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Nina Khanna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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china s pilot low carbon City Initiative a comparative assessment of national goals and local plans
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2014Co-Authors: Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Lixuan HongAbstract:Abstract In the past decade, China's unprecedented urbanization has paralleled a 250% growth in primary energy demand and urban areas have emerged as the crux of energy and CO2 emissions reduction in China. In recognition of cities’ importance in mitigating future energy and CO2 emissions growth, the Chinese government launched a demonstration program of 5 low-carbon pilot provinces and 8 pilot cities in 2010 to promote low-carbon urban development. As one of the first national programs to promote low-carbon urban development, the recent plans and policies adopted by these 8 pilot low-carbon cities can shed light on if and how low-carbon cities can shape China's future energy and emission trajectories. This paper reviews the historical development and context for low-carbon urban development in China and then presents an ex-ante comparative assessment of the low-carbon development plans and supporting measures formulated for each of China's 8 pilot low-carbon cities. We find that while the 8 pilot cities have made progress in establishing low-carbon plans, key barriers such as a lack of explicit definition for low-carbon City, complexity and confusion resulting from several parallel programs, and insufficient supporting policies and market-based instruments may hinder urban development that is truly low carbon.
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Evaluating China's pilot lowcarbon City Initiative: nationa goals and local plans
2014Co-Authors: Nina KhannaAbstract:E RNEST O RLANDO L AWRENCE B ERKELEY N ATIONAL L ABORATORY Evaluating China’s pilot low- carbon City Initiative: national goals and local plans Nina Khanna, David Fridley and Lixuan Hong China Energy Group Environmental Energy Technologies Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Pre-print version of proceedings of the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, held in Toulon, France, June 3 – 8, 2013 March 2013 This work was supported through the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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Evaluating China's pilot lowcarbon City Initiative: nationa goals and local plans - eScholarship
2014Co-Authors: Nina KhannaAbstract:E RNEST O RLANDO L AWRENCE B ERKELEY N ATIONAL L ABORATORY Evaluating China’s pilot low- carbon City Initiative: national goals and local plans Nina Khanna, David Fridley and Lixuan Hong China Energy Group Environmental Energy Technologies Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Pre-print version of proceedings of the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s 2013 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency, held in Toulon, France, June 3 – 8, 2013 March 2013 This work was supported through the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Lixuan Hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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china s pilot low carbon City Initiative a comparative assessment of national goals and local plans
Sustainable Cities and Society, 2014Co-Authors: Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Lixuan HongAbstract:Abstract In the past decade, China's unprecedented urbanization has paralleled a 250% growth in primary energy demand and urban areas have emerged as the crux of energy and CO2 emissions reduction in China. In recognition of cities’ importance in mitigating future energy and CO2 emissions growth, the Chinese government launched a demonstration program of 5 low-carbon pilot provinces and 8 pilot cities in 2010 to promote low-carbon urban development. As one of the first national programs to promote low-carbon urban development, the recent plans and policies adopted by these 8 pilot low-carbon cities can shed light on if and how low-carbon cities can shape China's future energy and emission trajectories. This paper reviews the historical development and context for low-carbon urban development in China and then presents an ex-ante comparative assessment of the low-carbon development plans and supporting measures formulated for each of China's 8 pilot low-carbon cities. We find that while the 8 pilot cities have made progress in establishing low-carbon plans, key barriers such as a lack of explicit definition for low-carbon City, complexity and confusion resulting from several parallel programs, and insufficient supporting policies and market-based instruments may hinder urban development that is truly low carbon.
Yan Xiong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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can low carbon City construction facilitate green growth evidence from china s pilot low carbon City Initiative
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019Co-Authors: Jinhua Cheng, Jiahui Yi, Yan XiongAbstract:Abstract Faced with the predicament of sustainable development in traditional cities, the low-carbon City, as a novel urban development mode, provides a feasible idea for resolving the tensions among urban development, resource conservation and environmental protection. Using prefecture-level panel data during 2007–2016, we adopt the difference-in-differences model to explore the impact of low-carbon City construction on green growth. Afterward, we estimate the heterogeneity of economic-environmental effects on cities, and those effects are attributed to different scales and locations. The robustness tests reveal that low-carbon pilot cities significantly and continuously benefit in terms of the green total factor productivity through technical effects being partly transformed into green technical progress and structural effects. Additionally, the construction of low-carbon cities has scale economy and regional differences. Cities with larger scales, more complete infrastructure and better foundations for technology have more significantly positive effects on green growth. These findings also apply to cities in similar developing countries seeking to achieve economic transformation and green growth.
Marie Anne Macadar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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delivering public value through open government data Initiatives in a smart City context
Information Systems Frontiers, 2017Co-Authors: Gabriela Viale Pereira, Marie Anne Macadar, Edimara M. Luciano, Maurício Gregianin TestaAbstract:By using ICT in an innovative way, governments can improve the delivery of services and interaction with stakeholders. Open data is a way to help public organizations became more open and improve interaction with stakeholders. This paper aims to identify what are the public values enhancements acquired on smart City environment that discloses open data. We propose a conceptual model to analyze the smart City Initiative. We contextualized the model taking a smart City domain by analyzing three related-Initiatives that comprises open data in a smart City case carried at Rio de Janeiro Operations Center (COR) in Brazil by seven deep-interviewees directly involved - from inside and outside --- in this case. The findings reveal evidences that open data Initiatives contribute to enhance the delivery of public value in smart City contexts.
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Delivering public value through open government data Initiatives in a Smart City context
Information Systems Frontiers, 2017Co-Authors: Gabriela Viale Pereira, Marie Anne Macadar, Edimara M. Luciano, Maurício Gregianin TestaAbstract:© 2016, The Author(s). By using ICT in an innovative way, governments can improve the delivery of services and interaction with stakeholders. Open data is a way to help public organizations became more open and improve interaction with stakeholders. This paper aims to identify what are the public values enhancements acquired on smart City environment that discloses open data. We propose a conceptual model to analyze the smart City Initiative. We contextualized the model taking a smart City domain by analyzing three related-Initiatives that comprises open data in a smart City case carried at Rio de Janeiro Operations Center (COR) in Brazil by seven deep-interviewees directly involved - from inside and outside – in this case. The findings reveal evidences that open data Initiatives contribute to enhance the delivery of public value in smart City contexts.
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a smart City Initiative a case study of porto alegre 156
Digital Government Research, 2014Co-Authors: Luiza Schuch De Azambuja, Cristiano Ramos Moreira, Jorge Lheureuxdefreitas, Marie Anne MacadarAbstract:Many cities around the world are investing in "smart" ways to manage the problems associated with urbanization and agglomeration of people. The challenge is how to implement Initiatives to attend citizen's necessities aiming a better quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to describe the "156 Speaks Porto Alegre", channel driven to citizen municipal demands, and investigate its integration and relationship with the eight dimensions of the Smart City Initiatives Framework: technology, management and organization, policy context, governance, people and communities, economy, built infrastructure, and natural environment. The main findings show that coordination between agencies and departments are needed to achieve citizen better quality of life. They also demonstrate that the use of the right technology is really important and a smart City Initiative must have mobility and easy interaction with citizen. Finally, interdepartmental collaboration and cooperation are considered central issues to achieve Initiatives' objectives.
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A smart City Initiative
Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research - dg.o '14, 2014Co-Authors: Luiza Schuch De Azambuja, Jorge Lheureux-de-freitas, Cristiano Ramos Moreira, Marie Anne MacadarAbstract:Many cities around the world are investing in "smart" ways to manage the problems associated with urbanization and agglomeration of people. The challenge is how to implement Initiatives to attend citizen's necessities aiming a better quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to describe the "156 Speaks Porto Alegre", channel driven to citizen municipal demands, and investigate its integration and relationship with the eight dimensions of the Smart City Initiatives Framework: technology, management and organization, policy context, governance, people and communities, economy, built infrastructure, and natural environment. The main findings show that coordination between agencies and departments are needed to achieve citizen better quality of life. They also demonstrate that the use of the right technology is really important and a smart City Initiative must have mobility and easy interaction with citizen. Finally, interdepartmental collaboration and cooperation are considered central issues to achieve Initiatives' objectives. Copyright © 2014 ACM.
Jeffrey S Lowe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a participatory planning approach to enhancing a historically black university community partnership the case of the e City Initiative
Planning Practice and Research, 2008Co-Authors: Jeffrey S LoweAbstract:Abstract Little is known about the involvement of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in university–community partnerships. This article describes the planning process in a partnership, named the e-City Initiative, between Jackson State University and its surrounding community. The article highlights the role of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning faculty in facilitating greater participation and decision-making of e-City inhabitants in the planning process. It provides the voice of residents, business owners and other stakeholders living, learning and working in e-City neighborhoods. The article concludes with observations about HBCU university–community partnerships involved in revitalization that engender citizen participation and social justice, and offers suggestions for increasing HBCU public scholarship in the planning and service learning literatures.
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A Participatory Planning Approach to Enhancing a Historically Black University–Community Partnership: The Case of the e-City Initiative
Planning Practice and Research, 2008Co-Authors: Jeffrey S LoweAbstract:Abstract Little is known about the involvement of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in university–community partnerships. This article describes the planning process in a partnership, named the e-City Initiative, between Jackson State University and its surrounding community. The article highlights the role of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning faculty in facilitating greater participation and decision-making of e-City inhabitants in the planning process. It provides the voice of residents, business owners and other stakeholders living, learning and working in e-City neighborhoods. The article concludes with observations about HBCU university–community partnerships involved in revitalization that engender citizen participation and social justice, and offers suggestions for increasing HBCU public scholarship in the planning and service learning literatures.