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Chapter 1 Research Background and Main Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics of Questionnaire Data -- Chapter 3 Methods for Estimating Residential Energy Consumption -- Chapter 4 Analysis and Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption -- Chapter 5 International Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption Surveys -- Chapter 6 Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption in Urban and Rural Areas -- Chapter 7 Household Appliance Ownership and Income Inequality -- Chapter 8 Rural Resident's Choice of Water heater in China -- Chapter 9 Does Air Pollution Reduce Residents' Happiness -- Chapter 10 Study of Residential Demand-Side Management

As parts of an ongoing reflection on the tongzhi (roughly equivalent to lesbian/gay/queer, hereafter abbreviated as l/g/q) developments in Taiwan, three critical theses are put forward in this essay. The first is a historical understanding of the excitingly prosperous l/g/q emergence in the 1990s. I offer here a contextual analysis which views this phenomenal rise as the amplified effects of what I call a 'self-enlightening' process pursued by the mainstream society since the democratization process started in the late 1980s. Yet as fortunate as it seems, this coincidence also dictated the specific form the l/g/q movement has taken as well as caused its apparent 'cool-off' near the year 2000. The second is the follow-up critical observation, along the line already mapped out, on the latest change of direction – i.e. what I call the 'civic turn' of the l/g/q movement since 2000. This in effect further proves my thesis put forth in the first section and also points at a general perspective on the relative strength (or lack of it) of the Taiwan society versus political power. At the end, O distinguish the l/g/q civil movement in Taiwan from its US counterpart by showing the local transformations of this largely imported discourse with the purpose of providing a glocal comparative framework. To further demonstrate the glocal difference, I also anticipate the historical significance of this new phase of development itself as well as for Taiwan in general.

China's economic reform over the past 30 years has allowed the free market to drive economic development. However, government still plays a key role in the energy sector by allocating energy conservation and emissions abatement. How does the government make an equity decision as a tradeoff to market efficiency? This is an unanswered question. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the government's preference toward equity and efficiency. Using the provincial level CO2 intensity allocation data, we investigate the political decision that the government made based on the equity and efficiency criteria. We find that the equity index plays a more important role than the efficiency index in determining the CO2 intensity target. In addition, political factors such as social stability are found to be important factors.