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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al…
Daisuke Sawauchi, Yasutaka Yamamoto
Although agriculture can contribute to ecosystem services, it can also be a source of disservices, including loss of biodiversity and emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants. In this study, we evaluate the biodiversity-conscious farming method in terms o…
Dan Zhu, Michael Kung, Liang Zhou, 1 1
This paper explores sustainable energy systems in ecovillages based on the concept of the Zero Energy Building. The cases discussed in this paper include BedZED in the United Kingdom and Masdar City in the Middle East. These two communities contain features c…
Vathana Khun, Nophea Sasaki, 1 1, 1 1
Selective logging creates a large amount of wood residues in forests in addition to producing a small amount of sawnwood for use as source of construction materials. Although accounting for carbon fluxes in harvested wood products (HWPs) becomes necessary in…
Yuguo Jiang, Lili Fan, Yanxi Yu, Genghong Shi
In recent years, under a low carbon economy and an effective energy saving situation developing enterprises, managing development and improving low carbon competitiveness have become a major problem facing modern enterprise. Firstly, we describe the meaning a…
Vathana Khun, Nophea Sasaki, 1 1, 1 1
Southeast Asia is rich in tropical forests and biodiversity but rapid deforestation and forest degradation have accelerated climate change and threatened sustainable development in the region. Carbon emission reductions through reducing deforestation and fore…
Chunrong Liu, Yaoqiu Kuang, Ningsheng Huang, Xiuming Liu
In order to promote the development of Low-carbon economy (LCE), it is important to establish a scientific LCE quantitative evaluation system. Based on the concept of “life, production and environment”, this paper builds the decomposition models of carbon emi…
Hailin Wang, Xi Yang, Xunmin Ou, 1 1
The actual energy consumption of China’s transportation sector accounts for 10% - 15% of the nation’s total energy consumption. Experience from developed countries shows that on entering a phase of stable urbanization, transportation will account for around 3…
Ying Qin, Hongchun Wang, Kai Wang, Zeyu Li
EMC (energy management contract) is a recognized energy-saving innovation pattern of technology, financing and management. But because of the consciousness problems, legal issues and policy oriented issues, EMC project has a series of problems. The financing…
Pleasa Serin Abraham, Haripriya Gundimeda
The persistent market failures and policy inertia due to the existence of carbon lock-in create barriers to the diffusion of carbon saving technologies. In spite of their apparent environmental and technological advantages, the renewable technologies cannot t…
Hendricus Andy Simarmata, Adriadi Dimastanto, Soly Iman Santoso, Dharma Kalsuma
Recently, building low carbon development pathway becomes a mandatory task for many big cities through spatial planning. For a small city that still has many green areas, it assumed that the mainstreaming process of low carbon development into spatial plannin…
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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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