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China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice


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China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice Synopsis

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.  

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ISBN: 9783662490693
Publication date: 7th April 2016
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Publisher: Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 216 pages
Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
Genres: The environment
City and town planning: architectural aspects
Physical geography and topography
Sustainability