What Are the Driving Forces of Urban CO₂ Emissions in China? A Refined Scale Analysis between National and Urban Agglomeration Levels.

ABSTRACT: With the advancement of society and the economy, environmental problems have increasingly emerged, in particular, problems with urban CO₂ emissions. Exploring the driving forces of urban CO₂ emissions is necessary to gain a better understanding of the spatial patterns, processes, and mechanisms of environmental problems. Thus, the purpose of this study was to quantify the driving forces of urban CO₂ emissions from 2000 to 2015 in China, including explicit consideration of a comparative analysis between national and urban agglomeration levels. Urban CO₂ emissions with a 1-km spatial resolution were extracted for built-up areas based on the anthropogenic carbon dioxide (ODIAC) fossil fuel emission dataset. Six factors, namely precipitation, slope,

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6801949 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature