Carbon Neutrality and Multi-Dimensional Sustainable Urbanization in the Era of Climate Change and Anthropocene

Dear Colleagues,

Global large-scale urbanization and climate change has created indisputable facts and outstanding challenges that are a common concern of mankind. Interestingly, large-scale urbanization is both a cause of and a solution to climate change. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged that China would achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. This announcement is of great significance for the realization of global carbon emission reduction and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and also sets a new target for China to deal with climate change and green and low-carbon development. The new target of the achievement of carbon neutrality before 2060 has an important impact on the process of carbon reduction, and large-scale urbanization needs to adjust and transition according to it. Thus, it is essential to explore the roadmap for achieving carbon neutrality from the perspective of sustainable urbanization, to promote the transition of large-scale urbanization for green development, to establish and develop the frontier interdisciplinary field of carbon emissions and sustainable urbanization, to provide suggestions for the layout of science and technology, to improve the sustainability of China’s dramatic urbanization process, and to play a scientific supporting role for China’s new-type urbanization and carbon emission reduction-related policy. This Special Issue welcomes theoretical discussions, innovative methods, applied case studies, review articles, and policy papers that connect carbon neutrality and multi-dimensional sustainable urbanization with the themes of resilience, sustainable development, and sustainability.

Prof. Dr. Mingxing Chen
Prof. Dr. Chao Ye
Dr. Zhipeng Tang
Prof. Dr. Baoshi Jin
Dr. Xiaoping Zhang
Guest Editors

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• carbon neutrality
• sustainable urbanization
• climate change
• urban resilience
• urban sustainability
• rapid urbanization compact cities
• human–land–atmosphere coupling
• adaptation and mitigation
• spatial analysis
• sustainable development
• rural–urban governance
• rural–urban relations
• energy consumption
• carbon reduction
• embodied carbon emission
• urban ecology
• urban wetland