The development of low-carbon towns in China: Concepts and practices

Liu, Zheng; Chang, Shiyao; Ma, Linwei; Liu, Pei; Zhao, Lingxiao; Yao, Qiufang

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2012.08.045

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“…The development of renewable energy and nuclear power was stimulated by the policies that were targeted to increase the proportion of non-fossil energy in the total primary energy consumption in the 11th Five Year plan [35], which seeks to increase this proportion to 11.4% by 2015 and to reach 15% by 2020 [42].…”

Section: The Influence Of Primary Energy Structurementioning

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Logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition of coal consumption in China based on the energy allocation diagram of coal flows

Chong

et al. 2015

Energy

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Section: The Influence Of Primary Energy Structurementioning

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Logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition of coal consumption in China based on the energy allocation diagram of coal flows

Chong

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“…This is because they are the main drivers of climate change and the essential agents that can profoundly redirect development trajectories. They can also reduce the demand for final urban services [60]. The impetus for macro and microeconomic growth, technological fixes, their interconnectivity with environmental issues, suggests the social dimension is usually overlooked and under-implemented in Chinese literature and practice on LCC [33,61,62].…”

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Sustainability of Low Carbon City Initiatives in China: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Hunter

Sagoe²,

Vettorato

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Low carbon city (LCC) has emerged as the latest sustainable urbanism strategy in China as a response to climate change impacts. Yet, minimal scholarships have explored the sustainability of the urban planning model towards understanding the complexity of the components. Using a two-step triangulation approach, this paper presents a structured overview of the LCC initiative in China as it relates to the transition to a sustainability paradigm. The data collection approach includes a comprehensive review of 238 articles on LCC to identify and categorize LCC components. Furthermore, discourse and framing analysis was used to develop and synthesize a conceptual framework for assimilating the components into four core sustainable development principles: Integration, implementation, equity, and scalability and replicability. The results indicate that LCC development in China is bias towards economic and environmental technological innovations and strategies. Additionally, several critical sustainability issues of LCC pilots were identified. These include a lack of social equity planning concerns for the most vulnerable population, dearth of social reforms that cater to lifestyle and behavioral change, top-down planning and decision-making processes, a technocratic rationalization planning approach, inconsistent LCC targets on inter-generational justice concerns, absence of an effective national "sharing and learning" city-city network system, and several barriers to implementation. We conclude that the applied theoretical and conceptual inquiry into the field of LCC is pertinent to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainable urban development.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4342 2 of 37 consumption [14][15][16][17]. This increasing energy consumption and coal dependency of the urban energy system has increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as China has become the world's largest energy consumer and carbon emitter [18,19]. A recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics [20] suggests that despite a decline in GHG emissions between 2013 and 2016, emissions grew by 2.3% in 2018 due to a surge in urban construction. Therefore, after three decades of rapid physical and socio-spatial modernization, the country is facing significant negative externalities [16]. Local environmental pollution [6,16,[21][22][23], ecological deterioration [24], and energy shortage [21,25] have created health risks [26], have affected people's quality of life [27], and resulted in substantial economic losses [28] in megacities such as Tianjin and Beijing [29]. Concomitantly, China's cities are vulnerable to climate change impacts [17,30], as some cities have inadequate seawall defenses in low-lying areas [5], and are therefore exposed to flooding and extreme rainstorms [23]. In addition to this, some experience droughts from reduced precipitation, which can be attributed to low urban institutional capacity that creates limitations in climate governance and planning [31]. These complex and intractable problems have heralded a call for action, t...

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“…Yu (2005) suggested an 'anti-planning' development path that emphasized the maintaining the integrity of the land and the authenticity of regional landscapes as the basis of urban development. In the new situation of urbanization, the concept of 'low-carbon towns' were proposed these years (Zheng et al 2012).…”

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The inhabited environment, infrastructure development and advanced urbanization in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region

Zhu

Gao

Zhou

et al. 2016

Environ. Res. Lett.

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This paper analyzes the relationship among the inhabited environment, infrastructure development and environmental impacts in China's heavily urbanized Yangtze River Delta region. Using primary human environment data for the period 2006-2014, we examine factors affecting the inhabited environment and infrastructure development: urban population, GDP, built-up area, energy consumption, waste emission, transportation, real estate and urban greenery. Then we empirically investigate the impact of advanced urbanization with consideration of cities' differences. Results from this study show that the growth rate of the inhabited environment and infrastructure development is strongly influenced by regional development structure, functional orientations, traffic network and urban size and form. The effect of advanced urbanization is more significant in large and mid-size cities than huge and mega cities. Energy consumption, waste emission and real estate in large and midsize cities developed at an unprecedented rate with the rapid increase of economy. However, urban development of huge and mega cities gradually tended to be saturated. The transition development in these cities improved the inhabited environment and ecological protection instead of the urban construction simply. To maintain a sustainable advanced urbanization process, policy implications included urban sprawl control polices, ecological development mechanisms and reforming the economic structure for huge and mega cities, and construct major cross-regional infrastructure, enhance the carrying capacity and improvement of energy efficiency and structure for large and midsize cities.

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The development of low-carbon towns in China: Concepts and practices

Cited by 45 publications

References 9 publications

Logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition of coal consumption in China based on the energy allocation diagram of coal flows

Logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition of coal consumption in China based on the energy allocation diagram of coal flows

Sustainability of Low Carbon City Initiatives in China: A Comprehensive Literature Review

The inhabited environment, infrastructure development and advanced urbanization in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region

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