Regional household carbon footprint in China a case of Liaoning province》.pdf

Journal of Cleaner Production xxx (2015) 1 e11 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Cleaner Production journal homepage: /locate/jclepro Regional household carbon footprint in China: a case of Liaoning province Xu Tian a, d, Yong Geng b, *, Huijuan Dong c, Liang Dong c, Tsuyoshi Fujita c, Yutao Wang e, Hongyan Zhao f, Rui Wu a, d, Zhe Liu a, Lu Sun c a Key Lab on Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China b School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China c National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba 305-8506, Japan d University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China e Shandong University, Shandong 250100, China f Tsinghua University, Beijing 110000, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: With the rapid development, household energy consumption has become major driving force inducing Received 1 April 2015 higher energy consumption and corresponding carbon emissions. As the largest developing country, Received in revised form Chinas household energy consumption has grown quickly over the last two decades due to improved 2 May 2015 living standards and rapid urbanization. Thus, it is necessary to study household carbon footprint and Accepted 25 May 2015 Available online xxx identity the key driving forces so that appropriate mitigation policies can be raised. Under