Carbon Emission Governance Zones at the County Level to Promote Sustainable Development | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
February 2021
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
10.3390/land10020197
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© 2021 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article.

Low-carbon governance at the county level has been an important issue for sustainable development due to the large contributions to carbon emission. However, the experiences of carbon emission governance at the county level are lacking. This paper discusses 5 carbon emission governance zones for 1753 counties. The zoning is formed according to a differentiated zoning method based on a multi-indicator evaluation to judge if the governance had better focus and had formulated a differentiated carbon emission governance system. According to zoning results, there is 1 high-carbon governance zone, 2 medium-carbon governance zones, and 2 low-carbon zones. The extensive high-carbon governance zone and medium-carbon zones are key governance areas, in which the counties are mainly located in the northern plain areas and southeast coastal areas and have contributed 51.88% of total carbon emissions. This paper proposes differentiated governance standards for each indicator of the 5 zones. The differentiated zoning method mentioned in this paper can be applied to other governance issues of small-scale regions.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Zhang, He
Peng, Jingyi
Yu, Dahlia
You, Lie
Wang, Rui

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