Low-carbon Evaluation Research Articles

Framework for assessing cable car construction investment projects: Examining investment projects in Taiwan

The use of low-carbon evaluation indices for tourist attractions facilitates the promotion of low-carbon tourism. However, balancing tourism and environmental considerations has become critical to the development of the tourism market. Compared with road vehicles, cable cars are environmentally friendly, convenient, and economical. This study presents a framework for evaluating cable car development projects on the basis of the following aspects: (a) determining guidelines for cable car stations and route layouts, (b) establishing a logical framework for assessing the feasibility of cable car systems, (c) identifying station assessment items, and (d) evaluating the assessment items for potential routes by applying the analytic hierarchy process. These aspects can facilitate executing thorough and pragmatic assessments of cable car development projects.

An Integrated Algorithm for Low-Carbon City Evaluation Based on Neural Network and Analytic Hierarchy Process

The low-carbon city evaluation has great significance to promote the urban construction management and sustainable development of city. In order to establish a suitable low-carbon city evaluation method to measure the performance of low-carbon city planning and construction, based on the index system of low-carbon city evaluation in the Pressure Status Response (PSR) framework, an integrated algorithm for low-carbon city evaluation combining BP neural network with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is proposed. Furthermore, the possible ways for optimization have been discussed. The model and algorithm have the following properties: rapid, flexible and feasible.

Study and Application of Green and Low-Carbon Highway Evaluation Indicators System

Based on four categories of indicators, including comprehensive indicators, technical indicators, supporting (managerial) indicators and characteristic indicators, combined with actual characteristics of Chinese highway development, this paper discusses about and builds a green and low-carbon highway evaluation indicators system, and puts forward a set of simple and practical evaluation methods and evaluation standards system; with case study of Linxiang City to Yueyang City (Da-Yue) Expressway in Hunan Province, this paper also conducts empirical pre-evaluation of planning level in 2017, and verifies scientific validity of the indicators system.

The Research on the Highway Low-carbon Degrees Assessment Index System & Quantification Model

With the increasing human activities, the energy and environment problem are increasingly prominent, and transportation industry has raised common concern. In the paper AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) is used to contrast different kinds of factors which affect highway low-carbon degree and further to determine the weights. Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is applied to evaluate the degree of low-carbon road. Highway low-carbon degree evaluation system has been completed based on VB.NET technology. Finally, evaluation model is verified through examples.

Establishment of Low-Carbon Evaluation Index System for Container Terminals

A low-carbon evaluation index system for container terminals is proposed on the basis of their characteristics and the concept of low-carbon port. This system takes quantitative indexes as the core, supplemented by qualitative ones. The weight of each index is determined by AHP, and then a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model is established according to the AHP-fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. Finally, the proposed model is applied to a certain region of a container terminal, and the result indicates that the proposed evaluation index system and evaluation model can provide a reference for the low-carbon level evaluation of container terminals.

Dynamic Comparison Studies on Development of Low-Carbon City in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

To study development of low-carbon city has significant meaning for transformation of city in China. This paper takes the DPSIR model as the basis to construct a low-carbon city evaluation index system in Beijing-tianjin-hebei region. By constructing the compound fuzzy matter-element, using the entropy weight method and formula of Euclid approach degree, calculates the closeness of low-carbon city from 2007 to 2011 in Beijing-tianjin-hebei region. The results showed that low-carbon city development in Beijing is better than it in Tianjin and Hebei, however, considering the component, some questions remain, city pressure and urban pollution in Beijing area are higher than its in Tianjin and Hebei and so on.

Research on the Low-Carbon Development Evaluation System for the Thermal Power Plants

The environment problem becoming increasingly prominent in nowadays, people pay more and more attention to low-carbon. The low-carbon status of power plants has a significant impact on the low-carbon development of the whole country. And the proportion of thermal power installed capacity of total installed capacity is more than 70%. So there’s necessity and practical significance to study low-carbon development evaluation system for thermal power plants. This paper discusses the principles, indexes selection and evaluation methods for thermal power plants’ low-carbon development assessment. And its case study done shows the effectiveness of the methods.

Comprehensive Evaluation of Low-Carbon City in China Using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Theory

Low carbon city is the direction of the development of city in the future. Firstly, this paper constructed the comprehensive evaluation index system of the low carbon economy city that including six primary indexes and 12 secondary indexes by summarizing the recent research of low-carbon connotation and low-carbon evaluation index. These indexes are low-carbon economy, low-carbon energy, low-carbon construction, low-carbon traffic, low-carbon society and low-carbon policy. And then, we discussed the development of low-carbon economy of Beijing, Shanghai and Baoding by using intuitionistic fuzzy set approach for urban low-carbon economy comprehensive evaluation index system. The result that Beijing first and Shanghai second and the last is Baoding, that have important practical significance to regulate and guide the construction of low-carbon cities.

Developing an evaluation index system for low-carbon tourist attractions in China – A case study examining the Xixi wetland

The field of low-carbon tourism is starting to be explored in China. Low-carbon tourism is an approach to the sustainable development of tourism that is associated with a low-carbon economy. The core value of low-carbon tourism is to provide a high-quality tourism experience that ensures that low carbon emissions and a decrease in pollution are associated with transportation, accommodations, sightseeing, shopping and entertainment. The use of low-carbon evaluation indexes for tourist attractions will help to encourage widespread low-carbon tourism. This paper, using the Xixi wetland as a case study, empirically examines an evaluation index system for low-carbon tourism attractions and extends previous research on low-carbon tourism.

The Building of Scenic Area Evaluation Index System on Low-Carbon Economy Perspective

The proposition of low-carbon tourism concept gave birth to the new developing rules of scenic area. Understanding the connotation of low-carbon scenic area and build the evaluation and certification of low-carbon scenic area as quickly as possible, which is the theoretical basis of low-carbon transition in scenic area. This paper builds a concept model of low-carbon Scenic Area by referring to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)'s DSR (Driving — Status — Response) model, and understands the connotation of low-carbon scenic area from five levels which include development stage of scenic area, resources and environment, emission-reduction technology, consumer operation, policy concept. On the base above, to construct the evaluation system of low-carbon scenic area by choosing four level indicators including low-carbon resources evaluation, the development evaluation, the awareness evaluation and the experience evaluation , which can provide a reference for the development potential of low-carbon scenic area and provide the theoretical direction and the technical support for the inspect of future low-carbon scenic area, the cooperation of emission reduction projects and the establishment of discharge compensating system.

Research on Low-Carbon Management of Tourism Service in Holiday Resorts with Chinese Rural Characteristics

As the development of the society and the low-carbon economy, the low-carbon tourism visualizes its advantages more and more obviously. On the basis of the low-carbon management of the tourism service in the holiday resorts with Chinese rural characteristics, this article aims at analyzing the fostering of the low-carbon service concept, the low-carbon service creation and the low-carbon service evaluation, to confirm that whether the management of the low-carbon service in tourism in holiday resorts with Chinese rural characteristics can be achieved or not depends on the fostering of the low-carbon service concept and the low-carbon service creation under the evaluation of low-carbon service.

Study on Low-Carbon Community Evaluation Index System in Karst Rocky Desertification Areas under the Perspective of Ecological Civilization

Three typical karst rocky desertification sites in Guizhou including Yachi demonstration site in Bijie, Huajiang demonstration site in Guanling-Zhenfeng and Hongfeng Lake demonstration site in Qingzhen were chosen to research the low-carbon community construction under the perspective of ecological civilization. Many times investigations and discussions were carried out. Conclusions were drawn that: the ecological civilization has special meanings and characteristics featured by strong regionalism and entire systematicness; the key points for the construction of low-carbon community in karst rocky desertification areas includes low carbonization of ecological environment, low carbonization of productivity activities, low carbonization of energy consumption structure, low carbonization of lifestyle and low carbonization of institutional policy; the index system of low-carbon community in karst rocky desertification areas was established including target layer, criterion layer and index layer. Five criteria and 35 indices were figured out for evaluating low-carbon community in karst rocky desertification areas.

Low Carbon Development Mode for Urban Landscape Planning and Construction

Low carbon development mode meet requirements of urban green landscape and green landscape properties. According to green landscape, plant settlement, design implementation and low carbon development, we proposed three pieces of advice, which including ecological network construction of public green system, plant community carbon layers, seamless docking between plant landscape and grounding interface. Then we establish low carbon evaluation system for landscape through balancing low carbon ecological effect, aesthetic value, social value, so as to providing means for the construction of urban landscape planning low carbon development.

The Assessment Index System of Low-Carbon City Development

The purpose of the research was to establish an index analysis system for evaluating the low-carbon cities development. DPSIR model was adopted to build an index system for low-carbon city evaluation. In this research, two different approaches were adopted for the empirical analysis of low-carbon city development evaluation. The one approach was DPSIR model for building an index system of low-carbon city evaluation; the other was the Factor Analysis which was introduced to calculate the weight of factors and evaluate low-carbon development in Yangtze River Delta. The results disclosed that the technology factor took account more weight in “driving force” index, the resource consumption factor play more important role in “pressure” index; the weight of exhaust emission factor was equal to the social low-carbon level factor in “state” index. The conclusion of empirical research was that the cities such as Yancheng, Wuxi, and Suzhou had higher scores, but the low-carbon city development in Zhejiang province was better than the cities in Jiangsu province and Shanghai area.

The Low-Carbon Evaluation of Resident Buildings Based on the Value Engineering

Facing the increasingly serious energy and climate crisis, the concept of low-carbon indicates development direction for building conservation. However, building functions are easily neglected in the process of low carbon residential buildings construction. Therefore, based on the concept of value engineering, this paper presents a comprehensive evaluation method to evaluate carbon emissions of residential building. It highlights residential building functions as well. Function coefficient can be confirmed by establishing residential buildings function evaluation index system. Moreover,the unit carbon emission isadopted as cost coefficient. The low-carbon nature of residential building will be evaluated by the ratio of function coefficient and cost coefficient.The aim of this research is to advance the awareness of residential building carbon emissions, exploring the path of realizing maximum satisfaction of building functions with minimum carbon emissions, which can provide new ideas of residential building carbon emissions evaluation.

An Assessment of Low-Carbon Efficiency Evaluation in the Prospect of Environmental Optimization

From the prospect of environmental optimization the paper establishes a two-dimensional structure of low-carbon efficiency model firstly, with which the different efficiency of economic development comes down to four models. Then the paper builds evaluation index system on low-carbon by taking the CCR model of DEA method as the main analysis approach. On the basis of the above the paper researches on the ecological economy efficiency of 7 economic regions in China from the three levels，namely economic growth efficiency, environmental optimization efficiency and low-carbon efficiency. Eventually, through index evaluation process on the development situation of the above-mentioned economic regions from 2006 and 2007 this article puts forward strategic development policy recommendations advices for the derived results.

Electrochemical synthesis of poly(o-anisidine) coatings on low carbon steel and evaluation of corrosion protection performance

Poly(o-anisidine) (POA) coatings were synthesised on low carbon steel substrates by electrochemical polymerisation of o-anisidine under cyclic voltammetric conditions from an aqueous solution of sodium tartrate. The resulting POA coatings were uniform and strongly adherent to the substrates. The coatings were characterised by cyclic voltammetry, UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction measurements and scanning electron microscopy. The ability of the POA coatings to protect the steel in an aqueous 3%NaCl solution was evaluated by the potentiodynamic polarisation technique and cyclic voltammetry. It was found that the POA coating ennobled the corrosion potential and significantly reduced the corrosion rate of the steel.