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China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice, PDF eBook

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

Edited by Weiguang Huang, Mingquan Wang, Jun Wang, Kun Gao, Song Li, Chen Liu

Part of the Environmental Science and Engineering series

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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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