Intro -- Introduction of the Main Editors -- Preface -- Abstract -- Contents -- Part I: Theory and Methodology -- Chapter 1: Global Environmental Issues and Human Wellbeing -- 1.1 Key Global Environmental Problems -- 1.1.1 Global Warming -- 1.1.2 Ozone Depletion and Destruction -- 1.1.3 Sharp Decrease of Forest Cover -- 1.1.4 Declining of Biological Diversity -- 1.1.5 Acid Rain Pollution -- 1.1.6 Land Desertification -- 1.1.7 Marine Pollution and Damage -- 1.1.8 Water Pollution and Freshwater Resource Shortage -- 1.1.9 Toxic Chemical Pollution and Cross-Border Transfer of Dangerous Waste -- 1.2 Influencing Factors of Global Environmental Issues -- 1.2.1 Economic and System Influence -- 1.2.2 Influence from Population and Society -- 1.2.3 Influence from Cultural Tradition and Ethnic Consciousness -- 1.2.4 Influence from Alienation of Science and Technology -- 1.3 Global Ecological Environment and Human Wellbeing -- 1.4 Hard Exploration in Global Environmental Protection -- 1.5 Enhancing Environmental Protection as a Common Understanding -- Chapter 2: Theoretical and Reality Basis of GEC Research -- 2.1 Theoretical Basis of GEC -- 2.1.1 GEC Is a Key Component of Environmental Economic System -- 2.1.2 GEC Supplemented and Developed Environmental Economic Theories -- 2.1.3 GEC Is the Continuation and Deepening of Competitiveness Theory -- 2.1.4 GEC Is the Ability for Sustainable Development Worldwide -- 2.2 Reality Basis of GEC -- 2.2.1 Enhancing GEC Is Related to Human Survival and Development -- 2.2.2 Enhancing GEC Is a Definite Requirement of Combat Against Climate Change -- 2.2.3 Enhancing GEC Is the Key Part of Enhancing the Comprehensive Competitiveness -- 2.2.4 Enhancing GEC Is a Practical Choice to Realize Sustainable Development -- 2.2.5 Enhancing GEC Is an Innovation to Overcome the Limitation of Environment Related Theories in Practice.

Chapter 3: Main GEC Research Contents -- 3.1 Understanding of Relation Between Environment and Economy -- 3.1.1 Understanding of the Relation Between Environment and Economy Before the Industrial Revolution -- 3.1.2 Understanding of the Relation Between Environment and Economy After the Industrial Revolution -- 3.1.3 Understanding of the Relation Between Environment and Economy Since the 1960s -- 3.2 Environment and Competitiveness Relevance Analysis -- 3.2.1 Equivalence Theory: Environment Is Competitiveness -- 3.2.2 Element Theory: Environment Is a Component Element of Competitiveness -- 3.2.3 Influence Theory: Environmental Protection Influence Competitiveness -- 3.2.4 Summary: Environmental Competitiveness Is an Integrated Concept -- 3.3 Economic Transition and Environmental Competitiveness Promotion Coupling Analysis -- 3.3.1 Green Economic Transition Is the Common Choice of the World -- 3.3.2 Greatly Enhance the Competitiveness of the Environment Is an Important Breakthrough in Economic Transformation -- 3.3.3 Enhance Environmental Competitiveness Coupled and Consistent with Economic Transformation -- 3.3.4 Empirical Analysis on Consistency of Environmental Competitiveness Enhancement and Economic Transformation -- 3.4 Connotations of GEC -- 3.4.1 Concept of GEC -- 3.4.2 Connotations of GEC -- 3.5 Compositions of GEC -- 3.5.1 Component Elements of GEC and Their Functions -- 3.5.1.1 Ecological Environmental Competitiveness (EEC) -- 3.5.1.2 Resource Environmental Competitiveness (REC) -- 3.5.1.3 Environment Carrying Competitiveness (ECC) -- 3.5.1.4 Environmental Management Competitiveness (EMC) -- 3.5.1.5 Environment Harmony Competitiveness (EHC) -- 3.5.2 Internal Relations of GEC Elements -- Chapter 4: GEC Indicator System/Mathematical Model Design &amp -- Evaluation Methodology -- 4.1 Features and Principles of Design.

4.1.1 Composition and Characteristics of GEC -- 4.1.2 Principles of Constructing GEC Indicator System and Mathematical Model -- 4.1.3 Overall Coordination of Relationship Between the Principles -- 4.2 Construction of GEC Indicator System -- 4.2.1 Methodology -- 4.2.2 Selection of Indicators in System Layer and Module Layer -- 4.2.3 Selection of Indicators in Factor Layer -- 4.2.4 Selection of Indicators in Foundation Layer and Description -- 4.3 Construction of GEC Model Based on Modified AHP -- 4.3.1 Dimensionless Treatment to Indicators -- 4.3.2 Assessment of Indicator Weight -- 4.3.3 Establishment of GEC Model -- 4.4 Method of Determining GEC -- 4.4.1 Definition of GEC Evaluation Period and Area Coverage -- 4.4.2 Indicator Ranking Sections -- 4.4.3 Analysis of Indicator Scores -- Chapter 5: Technical Roadmap of GEC Evaluation &amp -- Analysis -- 5.1 General Research Organization and Contents -- 5.1.1 Research Framework -- 5.2 GEC Indicators Selection and Data Source -- 5.2.1 Selection of Indicators -- 5.2.2 Data Collection, Statistics and Calculation -- 5.2.3 Data Extreme Value Analysis -- 5.3 GEC Indicator System Correlation Analysis -- Appendix I: Indicators in Foundation Layer and Description -- Resource Environmental Competitiveness (REC) -- Land Resource -- Land Area per Capita -- Percentage of Arable Land to Total Land Area -- Arable Land per Capita -- Water Resource -- Surface Water -- Annual Precipitation -- Groundwater -- Total Internal Renewable Water Resources -- Forest Resource -- Growing Stock in Forest and Other Wooded Land -- Proportion of Land Area Covered by Forest -- Forest Area per Capita -- Energy Resource -- Fossil Energy -- Energy Production -- Proportion of Combustible Renewables and Waste to Total Energy Consumption -- Net Energy Imports of the Energy Consumption -- Ecological Environmental Competitiveness (EEC).

Biodiversity -- Increase of Threatened Fish Species -- Increase of Threatened Mammal Species -- Increase of Threatened Plant Species -- GEF Benefits Index for Biodiversity -- Ecological Safeguard -- Terrestrial Protected Areas -- Marine Protected Areas -- Air Quality -- Inhalable Particles Matter (PM10) -- Particulate Matter (PM2.5) -- Index of Indoor Air Pollution -- Nitrogen Oxides Emission -- Sulfur Dioxide Emission -- Environmental Carrying Competitiveness (ECC) -- Agricultural Carrying -- Cereal Yield per Unit of Arable Land -- Fertilizer Consumption per Unit of Arable Land -- Annual Freshwater Withdrawals for Agriculture per Unit of Arable Land -- Industrial Carrying -- Exports as a Percentage of GDP -- Electric Power Consumption per Unit of Value Added of Industry -- SO 2 Emissions per Unit of Value Added of Industry -- Annual Freshwater Withdrawals for Industry per Value Added of Industry -- Energy Consumption -- Energy Consumption per Unit of Land Area -- Ratio of Clean Energy Consumption -- Elasticity of Energy Consumption -- Elasticity of Electric Power Consumption -- Greenhouse Gases -- Growth Rate of CO 2 Emissions -- Growth Rate of Methane Emissions -- CO 2 Emissions per Unit of Land Area -- CO 2 Emissions per Unit of Energy Consumption -- Environmental Management Competitiveness (EMC) -- Environmental Governance -- Agricultural Chemicals Regulation -- Percentage of the Rural Population with Access to an Improved Water Source to Rural Population -- Percentage of the Urban Population with Access to an Improved Water Source to Urban Population -- Ecological Protection -- Biome Protect -- Area of Plantation and Afforestation -- Overfishing of Fishing Resources -- Resource Utilization Resources -- Utilization Rate of Water -- Percentage of Total Internal Renewable Water Resources to Total Water Resources.

Percentage of Agricultural Land to Total Land Area -- Percentage of Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption to Total Energy Consumption -- Environmental Harmony Competitiveness (EHC) -- Population and Environment -- Improved Sanitation Facilities (% of Population with Access) -- Motor Vehicles (per 1,000 People) -- Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita -- SO 2 Emissions (metric tons per capita) -- CO 2 Emissions (metric tons per capita) -- Energy Consumption per Capita -- Economy and Environment -- Land Resource Utilization Efficiency -- Sulfur Dioxide Emissions per Unit of GDP -- Carbon Dioxide Emissions per Unit of GDP -- Energy Consumption per Unit of GDP -- Part II: General Report -- Chapter 6: Overall Evaluation and Comparative Analysis on GEC -- 6.1 Overall Evaluation of GEC -- 6.1.1 GEC Evaluation Results -- 6.1.1.1 GEC Comprehensive Ranking -- 6.1.1.2 Overall GEC Scores -- 6.1.2 GEC Factor Scores and Contribution Rate -- 6.1.3 GEC Echelon Scores -- Chapter 7: Regional Analysis of GEC -- 7.1 Balance Analysis of GEC -- 7.2 Regional Evaluation and Analysis of GEC -- 7.3 Special Evaluation &amp -- Analysis on Regional Environment Competitiveness -- 7.3.1 Evaluation and Analysis on Asia's GEC -- 7.3.1.1 General Analysis on the GEC of Asian Countries -- 7.3.1.2 Present Status and Trends of Environment Competitiveness: Major Asian Countries -- 7.3.2 Evaluation and Analysis on Europe's GEC -- 7.3.2.1 General Analysis on the GEC of European Countries -- 7.3.2.2 Present Status and Trends of Environment Competitiveness: Major European Countries -- 7.3.3 Evaluation and Analysis on Africa's GEC -- 7.3.3.1 General Analysis on the GEC of African Countries -- 7.3.3.2 Present Status and Trends of Environment Competitiveness: Major African Countries -- 7.3.4 Evaluation and Analysis on Oceania's GEC.

7.3.4.1 General Analysis on Environment Competitiveness of Oceanian Countries.

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