Abstract
Global warming caused by carbon emission has been recognized as a big threat to the sustainability of the world. Developing low-carbon city has become an important strategy in China in response to increasingly serious global warming and the international pressure of reducing carbon emissions. In order to facilitate the strategy of building low-carbon city can be effectively carried out, it is very important to conduct a deep analysis on how to guide local government to thoroughly complete the low-carbon city construction policies. In this study, the central government and local government are selected as the main research body of the evolutionary game. Then the optimal strategies decision of both sides has been discussed comprehensively based on Replicated Dynamic Equation by employing the evolutionary game model. It is found that the benefits and costs of local government in promoting and developing the low-carbon city, subsidies and punishments from central government should be given with the highest priority for decision making in implementing low-carbon city in China.
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This study is part of the research project sponsored by the Chinese National Social Science Program Fund, entitled “Assessment indicators for low-carbon city (15AZD025)”.
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Lou, Y., Song, X., Yan, H. (2018). Evolutionary Game Analysis on the Low-Carbon City Construction Between Central and Local Government in China. In: Chau, K., Chan, I., Lu, W., Webster, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6190-5_65
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