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In the global campaign to reduce carbon emissions, China faces two challenges: promoting urbanization and reducing carbon emissions. Failing to address these challenges appropriately could easily result in stronger emission. According to statistics from the International Energy Agency in 2011, China’s carbon dioxide emissions exceeded those of the United States by 2.6 billion tons. Chinese emissions exceeded aggregate emissions of the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil by 450 million tons, compared with other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nations.
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Part 5 Acknowledgements
This research was co-directed by Weiguang Huang, Mingquan Wang, and Jun Wang. The English version was checked by Song LI. Yilun Wang, Youping Wang, and Xiaohong Wang partially translated research papers and helped modify the language. The chapter entitled Planning and Design of Low-carbon Cities was co-authored by Shangwu Zhang, Xiaoming Kuang, Ye Chen, Xueyuan Deng, and Jun Chen. The chapter Comparative Analysis of both Chinese and Foreign Cities was co-authored by Qingji Shen, Chao An, and Kai Yan. The chapter entitled Development of Global Low-carbon Cities was co-authored by Jun Zha, Zhongnan Ye and Yifei Tian, and Industrial Development of Low-carbon Cities and Social Life of Low-carbon Cities by Zhituan Deng and Kexin Ye. The Current Construction of Chinese Low-carbon Cities and Assessment system Research on Domestic Low-carbon Cities were co-authored by Mingquan Wang, Liqun Zhang and Kun Gao, and The Infrastructure of Low-carbon Cities by Zhonghua Shen and Chen Liu.
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Huang, W., Wang, M., Wang, J., Gao, K., Li, S., Liu, C. (2016). Introduction. In: Huang, W., Wang, M., Wang, J., Gao, K., Li, S., Liu, C. (eds) China Low-Carbon Healthy City, Technology Assessment and Practice. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49071-6_1
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