Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China

BJ He, J Wang, J Zhu, J Qi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews urban heat (UrHT) challenges following the SBAR (situation,
background, assessment and recommendation) framework. The results indicate that …

Towards green roof implementation: Drivers, motivations, barriers and recommendations

G Zhang, BJ He - Urban forestry & urban greening, 2021 - Elsevier
The environmental challenges in cities urge people to explore feasible strategies for
resilient, sustainable, healthy and livable built environments, of which designing and …

The effects of low-carbon pilot policy on technological innovation: Evidence from prefecture-level data in China

C Zhu, CC Lee - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Using a balance panel dataset of 278 Chinese cities, this study is the first to employ a spatial
difference-in-differences (SDID) approach to investigate both the direct and indirect effects of …

Effects of China's pilot low-carbon city policy on carbon emission reduction: a quasi-natural experiment based on satellite data

W Huo, J Qi, T Yang, J Liu, M Liu, Z Zhou - Technological Forecasting and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Economic development has brought about global greenhouse gas emissions and thus
global climate change, which is a common challenge for all mankind that urgently needs to …

Local climate zone ventilation and urban land surface temperatures: Towards a performance-based and wind-sensitive planning proposal in megacities

J Yang, S Jin, X Xiao, C Jin, JC Xia, X Li… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Performance-based planning (PBP) is designed to determine city planning standards based
on local activity characteristics; however, there have been few practical applications of this …

Application and suitability analysis of the key technologies in nearly zero energy buildings in China

Z Liu, Y Liu, BJ He, W Xu, G Jin, X Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2019 - Elsevier
The energy consumption in buildings accounts for a significant proportion of total energy
and carbon emissions over the world. To reduce the building energy consumption and …

Towards the next generation of green building for urban heat island mitigation: Zero UHI impact building

BJ He - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019 - Elsevier
At present, cities are under the threats of global warming and urban heat island (UHI)
phenomenon, where buildings are an important cause and also the sufferer of urban …

Co-benefits approach: Opportunities for implementing sponge city and urban heat island mitigation

BJ He, J Zhu, DX Zhao, ZH Gou, JD Qi, J Wang - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Climate change and its impacts cannot be addressed once for all due to internal complexity.
Some implemented strategies may only be capable of dealing with a cluster of problems …

An evolutionary game analysis of governments' decision-making behaviors and factors influencing watershed ecological compensation in China

X Gao, J Shen, W He, F Sun, Z Zhang, W Guo… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
As a way to coordinate the interests of multi-government and solve the problem of
transboundary water pollution, watershed ecological compensation system has been …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability outcomes of green processes in relation to industry 4.0 in manufacturing: Systematic review

J Vrchota, M Pech, L Rolinek, J Bednář - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Green processes are very important for the implementation of green technologies in
production to achieve positive sustainability outcomes in the Industry 4.0 era. The scope of …