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A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 4233

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Dr. Xinlong Xu

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Associate Professor, College of Tourism, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
Interests: energy and environmental economics; energy efficiency; sustainable development; resources economic risk; environmental risk
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Dr. Yu Chen

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Associate Professor, School of Economics, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430060, China
Interests: development economics; energy economics and policy; green finance

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Dear Colleagues,

The rapid development of the social economy is accompanied by the continuous growth of energy demand, such as in the heavy industry, agriculture sector, and tourism sector. Meanwhile, the large-scale energy consumption in the short term has increased the risk to the energy supply and ecological safety. This has contributed to the exploration and exploitation of energy supply risk management, carbon emission reduction, and renewable energy technological innovation, aiming to solve the bottlenecks in energy and environmental economics.

This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the theory, design, modelling, and application of all types of energy and environmental economics.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

All aspects of energy and environmental economics;
Energy and environmental application in industries such as agriculture and tourism sector;
Energy supply chain management;
Energy economic risks;
Sustainable development;
Big-data analytics in energy economics;
Energy finance and investment;
Environmental governance;
Financing de-carbonization in cities or regions;
Pathways to carbon neutral;
Renewable energy technological innovation;
Energy efficiency and rebound effects.

Dr. Xinlong Xu
Dr. Yu Chen
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energy economics
energy efficiency
energy risk
environment sustainable development
tourism carbon emission

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Energy Literacy of Residents in Rural Communities: Comparison of Tourism and Non-Tourism Villages

by Huan Sun, Shaofeng Wu and Bolun Zhang

Energies 2023, 16(20), 7135; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16207135 - 18 Oct 2023

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Energy is an essential topic owing to the severe environmental problems faced worldwide, especially in underdeveloped rural areas. Energy literacy is closely related to energy consumption and conservation behaviors in daily life. Although the energy attitudes and behaviors of communities can determine the sustainable development of rural tourism, less attention has been paid to the energy literacy of rural communities. This study adopted a measurable scale to compare the energy literacy levels between 188 questionnaires from rural residents in tourism communities and 195 questionnaires from non-tourism communities both in the Jizhou District, China. A theoretical model was constructed to investigate the relationships between the variables. Additionally, this study verified the influence of rural tourism activities on communities’ energy literacy by comparing different villages. The results showed that rural communities have high levels of energy literacy in the knowledge, attitude, and behavioral sectors. Positive relationships between knowledge and attitude and between attitudes and behaviors were estimated. However, the positive impact of knowledge on behavior was inconspicuous. The most important theoretical contribution of this study is the confirmation of the significant differences in energy literacy between traditional and rural tourism destination communities, thus proving the improvement in communities’ energy literacy induced by tourism development. Finally, this study presents practical implications for policymakers. Full article

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The Impact of Renewable Energy Consumption on Environmental Quality in Central European Countries: The Mediating Role of Digitalization and Financial Development

by Bartosz Jóźwik, Mesut Doğan and Samet Gürsoy

Energies 2023, 16(20), 7041; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16207041 - 11 Oct 2023

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Green initiatives and digital transitions in Central European countries are catalyzing significant transformations within the region’s socio-economic landscape, embedding contemporary technologies into daily life and commercial activities. Consequently, this fosters improved environmental quality through sustainable practices. This research unravels the complex interplay between renewable energy consumption, digitalization, and financial development in various national contexts, providing key insights into their respective and collective impacts on environmental quality. This study investigates the relationship among environmental quality, digitalization, renewable energy consumption, financial development, and economic growth in Central European countries, analyzing data from 1995 to 2019. An analysis of the panel data reveals a statistically significant positive relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions, and a negative relationship among digitalization, renewable energy consumption, and carbon emissions. In Central European nations, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, and Slovakia, digitalization serves a mediating role in the relationship between renewable energy consumption and environmental quality. However, the role of financial development as a mediator between renewable energy consumption and environmental quality manifests varied impacts across different countries. These findings hold the potential to guide policy recommendations for the countries under consideration. Full article

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Green Fiscal Policy and ESG Performance: Evidence from the Energy-Saving and Emission-Reduction Policy in China

by Shan Miao, Yandi Tuo, Xi Zhang and Xiang Hou

Energies 2023, 16(9), 3667; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16093667 - 24 Apr 2023

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To achieve the goal of sustainable development, China has implemented the energy conservation and emission-reduction policy. So far, there is still little evidence of the impact of the policiy on corporate behaviour. Therefore, this study collects data on Chinese A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2017 and applies the staggered difference-in-differences method to analyse the impact of the energy conservation and emission-reduction policy on the environmental, social and governance performance of companies in China. The result shows that the energy conservation and emission-reduction policy reduces environmental, social and governance performance, and this negative effect increases over time. Meanwhile, a further mechanism analysis confirms that the negative impact on environmental, social and governance performance operates through the incentive effect on environmental performance, the crowding-out effect on social performance and the spillover effect on governance performance. Furthermore, the negative effect is heterogeneous across companies and cities. Overall, our results provide empirical evidence for optimising energy conservation and emission-reduction policies in developing countries. Full article

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