Affiliation:
1. Shandong Academy of Sciences
2. Energy research institute of shandong Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Due to rapid urbanization process and fast urbanization rate, China will consume a large amount of embodied energy accompanied with carbon emissions in the next decades. As the basic society unit and the city epitome, sustainability development of the community is essential for construction of sustainable society and acceleration of prosperous economy. In the present paper, low carbon technologies, strategies and energy-related lifestyles concerned with sustainability development of the community have been briefly introduced. Typical practices, characteristics and measures of some sustainable communities in China have been reviewed. Existing evaluation tools and indicators at community level have been analyzed for the evaluation, implementation and standardization of sustainable communities. In the end, some suggestions have been proposed to promote the large-scale demonstration of sustainable communities in the future.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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