Special Issue on: “Low Carbon Initiatives in Asian Cities"

International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development

(IRSPSD International)

On-line submission

 

Guest Editor:

Guangwei HUANG, Prof., Sophia University

Email: huang@genv.sophia.ac.jp

 

Standards and indicators are needed for measuring carbon performance of a city. How to account for carbon emissions in various locations is a key issue in urban planning and development. Nevertheless, the relationship between carbon emitted in a city and its underlying drivers – population, economic structure, energy source, transport and built infrastructure, and urban services – is complicated. This complexity makes it especially hard to evaluate planning alternatives for low carbon city. Therefore, methodological development for evaluating a city from low carbon perspective is an important and urgent task for the sake of achieving an efficient and sustainable human dwelling.

 

In this issue, we focus on how and what kinds of the standards of measuring low carbon cities have been formulated in different Asian cities and how efforts to reduce carbon emissions in spatial development projects have been made in planning practice.

 

 

Subject Coverage

“Low Carbon Initiatives in Asian Cities” including the following aspects, but not limited:

 

Spatial development for low carbon city

Low carbon economics

Urban energy use

Urban transport

Urban Municipal services

 

 

 

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All papers are refereed through a double-blind review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the on-line submission page

 

Important Dates

 

Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 15 December, 2012

Communication of peer review to authors: 20 January, 2013

Deadline for revised manuscripts: 12 February 2013