Analyzing the spatial pattern of carbon metabolism and its response to change of urban form

Linlin Xia, Yan Zhang, Xiaoxi Sun and Jinjian Li

Ecological Modelling, 2017, vol. 355, issue C, 105-115

Abstract: Analyzing the correlation between carbon metabolism and urban form could provide new insight for low-carbon city design. The paper analyzed the spatial changes of urban carbon metabolism and also of the urban form from 1990 to 2010, using a combination of GIS method and landscape indices. The study showed that urban center in 2010 increase to 2.2 times that in 1990, which caused the expansion and extension of high carbon emission area in the southeast plain. The evolution of suburbs and outer suburbs was influenced by urban center and fell behind urban center, which caused the opposite change of the medium and low carbon emission area in the periphery of southeast center. The spatial distribution of carbon sequestration was affected by the policies during urbanization, which caused the shrink and fragmentation before 2000 and the recovery of the high carbon sequestration area after 2000. The study could be quite useful for regional land use planning for providing quantitative evaluation.

Keywords: Urban carbon metabolism; Urban form; Landscape indices; Fragmental dimension; Spatial analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380016307591
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:355:y:2017:i:c:p:105-115

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.03.002

Access Statistics for this article

Ecological Modelling is currently edited by Brian D. Fath

More articles in Ecological Modelling from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().