Spatial Differentiation of China’s Low Carbon Development

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10.2991/mdhss-13.2013.115How to use a DOI?

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low carbon development, the “Hu Line”, prefecture-level administrative region, China

Abstract

How to achieve regional development with less carbon is the focus of attention of the scientific community. In this paper, with the basic spatial unit of 301 prefecture-level administrative region in China, the relatively refined system of quantitative indicators was established. The 2010 low carbon development (LCD) level is divided into four primary types and eight subtypes based on different combinations of indicators. Study shows that, China's development is primarily high-carbon and relatively high-carbon types, and low-carbon and relatively low-carbon types are distributed below the "Hu line". The global differentiation characteristics of China’s LCD are important for policy-making of low carbon development of different types of regions.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jinping Zhang
AU  - Dandan Meng
AU  - Jie Dong
PY  - 2013/12
DA  - 2013/12
TI  - Spatial Differentiation of China’s Low Carbon Development
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on the Modern Development of Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 438
EP  - 440
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mdhss-13.2013.115
DO  - 10.2991/mdhss-13.2013.115
ID  - Zhang2013/12
ER  -