%0 Journal Article
%T An Empirical Research on Evaluation of Low-Carbon Economy in Guangdong Province, China: Based on ¡°Production, Life and Environment¡±
%A Chunrong Liu
%A Yaoqiu Kuang
%A Ningsheng Huang
%A Xiuming Liu
%J Low Carbon Economy
%P 139-152
%@ 2158-7019
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/lce.2014.54015
%X In order to promote the
development of Low-carbon economy (LCE), it is important to establish a
scientific LCE quantitative evaluation system. Based on the concept of ¡°life,
production and environment¡±, this paper builds the decomposition models of
carbon emission influencing factors from these three aspects and inductively
analyzes the factors influencing LCE development. According to these factors,
this paper correspondingly builds a quantitative evaluation index system of LCE, which makes up the deficiency
in selection index in theory. The evaluation of LCE in Guangdong Province is carried out by
applying the analytic hierarchy process, entropy method and composite index
method. Results showed that the development of LCE in Guangdong was on the
decline during the period of 2000-2012 and the rapid economic growth in
Guangdong was achieved at the expense of the environment. Therefore, this paper
puts forward some suggestions that Guangdong should improve the utilization of
clean energy, pay attention to the optimization of energy mix from household
and productive sector, and attach equal importance to the structure
optimization when enlarging its foreign trade scale. In addition, with limited
land resources, Guangdong should take into account the common development of
production, life and environment in land planning.
%K Carbon Emission
%K Low-Carbon Economy
%K Quantitative Evaluation
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51302