relaxed compared to CAFC (Corporate Average Fuel Consumption) regulation alone. Moreover, this effect of relaxation is more obvious when the market share of new energy vehicles increases. To quantitatively estimate the relaxation effect of the fuel consumption restriction, a method of quantifying the relaxation effect is designed, and three different scenarios of new energy vehicle market development have been presumed in this paper. It is found that there are three main factors related to new energy vehicles that cause the relaxation of fuel consumption restriction, and the effect might become obvious and severe after 2025 if the market share of new energy vehicles develops very rapidly. These results may affect the development of the automotive industry and needed to be concerned. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Directions for Energy Policy)

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Stock Market Liberalization and Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence from China

by Yuming Zhang, Juanjuan Zhang and Zhang Cheng

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(7), 3412; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073412 - 25 Mar 2021

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Corporate green innovation is an effective way to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. Enterprises’ willingness to pursue green innovation is increasingly affected by external factors. By using a quasi-natural experiment of China’s Stock Connect program, we investigate the impact of stock market liberalization on corporate green innovation. We find that stock market liberalization increases enterprises’ green innovation, especially for state-owned enterprises. We also find that stock market liberalization plays a stronger role in promoting the green invention patents of enterprises whose managers have overseas experience and enterprises in areas with a higher degree of openness. Our mechanism analysis suggests that stock market liberalization attracts the attention of securities analysts and increases managers’ focus on environmental protection, thereby promoting corporate green innovation. Our findings show that stock market liberalization plays an important role in the governance of firms’ non-financial behavior, which has important theoretical and practical implications. Full article

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Impacts of the New Worldwide Light-Duty Test Procedure on Technology Effectiveness and China’s Passenger Vehicle Fuel Consumption Regulations

by Kangda Chen, Fuquan Zhao, Xinglong Liu, Han Hao and Zongwei Liu

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(6), 3199; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18063199 - 19 Mar 2021

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As a main measure to promote the development of China’s energy–saving and new energy vehicles, the Phase V fuel consumption regulation is dramatically different from the past four phases, especially in the test procedure, moving from the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC) to the worldwide harmonized light duty test cycle (WLTC) and corresponding test procedure (WLTP). The switch of test procedure will not only affect the effectiveness of technologies but also change the fuel consumption target of the industry. However, few studies have systematically investigated the impacts of the new WLTP on the Chinese market. This study establishes a “technology–vehicle–fleet” bottom–up framework to estimate the impacts of test procedure switching on technology effectiveness and regulation stringency. The results show that due to the WLTP being closer to the real driving condition and more stringent, almost all baseline vehicles in the WLTP have higher fuel consumption than that in the NEDC, and diesel vehicles are slightly more impacted than gasoline vehicles. In addition, the impacts are increased with the strengthening of electrification, where the fuel consumption of plug–in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and range-extended electric vehicles (REEVs) in the WLTP are about 6% higher than that in the NEDC. Engine technologies that gain higher effects in low load conditions, such as turbocharging and downsizing, fuel stratified injection (FSI), lean–burn, and variable valve timing (VVT), are faced with deterioration in the WLTP. Among these, the effect of turbocharging and downsizing shows a maximum decline of 8.5%. The variable compression ratio (VCR) and stoichiometric gasoline direct injection (SGDI) are among the few technologies that benefited from procedure switching, with an average improvement of 1.6% and 0.2% respectively. Except for multi–speed transmissions, which have improvement effects in the WLTP, all automatic transmissions are faced with decreases. From the perspective of the whole fleet and national regulation target, the average fuel consumption in the WLTP will increase by about 7.5% in 2025 compared to 4 L/100 km in the NEDC. According to the current planning of the Chinese government, the fuel consumption target of Phase V is set at 4.6 L/100 km in 2025, which is equivalent to loosening the stringency by 0.3 L/100 km. In Phase VI, the target of 3.2 L/100 km is maintained, which is 30.4% stricter than that of Phase V, and the annual compound tightening rate reaches 7.5%. This means that automakers need to launch their product planning as soon as possible and expand the technology bandwidth to comply with the Phase VI fuel consumption regulation, and the government should evaluate the technical feasibility before determining the evaluation methods and targets of the next phase. Full article

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Idea Generation and New Direction for Exploitation Technologies of Coal-Seam Gas through Recombinative Innovation and Patent Analysis

by Lijie Feng, Yilang Li, Zhenfeng Liu and Jinfeng Wang

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(8), 2928; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17082928 - 23 Apr 2020

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Coal-seam gas (CSG), as an alternative energy, has the characteristics of resource scarcity and technological exploitation complexity. The generation of ideas is vital to develop more efficient exploitation technologies for CSG. Innovative ideas originate from the recombination of existing knowledge elements according to recombinative innovation. The previous literature has focused on exploring an abundance of combinations, which leads to blindness towards idea generation. For this reason, it is critical to search for more valuable matching patterns among the redundant combinations of elements. In line with this concept, this paper proposes a method that consists of three phases: the collection of knowledge elements, the analysis of knowledge element depth and diversity, and the analysis of knowledge element relationships. In this process, we take the patent document as the carrier of knowledge recombination and identify the optimization method in the reorganization process by means of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and association rules. This method is expected to assist in sparking better ideas for CSG exploitation technologies. Full article

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