Low-carbon Concept Research Articles

Research on Garden Landscape Design Based on Low-carbon Environmental Protection Concept

In recent years, with the continuous development of China’s low-carbon economy, the concept of low-carbon environmental protection is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the awareness of low-carbon environmental protection has been gradually integrated into our work and life, which has made significant progress for China’s future development. At the present stage, people have carried out good research and practice in low carbon life, but in the landscape, the use of low carbon concept is rarely used. Therefore, the paper analyzes the problems and application of low carbon environmental protection design and draws the conclusion.

Application of Low-Carbon Concept in Urban Landscape Design

In recent years, China’s urbanization process is accelerating day by day, as a part of urban construction, urban landscape design is of great significance to promote the healthy development of the city, especially the application of low-carbon concept to landscape design can highlight the era theme of green and environmental protection. This paper mainly discusses the relationship between low-carbon and urban landscape, the specific embodiment of low-carbon concept in landscape design and the application of low-carbon concept in urban landscape design for reference.

Low Carbon Concept of Sruni Village through The System of Renewable Energy

Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world. The highest population density exists in urban areas and gradually becomes lower in periphery or rural. Therefore the city in Indonesia often looks slum because of over density. The village is the smallest part of a city. In crowded cities there are often slum villages. This paper highlights a model of slum villages in Wonosobo, Sruni village, and solutions to transform socio-cultural communities through renewable energy design based on low carbon concept. The method used is quantitative method based on demographic data of Sruni village, Wonosobo. Based on data and analysis, it is found that renewable energy that can be applied in Sruni village are sanitation, drainage and water waste management, solid waste, rain water harvesting, water wheel and solar panel energy. At the end of the discussion, it is concluded that there are needs to be re-densification or verticalization of the house, in order to obtain more public green open spaces. Meanwhile, based on quantitative analysis, Sruni village needs rain water harvesting system, additional 1 unit of communal Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) serving 80-100 households gray and black water, and 1 units of water wheels to accomodate electricity need of four inhabitant RTs in Sruni village .

저탄소 녹색관광의 개념 및 의의 : 근거이론 방법론을 중심으로

저탄소 녹색관광의 개념 및 의의 : 근거이론 방법론을 중심으로

Identification of low-carbon travel block based on GIS hotspot analysis using spatial distribution learning algorithm

In the future, big data will become an efficient and useful means for improving urban planning, and machine learning can take city as a simplified and efficient system. We take full advantage of the benefits of new technology, but also clarify that city is not a machine, also cannot fully mechanically control the urban development. This study presents a methodology for identifying low-carbon travel block, which can be used to identify the built environment conducive to residents’ low-carbon travel. We chose the four elements of traffic survey—travel mode, travel time, travel purpose and travel frequency—as the framework to evaluate travel carbon emissions. Using the index data collected from “WeChat,” a popular social-media platform in China and questionnaire surveys, we conducted hotspot analysis of the spatial distribution of travel carbon emissions in GIS. We obtained a comprehensive carbon emissions and its spatial distribution through the superposition of hotspot density surface of different indexes. The results show that E block within the research area has the lowest travel carbon emissions. These results suggest some planning implications from three aspects—land use mode, road network and public service facilities: In the old urban district of Pucheng, the ratio of residential building area and other types’ building area should be “4:1–3:1”; and we should develop the travel model of bicycle, and the interval of bicycle lanes should be 350–450 m; The ratio of walking road to total road area should be 15–20%, and the width of road should be restricted. Coverage of transit site buffered for the radius of 150 m is 40–50%, coverage of shopping services buffered for the radius of 50 m is 45–60%, and coverage of recreational facilities buffered for the radius of 100 m is 50–70%. The results confirm that “functional mixing” and “dense road network” are beneficial to residents’ low-carbon travel proposed by the predecessors. At the same time, we found that not the higher volume rate is, the more favorable for low-carbon travel. Small cities have limited number of population and scattered distribution of professional posts, which are not suitable for the traditional mode of improving the volume ratio and the bus system. It is not that the higher the bus station coverage is, the better for residents to travel as low-carbon, and the high popularity of public transportation in small cities will increase the carbon emission of residents. The study provides a new way to evaluate the carbon emission assessment of blocks and provides a basis for block planning with low-carbon concept.

The Rising of Green Society: Low-Carbon Consumption as a Result of Environmental Education in China

This article analyzes the factors that influence low-carbon consumption of college students, with the purpose of guiding environmental education in Chinese universities. To that end, a theoretical framework is proposed on the basis of interviews with several groups incombination with literature analysis using grounded theory and empirical verification methods. The study finds that external environment changes, individual psychological awareness, individual living habit, product technology development and low-carbon consumption intention are positively related to low-carbon consumption patterns. Finally, this paper points out that cultivating environmental education concepts of college students should make full use of different policy tools and adhere to the following principles: the combination of various policies and measures, the participation of multiple stakeholders, the popularization of low-carbon concepts, the demonstration of governments, the effectiveness of mass media, clearly defined laws and regulations and informal system construction.

An Empirical Study on Low-Carbon: Human Resources Performance Evaluation.

Low-carbon logistics meets the requirements of a low-carbon economy and is the most effective operating model for logistic development to achieve sustainability by coping with severe energy consumption and global warming. Low-carbon logistics aims to reduce carbon intensity rather than simply reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Human resources are an important part of the great competition in the logistics market and significantly affect the operations of enterprises. Performance evaluations of human resources are particularly important for low-carbon logistics enterprises with scarce talents. Such evaluations in these enterprises are of great significance for their strategic development. This study constructed a human resource performance evaluation system to assess non-managerial employees’ low-carbon job capacity, job performance, and job attitude in the low-carbon logistics sector. The case study results revealed that the investigated company enjoyed initial success after having promoted low-carbon concepts and values to its non-managerial employees, and the success was demonstrated by excellent performance in its employees’ job attitude and knowledge. This study adopts the AHP method to reasonably determine an indicator system of performance evaluation and its weight to avoid certain human-caused bias. This study not only fills the gap in the related literature, but can also be applied to industrial practice.

An Index Evaluation for Planning Modern Industrial Cities: The Low Carbon Concept

The contradiction between urban development and urban ecology is becoming more distinct with the global population growth and rapid economic development. This study investigated the construction of an evaluation index system for the ecological planning of modern industrial cities based on the low carbon concept to address the ecological crisis brought by the economic development of industrial cities. The entropy and weight calculation methods were adopted. The three-level evaluation system of the low-carbon ecological planning evaluation index was constructed. The basic model STIRPAT and the SPSS statistical analysis method were adopted. Regression analysis was conducted on the influencing factors of the low carbon ecological planning of a port city. The analytic hierarchy process was used, and the ecological construction of an industrial city was evaluated. Research results show that the evaluation index system of this study is suitable for the low carbon planning of industrial cities. The results of the ecological planning in Tianjin were analyzed, and several countermeasures and suggestions for the ecological planning and construction of industrial cities were provided. Thus, this study has a significant reference value.

The Ideology of Nature Revering and Thrift Advocating from Jiao Yu in the Qin Bamboo Slips and the Concept of Low Carbon in Modern Fashion

The Ideology of Nature Revering and Thrift Advocating from Jiao Yu in the Qin Bamboo Slips and the Concept of Low Carbon in Modern Fashion

Product Design under the Low Carbon Design Concept

With the rapid development of society and the rise of people’s living standard, people pay more and more attention to environmental problems. Due to the frequent occurrence of bad weather such as the fog haze, dust storms, the low carbon environmental protection has become a new fashion and low carbon concept began to penetrate into our daily life. Low carbon design considers design as the foundation and the beginning. The designer mainly consider from product concept design phase and implementation phase, with low carbon concept as guiding ideology, use a kind of brand-new understanding to explain low carbon product design according to the understanding of industrial product design to innovate methods. This article mainly aims at analyzing how to explore new approaches as for product under low carbon design concept.

Recycled concrete aggregate/municipal glass blends as a low-carbon resource material for footpaths

Construction and Demolition (C&D) materials comprising recycled concrete aggregate (RCA), fine recycled glass (FRG) and a blend comprising 85% RCA with 15% FRG (85RCA/15FRG) were evaluated for their viability as footpath base layers. The geotechnical laboratory evaluation assessed the performance of the C&D materials in footpath bases and included particle size distribution, particle density, water absorption, pH, organic content, modified Proctor compaction, Los Angeles Abrasion and California bearing ratio (CBR) tests. Total concentrations and Australian standard leaching procedure tests were performed on several heavy metals to assess the leaching potentials of contaminants released from the recycled materials. Following the completion of the geotechnical and environmental laboratory evaluation, a footpath was constructed to demonstrate the performance of the 85RCA/15FRG blend as a footpath base material. Field tests comprising nuclear gauges for density and moisture measurements and Clegg hammer tests for field CBR measurements were undertaken to assess the performance of the base materials in the field. The 85RCA/15FRG blend was found to be an optimum one in the laboratory and field evaluation works, as the blend provided adequate bearing strength and furthermore enhanced the workability of RCA, through the introduction of glass fines. Energy savings assessment demonstrated that the use of 85RCA/15FRG blend as footpath base material furthermore has the potential for saving embodied energy. This research indicates that this low carbon concept, utilizing RCA and FRG blends as base materials, is a viable alternative engineering material for future footpaths.

Analysis and study of low-carbon clothing design and fashion lifestyle

<p>Low-carbon is not only a slogan, but also a global action to protect the environment. In the clothing industry, low-carbon clothing design has drawn public focus and it also conveyed the notion that we should respect for nature and advocate the concept of conservation. Through the analysis and study of low-carbon clothing design, it comes to two conclusions: On the subjective aspect, low-carbon design consciousness of designers which humanization of costume design, design clothing beyond beauty, thinking and caring about people; on the objective aspects, low-carbon clothing design is analyzed in three main aspects: fabric, color and styling. It is necessary to put low-carbon concept into people’s behavior consciousness and let the slow fashion environmental concept return back to people’s fashion lifestyle, so that consumers can look for their self-positioning and rational thinking. Therefore, the design of low-carbon clothing should be raised to the design of humanistic care to ensure that low-carbon concept is a global need and responsibility.</p>

Strength and microstructure evaluation of recycled glass-fly ash geopolymer as low-carbon masonry units

The objective of this research was to evaluate the strength development of industrial by-products, namely Recycled Glass (RG) and Fly Ash (FA) in the manufacture of low carbon masonry units. A low carbon concept for manufacturing masonry units using RG-FA geopolymers was explored by applying low curing temperature of 50°C and a low curing period of just 3–7days. RG, being rich in silica was used as a filler material. FA, being a silica and alumina rich industrial by-product was used as a precursor in the RG-FA geopolymers. A liquid alkaline activator (L) comprising of a sodium hydroxide-sodium silicate solution was used for the alkali activation of 30% content of FA in the RG-FA blend. Factors found to affect strength development of the RG-FA geopolymers were: (1) the ratio of sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate in the liquid activator, (2) application of a low curing temperature of only 50°C, (3) short curing periods of just 7days and (4) the L/FA ratios. A geopolymer composed of a 70% Na2SiO3:30% NaOH ratio with a L/FA ratio of 0.625 was found to be the most efficient combination to provide the required unconfined compression strengths for manufacturing masonry. The usage of RG-FA geopolymers as low carbon masonry units was found to be viable using a low curing period of just 7days and a curing temperature of just 50°C. The RG-FA geopolymers had sufficient compressive strength be used as structural masonry units and needed only a low amount of heat treatment to achieve the minimum strength requirement. Optimally, 30% of FA was found to be sufficient for geopolymerization to occur for this novel low carbon RG-FA masonry units. Furthermore, the core materials needed to produce RG-FA masonry units were industrial by-products, the sustainable usage of which would contribute significantly to efficient waste management, through the production of aesthetically pleasing masonry units.

Low Carbon Economy in the Cities of China - Possibilities to Estimate the Potential os CO2-Emissions

Increasing urbanization and climate change are one of the greatest challenges in the 21st Century. Many regions already face different negative impacts on cities such as growing local pollution, solid and liquid waste, traffic congestion and noise. A growing consumption of fossil fuels in cities leads to increasing CO2-emissions accelerating climate change. All over the world and also in China, cities are trying to reduce their carbon footprint. In that context, the concept of so called “low carbon cities” is promoted. Currently, 79 cities in China are considering low carbon concepts. To build a low carbon city is not an easy task as there are various barriers to be removed, such as financial, traditional and institutional barriers. Building belong to the most traditional and slow-changing innovative areas in industry. Further solutions are different for hot and warm climates than for cold climates. Due to a very fragmented and divided structure in smaller enterprises and in different areas, a holistic approach is hardly to get.

China’s Urbanization and Carbon Emissions Peak

With the increase of urban population around the world, the massive construction of urban infrastructure and residential housing is hard to avoid. Urbanization has become a major factor that influences carbon emissions instead of a secondary factor due to more and more energy consumption and carbon emissions caused by the economic activities related to urbanization. China is in a stage of rapid development of urbanization, and urban construction has a huge potential demand for steel and iron, cement, and other high energy-consuming products, and thus the development of urbanization in the future will bring great challenge to the realization of China’s carbon emissions peak. Through the exploration and the analysis of the mechanism of urbanization’s impact on carbon emissions and the experience of urbanization development in developed countries, this paper summarizes the general evolving rules of carbon emissions peak along with the development of urbanization, defines the present stage of our country and briefly analyzes the arrival of China’s carbon emissions peak in the future. During the process of China’s new-type urbanization development in the future, we should make a scientific planning integrated with low-carbon concept from the demographic, social, economic, spatial structure, technical, and other dimensions, in order to reduce the impact of urbanization development on carbon emissions and realize the carbon emissions peak of China early.

Sustainable urban development in China: challenges and achievements

China is undergoing rapid urbanization, along with economic growth and transport automation. Because it is densely populated, China is constrained by natural resource limitations and potential impacts of global climate change. Significant challenges for sustainable urban development include urban sprawl, traffic congestion, air pollution, city layouts not oriented to twenty-first century lifestyles, declining traditional urban culture, selective over-development, and social inequities. Increasing awareness of these pressing problems has led national and provisional governments and cities to seek sustainable urban development solutions. Central ministries and non-government organizations have implemented pilot projects demonstrating best practices in the Chinese context. These are being scaled up to develop local and national guidelines and policies. This paper describes China’s urbanization issues and national and local efforts toward the realization of sustainable urbanization. It is hoped that China’s urbanization trends and challenges will stimulate sustainable and low-carbon concepts and approaches that can enrich sustainable urbanization theory and practices in and beyond China.

Reducing students’ carbon footprints using personal carbon footprint management system based on environmental behavioural theory and persuasive technology

This study applied environmental behavioural theories to develop a personal carbon footprint management system and used persuasive technology to implement it. The system serves as an educational system to improve the determinants of students’ low-carbon behaviours, to promote low-carbon concepts and to facilitate their carbon management. To assess the validity of the system, high school students were chosen to participate in an experiment, the results of which reveal (1) the system has significant and positive short-term and relatively long-term effects on the reduction of their self-reported carbon footprint, (2) the system significantly improves their carbon footprint awareness and perceived behavioural control (PBC), and it also promotes behavioural subjective norms, (3) reduction of their self-reported carbon footprint is significantly correlated to PBC, carbon footprint awareness and attitude and (4) PBC is the most critical determinant of carbon reduction. Suggestions are accordingly made.

Research on Establishing City Low Carbon Economy Evaluation Theory Model

To explore the method of creating a theoretical model of urban low-carbon economy evaluation, and analyze the development status and level of low carbon economy in cities in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River; Method To introduce the basic theory of low-carbon economy, the principle and the technical route for creating the evaluation system of urban low-carbon economy, develop 3 layers of 5 categories of 18 evaluation indicators, conduct weighted calculation using Delphi method, analytic hierarchy process(AHP) , fuzzy evaluation method and fuzzy AHP method, investigate into 7 cities, such as Shanghai, Nanjing in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River, and evaluate the urban low-carbon economic status using the created models; Results The evaluation result shows that at present China has many cities at “medium to high carbon economy” or “high carbon economy” types. The development level of low-carbon economy lagged behind many western countries; Conclusion It is a most efficient pathway to improve the present low-carbon economic level by vigorously developing the low-carbon technology, developing the low-carbon environmental education and promoting the low-carbon concept.

The Research on Path of the New Type Resource-Based Urban Construction in China - Based on the Perspective of Low Carbon

Resource is the foundation of the people to survive and develop. It promotes the development of national economy. Because of rich resources of the energy-based cities, the effects on the environment in the process of exploration are extremely obvious, and promoting the resource-based urban development in the direction of low carbon has become the strategic choice. Based on the concept of low carbon, starting from definition of the resource-based city, through the comprehensive analysis of the present situation of the resource-based city in our country, forming the new path of the construction of new type resource-based city with Chinese characteristics, this text will dig out the low carbon potential of the resource-based city to the uttermost.

Design Research of Environmental Protection Clothes Based on Low-Carbon Concept

The current situation of environmental protection clothes under low-carbon economy era is analyzed, and the design methods of environmental protection clothes are discussed by starting from three elements of clothing design: clothing styles, materials and colors. On the one hand, the damage of clothing production to the environment will be solved; on the other hand, long-term sound development of the industry will be realized. To realize the change of clothing product from the aspect of design, so as to gradually change the production modes, further to make it fit the requirement of environmentalism.