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This study investigates the cost-effective pathways of China's power decarbonization with various low-carbon power technologies, incorporating the uncertainties of CO2 price. An adapted low-carbon generation expansion planning model (GEP) was applied to determine the least-cost decision. Based on the scenario analysis, we conclude with the following findings. First, technically, carbon capture and...
Due to fast urbanization, natural ecosystems are increasingly being replaced by urban development. Human health is also being threatened. Shanghai has been experiencing a rapid urbanization for over two decades. It is challenging to protect the unique natural ecosystem for planners and decision makers because of the complex ecosystems and other factors. This paperpresentsan integrated method for planning...
The progress of China's fast-paced urbanization is a land development process. Driven by “land bonus”, many lands with high quality visual resources have been used to develop estate in an unsustainable way. In the basis of drawing the relevant theory and research approach both at home and abroad, the paper attempts to present some strategies of visual resources protection and reserve basing on the...
This paper studies the management and policy design for low carbon transition of electricity system in China. Based on the discussion of innovation theory, the paper firstly proposes an interactive management framework for transition management in China. The top-down line of the framework is as “vision-strategy planning-implementation plan”, the bottom-up is detailed technology appraise and policy...
Construction of urban traffic has developed very fast in recent years. The attention to space for passengers is paid increasingly. The design of passing space depends on the understanding of behaviors of passengers. The paper presents the behaviors of behaviors of passenger from macroscopic and microscopic aspects in china. The relationship of passenger's flow-density, capacity and other factors affecting...
As the population of China becomes more urbanized, cities will continue to expand, unknowingly igniting the multi-dimensional vulnerability of human settlements. Sustainable urban settlement requires serious manifestation in the form of low-carbon city construction. The growing urbanization trend, especially in mountain areas and in coastal areas, makes the search for policy solutions acute. Climate...
This paper examines the development impacts of French TGV and analyzes its implications for China. It first provides the research background and introduces the relevance of European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) to the theme of China's coordinated urban and rural development and planning. The paper then reviews the most important literatures related to the development impacts of high-speed...
In the renovation of the old cities in contemporary china, the way of building first has been generally adopted for a long time. Land function transformation is made as a top priority in urban renewal for land value increment and tax. In this way, what is gained in economic interests temporarily is lost in the historical value and feature of old city. The paper presents a strategy of considering first...
In the background that lots of major cities suppress the second industry and develop the third industry in China, medium-sized cities get the opportunity of development, which led to increasingly serious traffic problems. Then, setting Bus Rapid Transit in medium-sized cities is an important way to alleviate the traffic pressure. In this paper, it takes setting conditions of Bus Rapid Transit in Medium-sized...
With the accelerating process of industrialization, China is currently facing a series of resources issues, environment issues and social issues, environment, increasing pressure. If you do not take strong measures, energy conservation and environmental protection objectives may not be realized. In formulating economic and social development planning must follow the economic law and natural law, give...
This paper outlines the trajectory of international planning and design practice in China, focusing on the post-reform era, and challenges and problems that manifested. It shows the initial focus on new concepts and material consideration of space in inviting international practice, and the recent local concerns of a more environmentally and culturally sensitive practice. The paper highlights the...
This paper reviews the basic method in dealing with the urban traffic of China's metropolises. It analyses of fundamental problem of urban transport development in-depth. Then we give some advantages depending on building underground road network to solve these problems in center district of plain metropolises. After analyzing, we proposed that, to achieve this goal will require study and solve urban...
Kisho Kurokawa (1934–2007) is a world famous Japanese architect who made his imprint on architecture and urban planning all around the world. During the mid 1980s, Kurokawa started a twenty-year journey of professional design in China. The Yi Lanzhai Museum, Nanjing, which Kisho Kurokawa confidently told the media that it could be listed by the UNESCO as the preservation sample of modern architecture,...
One of the original idea of World Expo 2010 Shanghai is to be introduced low-carbon idea, and to be created "low carbon Expo " and low-carbon model, which forms a broad, deep and sustained effects of low-carbon in post-World Expo, responses and describes a global low carbon revolution. According to the central requirements of scientific development, harmonious development, first development,...
The 21st century is the critical period that the development strategy of urbanization of China to implement, urbanization's success is a direct impact on the healthy economic and social development of China, but the accelerating urbanization causes a severe challenge to the sustainable development. The eastern coastal regions' economic development is the most rapid one of China, and its urbanization...
The central government of China draw out an important policy "Pothook of City Construction Land Increase and Rural Residential Land Decrease", which has been carried out in many districts allowed by the government, to alleviate the supply-demand contradiction of landuse. This paper analyzes the method to assess rationality of the project of Pothook of City Construction Land Increase and...
A free trade zone (FTZ) or a export processing zone (EPZ) is an area where some traditional trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in order to attract more business and foreign investments. In this paper, eco industry theory is applied to a FTZ named Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone (WFTZ) in a unique city Shanghai to look for its sustainable development...
Biodiversity has become an internationally central concern. As such, it is crucial to fully consider it into social economy development. This paper explores how to carry out the biodiversity impact assessment (BIA) as a useful tool for biodiversity conservation. Taking Beibu Gulf economic zone as the case, the study predicts the impact of the industrial development plans for the period 2007-2020....
There are some basic issues and preconditions easy to be neglected which will affect the establishment of energy stratagem when analyzing the energy situation. The first is overrating the potentials of energy saving and energy consumption reducing. The second is the limited recognitions of the environment carrying capacity. The third is ignoring the huge demand for the fossil energy in the countryside...
In order to realize farmland quantity and quality protection and socioeconomic development coordination, this paper took Shunyi District, Beijing as a case, based on quality evaluation of farmland status quo (2009) and other planning systems, the quantity and spatial distribution of prime farmland plots in Shunyi District were identified. And the results indicate that, the amount of planned prime...
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