Measuring Urban Low-Carbon Sustainability in Four Chinese Cities

Low-Carbon Development Patterns: Observations of Typical Chinese Cities

Threatened by the huge pressure caused by climate change, low-carbon cities have become an inevitable part of urban evolution. It is essential to evaluate urban low-carbon development levels to smoothly promote the construction of low-carbon cities. This paper proposes an evaluation index system for urban low-carbon development from the points of view of economic development and social progress...

Ground-level ozone in four Chinese cities

L. K. Xue, T. Wang, J. Gao, A. J. Ding, X. H. Zhou, D. R. Blake, X. F. Wang, S. M. Saunders, S. J. Fan, H. C. Zuo, Q. Z. Zhang, and W. X. Wang Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Ji’nan, Shandong, China Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China Institut...

The carbon emissions of Chinese cities

As increasing urbanization has become a national policy priority for economic growth in China, cities have become important players in efforts to reduce carbon emissions. However, their efforts have been hampered by the lack of specific and comparable carbon emission inventories. Comprehensive carbon emission inventories for twelve Chinese cities, which present both a relatively current snapsho...

Green Cities, the Search for Sustainability, and Urban Environmental History

Nature-Based Solutions Accelerating Urban Sustainability Transitions in Cities: Lessons from Dresden, Genk and Stockholm Cities

Nature based solutions are amongst other practices that transition initiatives work with when intervening in their place and change its fabric. Focusing on the actors establishing, driving and scaling these solutions in and across cities, we come to evince that nature-based solutions have transformative social impact since they mediate new social relations and new social configurations contribu...