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Carbon emission of regional land use and its decomposition analysis: Case study of Nanjing City, China

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Through the matching relationship between land use types and carbon emission items, this paper estimated carbon emissions of different land use types in Nanjing City, China and analyzed the influencing factors of carbon emissions by Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) model. The main conclusions are as follows: 1) Total anthropogenic carbon emission of Nanjing increased from 1.22928 × 107 t in 2000 to 3.06939 × 107 t in 2009, in which the carbon emission of Inhabitation, mining & manufacturing land accounted for 93% of the total. 2) The average land use carbon emission intensity of Nanjing in 2009 was 46.63 t/ha, in which carbon emission intensity of Inhabitation, mining & manufacturing land was the highest (200.52 t/ha), which was much higher than that of other land use types. 3) The average carbon source intensity in Nanjing was 16 times of the average carbon sink intensity (2.83 t/ha) in 2009, indicating that Nanjing was confronted with serious carbon deficit and huge carbon cycle pressure. 4) Land use area per unit GDP was an inhibitory factor for the increase of carbon emissions, while the other factors were all contributing factors. 5) Carbon emission effect evaluation should be introduced into land use activities to formulate low-carbon land use strategies in regional development.

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    Rongqin Zhao & Minglei Ding

  2. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Rongqin Zhao, Xianjin Huang, Taiyang Zhong & Xiaowei Chuai

  3. College of Civil Construction Engineering, Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management, Zhengzhou, 450046, China

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Foundation item: Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41301633), National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 10ZD&030), Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 2012M511243, 2013T60518), Clean Development Mechanism Foundation of China (No. 1214073, 2012065)

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Zhao, R., Huang, X., Liu, Y. et al. Carbon emission of regional land use and its decomposition analysis: Case study of Nanjing City, China. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 25, 198–212 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-014-0714-1

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