China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Environmental Science
Release date:	April 2016
Editors:	Weiguang Huang • Mingquan Wang • Jun Wang • Kun Gao • Song Li • Chen Liu
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	216
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-662-49069-3
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability
LSN:	3-662-49069-2
Barcode:	9783662490693

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