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Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management
António Mendes Lopes (editor), Jiazhong Zhang(editor)
António Mendes Lopes (editor)

University of Porto, Portugal

Email: aml@fe.up.pt

Jiazhong Zhang (editor)

School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710049, China

Fax: +86 29 82668723 Email: jzzhang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Measuring energy security—An urban perspective

Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management 1(2) (2013) 119--128 | DOI:10.5890/JEAM.2013.05.002

Jin Yang; Bin Chen

State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

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Abstract

Due to concurrent crises of energy and environment in urban areas, a systematic evaluation of urban energy security status is needed to construct a resource-saving and environmental-friendly society. This paper established an evaluation framework from the perspectives of energy supply, energy consumption, social-economic condition, environmental impact, and climate change. A modified grey relational analysis was also proposed to quantify the energy security degree of a city. The framework was then applied to Chongqing City to evaluate its energy security status during 2005—2010. Results showed that the security level of Chongqing kept increasing from 2005 to 2009. Due to the low energy security coefficient of the energy supply and climate change subsystem, a dramatic decline of energy security degree was observed in 2010. Finally, suggestions on the construction of secure energy system in Chongqing were put forward to shed light on policy making.

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation (No. 50939001), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-09-0226), National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2009AA06A419) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41101564).

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