China’s Low-Carbon Urbanization Progress and Pathway

Benfan Liang (), Jiahua Pan (), Ying Zhang (), Yanchun Meng () and Shouxian Zhu ()
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Benfan Liang: Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China
Jiahua Pan: Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China
Ying Zhang: Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China
Yanchun Meng: School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing 10084, P. R. China
Shouxian Zhu: Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences MCC Tower, 28 Shungangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, P. R. China

Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), 2015, vol. 03, issue 04, 1-20

Abstract: Low-carbon urbanization is the integration of urbanization and low carbonization. It is the low-carbon transformation of current urban areas, the new trend of developing model of urban and rural areas, which includes the low-carbon transition in production, living style, and ecological spaces, the low-carbon reform in economy, society, structure, and the developing model, as well as changing urban areas from high-carbon style to low-carbon style. The urbanization rate of China is almost the same with global average level, and is expected to reach 80% in 2050. Currently, urbanization replaces industrialization, becoming an important force influencing socio-economic development, climate and ecological environment changes, international relations, and political patterns. With a 2∘C rise in temperature, human beings have to face a series of risks brought by climate change. China’s large-scale urbanization is of great influence on others. In this context, it is necessary to take a scientific cognition of China’s urbanization process, clarifying urbanization developing pathway, turning carbon constraints into carbon bonus, avoiding high-carbon lock, and then to take opportunities in promoting economic structure under “new normal” conditions, accelerating the upgrade from urban civilization to ecological civilization, and to reach both 100-year goal and low-carbon developing goal, leading sustainable development globally.

Keywords: Urbanization; carbon emissions; carbon constraint; carbon dividend; ecological civilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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