التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Low-carbon Frontier: Renewable Energy and the New Resource Boom in Western China. |
| المؤلفون: |
Harlan, Tyler1 (AUTHOR) tyler.harlan@lmu.edu |
| المصدر: |
China Quarterly. Sep2023, Vol. 255, p591-610. 20p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*RENEWABLE energy sources, *SUSTAINABLE development, *ENERGY infrastructure, *WATER power |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
CHINA |
| Abstract (English): |
China's west has long been framed as an undeveloped frontier, set apart by poverty and a resource-based economy. Since the 2000s, however, utility-scale renewable energy infrastructure has expanded rapidly in western China, promising local economic benefits tied to national low-carbon transition. This paper contends that these benefits have been precarious and unevenly distributed. I argue that utility-scale renewable energy has remade western China as a "low-carbon frontier," a resource-rich region that generates low-carbon value for the national green economy. I highlight three features of low-carbon frontiers: they are constructed as spaces of exploitable low-carbon resources, creating an investment boom; they are enclosed through new land arrangements and infrastructure construction, rapidly and with little coordination; and they are reliant on external markets and policy decisions, entrenching dependency. These conditions make it difficult for frontier regions to capture sustained economic development benefits from the boom in the absence of persistent central state supports. I analyse these features by comparing two sets of technologies with similar, but ultimately diverging, trajectories: small and large hydropower in China's south-west, and solar and wind in the north-west. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Chinese): |
长期以来，中国西部一直被视为一个不发达的边疆，因贫困和资源型经济而与众不同。然而，自 2000 年代以来，公用事业规模的可再生能源基础设施在中国西部迅速扩张，有望实现与国家低碳转型相关的地方经济效益。本文认为，这些好处是不稳定的并且分布不均。我认为，公用事业规模的可再生能源已将中国西部重塑为低碳边疆，一个资源丰富的地区，为国家绿色经济创造低碳价值。我强调了低碳边疆的三个特征：它们被构建为可开发的低碳资源空间，创造了投资热潮；它们是通过新的土地安排和基础设施建设迅速和几乎没有协调的；并且他们依赖外部市场和政策决定，从而加深了依赖。这些条件使得边境地区在没有中央政府持续支持的情况下难以从繁荣中获得持续的经济发展利益。我通过比较两组具有相似但最终不同的轨迹的技术来分析这些特征：中国西南地区的小型和大型水电，以及西北地区的太阳能和风能。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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