Evaluation of a Low-Carbon City: Method and Application

Entropy

Meirong Su¹  Ronghua Li²  Weiwei Lu¹  Chen Chen¹  Bin Chen¹ 

[1] State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment/ No. 19, Xinjiekouwai St., Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; E-Mails:;School of Foreign Languages, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430073, China; E-Mail:

关键词: low-carbon city;    evaluation framework;    synthetic evaluation;    analytical diagnosis;    set pair analysis;   

DOI  :  10.3390/e15041171

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Many cities around the World have established the development objective of becoming a low-carbon city. Evaluation of such a city is important for its progress. A new evaluation framework of urban low-carbon development level is proposed in this paper, which integrates synthetic evaluation based on a bottom-up idea and analytical diagnosis based on a top-down idea. Further, set pair analysis is combined for synthetic evaluation and analytical diagnosis by comparing urban low-carbon development levels of different cities, through which the comprehensive state of urban low-carbon development level can be obtained and limiting factors identified. Based on the proposed framework and set pair analysis, low-carbon development levels of 12 Chinese cities are compared. Some suggestions are provided, based on results of overall situations of urban low-carbon development level and concrete performances of various factors and specific indicators. We conclude that both synthetic evaluation and analytical diagnosis are important for evaluation of urban low-carbon development level. The proposed framework and method can be widely applied in the evaluation of different cities over a long-term period.

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