Mix and match: Configuring different types of policy instruments to develop successful low carbon cities in China

Ma, Wenting; Jong, Martin de; Bruijne, Mark de; Mu, Rui

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125399

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“…Some studies also pointed out that the real estate development in Hainan Island is currently facing a transition period [91], and it is crucial to make good use of the policy orientation. Secondly, some studies have shown that enhancing the complexity of land use and land cover functions can help increase carbon storage in built-up land, such as productive cities [92,93]. Considering the favourable precipitation and temperature conditions of Hainan Island [94], it may be feasible to implement such planning in built-up land.…”

Section: Strategies For Optimising Lulc Structure To Balance Economic...mentioning

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Assessment and Prediction of Carbon Storage Based on Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Tropics: A Case Study of Hainan Island, China

Liu

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Cao

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Land use and land cover (LULC) change in tropical regions can cause huge amounts of carbon loss and storage, thus significantly affecting the global climate. Due to the differences in natural and social conditions between regions, it is necessary to explore the correlation mechanism between LULC and carbon storage changes in tropical regions from a broader geographical perspective. This paper takes Hainan Island as the research object, through the integration of the CA-Markov and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) models, based on multi-source data, analyses the dynamics of LULC and carbon storage from 1992 to 2019 and the relationship between the two, and predicts future LULC and carbon storage under different scenarios. The results show that (1) the built-up land area of Hainan Island expanded from 103.59 km2 to 574.83 km2 from 1992 to 2019, an increase of 454.91%; the area of cropland and shrubland decreased; and the area of forest increased. (2) Carbon storage showed an upward trend during 1992–2000, and a downward trend during 2000–2019. Overall, LULC changes during 1992–2019 reduced carbon storage by about 1.50 Tg. (3) The encroachment of cropland in built-up land areas is the main reason for the reduction of carbon storage. The conversion of shrubland to forest is the main driving force for increasing carbon storage. The increase and decrease of carbon storage have obvious spatial clustering characteristics. (4) In the simulation prediction, the natural trend scenario (NT), built-up land priority scenario (BP) and ecological priority scenario (EP) reduce the carbon storage of Hainan Island, and the rate of decrease is BP> NT > EP. The cropland priority scenario (CP) can increase the LULC carbon storage, and the maximum increase in 2050 can reach 0.79 Tg. This paper supplements and improves the understanding of the correlation between LULC and carbon storage changes in tropical regions, and can provide guidance for the optimization of LULC structure in tropical regions with high economic development from a low-carbon perspective.

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Section: Strategies For Optimising Lulc Structure To Balance Economic...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment and Prediction of Carbon Storage Based on Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Tropics: A Case Study of Hainan Island, China

Liu

Yang

Cao

et al. 2022

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“…The community can carry out various forms of thematic publicity activities in combination with the actual situation. For example, actively organize all kinds of news media to publicize and report low-carbon knowledge, establish low-carbon public welfare billboards or exhibition rooms in the community, hold low-carbon knowledge publicity meetings, explain to residents the skills and methods of practicing low-carbon life in daily life details such as electricity, home, travel and catering, and popularize the awareness of lowcarbon life to the hearts of residents in each community (Ma et al, 2021).…”

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Explore the theoretical basis and implementation strategy of low-carbon Urban Community Planning

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Cities carry out various human production and living activities, consume a lot of carbon energy, become the main source of greenhouse gas emissions, and have an increasing impact on the climate. Therefore, as the main battlefield of carbon emission management, cities have become the focus of low-carbon research. The concept of a “low-carbon city” appears in dealing with global climate change. In order to further study the application of low carbon cities, this research discusses how to achieve the goal of low carbon cities from low carbon communities by introducing the concept of low carbon cities and the planning views of experts and scholars on low carbon cities, and based on the theoretical research and practical experience of low carbon cities. In the course of the study, Qianhai Cooperation Zone and Bao’an Central District in Shenzhen are introduced as case studies to analyze the practical application of low-carbon city construction. Through this study, we found that the purpose of low-carbon cities is to provide physical space for resource savings, low waste emissions, high operating efficiency, green and sustainable urban activities. For the completely dispersed urban structure in some regions of China, the polycentric network structure is a favorable urban structure for these regions to achieve low carbon and efficient development. The polycentric network cities have high urban density and activity intensity, so corresponding low-carbon strategies can be effectively implemented according to different functional positioning, density and activity density. On the other hand, in order to achieve efficient and low-carbon urban development, the community should be the basic unit. Only when low carbon is realized in the community can the basic low carbon of urban life be guaranteed and the low carbon of the whole city be realized.

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“…e influence of macro factors in the target market is of paramount importance to multinational retailers in their choice of location for expansion. Following Copeland and Taylor , Li and Zou , Auffhammer et al , Lu et al , we introduce the following macro control variables [22][23][24][25]: (1) PGDP : e level of economic development is measured by the city's gross regional product per capita for the year. (2) FTZ: the degree of openness to the outside world is measured using foreign-invested enterprises above a certain size.…”

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The Impact of China’s Low-Carbon Initiative on the Location Expansion of International SPA Enterprises

Zhao

2021

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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“Fast fashion” represents a short product life cycle, and international SPA enterprises are therefore criticised as representatives of high energy consumption, pollution, and emissions, which is contrary to China’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality. In the context of China’s shift to a low-carbon economic development model, how should SPA enterprises breakthrough in the face of China’s large-scale market advantage and domestic demand potential? Based on the statistics of 277 prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2018, this article selects 5 leading international SPA enterprises and uses the difference-in-differences (DID) method to explore the impact of low-carbon initiative on the location expansion of international SPA enterprises. The results suggest that the quantity of location expansions of SPA enterprises in the pilot cities is significantly lower by approximately 0.418 units compared with the nonpilot cities, implying that the low-carbon initiative has a significant inhibitory effect on the location expansion of SPA enterprises. After a series of robustness tests, the conclusion is valid. The results of the heterogeneity test suggest that the suppression effect is mainly found in the subsample of central cities and cities with medium and low levels of economic development. This article proposes that SPA enterprises should reduce their carbon emissions and gradually explore a green and sustainable development path.

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Mix and match: Configuring different types of policy instruments to develop successful low carbon cities in China

Cited by 45 publications

References 93 publications

Assessment and Prediction of Carbon Storage Based on Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Tropics: A Case Study of Hainan Island, China

Assessment and Prediction of Carbon Storage Based on Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Tropics: A Case Study of Hainan Island, China

Explore the theoretical basis and implementation strategy of low-carbon Urban Community Planning

The Impact of China’s Low-Carbon Initiative on the Location Expansion of International SPA Enterprises

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