Overview
- Offers insights to sustainable development from the perspective of resources and energy
- Shares a cross-disciplinary research aiming at low-carbon transition based on China’s practice
- Contributes to a more integrated understanding of main themes and their relationships in the area of resources, energy, and sustainable development
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This book explores sustainable development from the perspective of resources and energy, based on China’s practical experience and cross-disciplinary research. It focuses on major challenges, key solutions and policy recommendations, and studies and explores seven important themes of resources, energy and sustainable development, including: 1) China’s low-carbon energy transition, 2) China’s urbanization and low-carbon development, 3) China’s low-carbon action in cities, 4) China’s low-carbon power transition, 5) China’s water resources management, 6) electric vehicle development and key metal resources and 7) China’s low-carbon development of the iron & steel industry. This book contributes to a more integrated understanding of many themes and their relationships in the area of resources, energy and sustainable development and guides the related policy and management.
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Book Title: China’s Resources, Energy and Sustainable Development: 2020
Editors: Tsinghua-Rio Tinto Joint Research Centre for Resources, Energy and Sustainable Development, Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6100-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Tsinghua-Rio Tinto Joint Research Centre for Resources, Energy and Sustainable Development, Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6099-0Published: 17 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6102-7Published: 18 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6100-3Published: 16 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Earth Sciences, general, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Earth System Sciences