China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice

Liu, Chen, LI, Song, GAO, Kun, WANG, Jun, Wang, Mingquan, Huang, Weiguang

This book is based on multidisciplinary research focusing on low-carbon healthy city planning, policy and assessment. This includes city-development strategy, energy, environment, healthy, land-use, transportation, infrastructure, information and other related subjects. This book begins with the current status and problems of low-carbon healthy city development in China. It then introduces the global experience of different regions and different policy trends, focusing on individual cases. Finally, the book opens a discussion of Chinese low-carbon healthy city development from planning and design, infrastructure and technology assessment-system perspectives. It presents a case study including the theory and methodology to support the unit city theory for low-carbon healthy cities. The book lists the ranking of China’s 269 high-level cities, with economic, environmental, resource, construction, transportation and health indexes as an assessment for creating a low-carbon healthy future. The book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of building low-carbon healthy cities in China.  

EAN

9783662569764

Publisher

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K

Published

25 April 2018

Pages

216