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 Chinas 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.
Introduction.- Significance of Development of Low-carbon Healthy Cities.- Current Status of Low-carbon Healthy City Development in China.- Development of Global Low-carbon Cities.- Low-carbon Healthy City Planning and Design.- Infrastructure of Low-carbon Cities.- Low-carbon Healthy City Assessment Systems.1CV of Weiguang Huang
Vice President of Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Education and Appointments
Huang Weiguang was born in 1962. He received his PhD in Kyushu University, and worked as Post-doctoral fellow in Institute of Engineering Thermophysics (IET) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) from 1991-19lӟ
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