Spatial and Temporal Variations of Embodied Carbon Emissions in China’s Infrastructure
| Autor: | Li Xu, Yujie Fan, Jing Bai, Jiansheng Qu, Tek Narayan Maraseni, Jinjia Wu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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material flow analysis (MFA)
Inequality Annual growth rate Natural resource economics 020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Embodied carbon TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology infrastructure 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources embodied carbon emissions Urbanization 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering material stock spatial-temporal characteristics GE1-350 China Stock (geology) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Environmental sciences Greenhouse gas Environmental science Transportation infrastructure |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 11 Issue 3 Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 3, p 749 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su11030749 |
| Popis: | The swift evolution of urbanization in China has led to a rapid increase in the demand for infrastructure. Infrastructure consumes significant amounts of construction materials. The production, packaging, transportation and use of these materials require energy and, therefore, are a source of carbon emissions. In order to make the construction of infrastructure satisfy people&rsquo s life demands and economic development, and at the same time conform to low carbon ideas, it is necessary to understand the spatial and temporal variations of embodied carbon emissions and its regional disparity. This study classifies and sorts the calculation parameters of infrastructure material stock and embodied carbon emissions. It estimates the trends and magnitude of 31 provinces over a period of 20 years (1997&ndash 2016) and analyzes the spatial-temporal characteristics. Our results indicate that: (1) The overall infrastructure embodied carbon emissions amount to 3204 billion tons (2) the embodied carbon emissions from buildings are far greater than that of transportation infrastructure, however, the annual growth rate is contrary to this (3) the spatial and temporal variations show regional inequality, with the eastern coastal area being higher than the central and western inland areas and the economically developed areas being higher than the less developed areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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