Liyin Shen

Chongqing University | CQU

Developing low-carbon cities (LCC) is a strategic measure to mitigate climate change. This study proposes to diagnose LCC performance from a dual perspective in order to identify problematic areas for improvement. The dual perspective refers to management processes (including Plan, Do, Check, and Act) and low carbon city performance dimensions (nam...

Resilience is a flourishing topic in recent years, whose key is to help cities to absorb, recover and adapt after being disturbed. Cities are the main carriers to support human activities, whose resilience appealed numerous experts’ attention, both in theoretical and practical. Therefore, this paper mainly conducted a systematic review on urban res...

Human capital (HC) plays a crucial role in economic growth, and also has a considerable effect on environmental performance, including carbon emissions (CEs). Existing studies have drawn inconsistent conclusions on whether and how HC affects CEs, and most of them conduct case studies of a certain country or several countries with similar economic b...

As urbanization continues to accelerate worldwide, the consequential rise in CO2 emissions has caused substantial environmental challenges. Urban regeneration has emerged as a promising approach to reducing carbon emissions and developing low-carbon cities. Even though both urban regeneration and carbon emissions reduction have been researched from...

Urbanization and eco-efficiency are two interactive systems, contributing to sustainable urban development jointly. However, the synchronized development between them has not received sufficient attention. In light of this gap, this paper conducts an analysis on seeking the synchronized development between sustainable urbanization and eco-efficienc...

Effective land use contributes to sustainable urban development. However, there are various reports suggesting that urban land resources used mismatch to different extents in many Chinese cities. This study measures the degree of the mismatch phenomenon in utilizing urban land resources from a supply–demand perspective, and a mismatching coefficien...

Rapid development of the tourism industry has brought various challenges by causing unbalance between tourism resource load (TRL) and tourism resource carrier (TRC), such as the decline in tourist satisfaction, and the destruction of tourist attractions. The concept of tourism resources carrying capacity (TRCC) can be used to describe the relations...

To address the challenge of global tourism resources being overloaded or underutilization, there requires an adequate method for assessing the tourism resource carrying capacity (TRCC). However, the majority of previous evaluation perspectives on TRCC are limited by thresholds. This paper develops an innovative approach for assessing TRCC from the...

Understanding how urban form (UF) affects CO2 emissions is important to reduce emissions in the practice of urban planning and management. This study investigates the spatiotemporal impacts of UF on CO2 emissions by using Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR) model, in which UF is characterized by metrics across three dimensions...

Urban transportation is a complex system typically composed of car, bus, non-motorized, and metro travel modes, which connects various residential traveling and transport facilities. It is important to have a proper method to facilitate understanding on urban transportation carrying capacity (UTCC) of individual types of travel modes and the balanc...

The rapid urbanization process in China has resulted in a large number of carbon emissions. Practicing low-carbon city (LCC) strategy is considered as a key pathway towards carbon reduction, and a dimensional analysis on LCC performance can identify weak areas of a city's low-carbon development, from which tailored LCC measures can be developed and...

The socioeconomic costs of traffic congestion are crippling in urbanising China. This study is a first attempt to explore the spatiotemporal pattern of traffic congestion performance in 77 Chinese large cities by using real-time big data. Based upon the hourly real-time traffic performance index data collected between August 27, 2019 to September 2...

As one of the largest carbon emitters worldwide, China has promised to peak its carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve national carbon neutrality by 2060. In order to achieve the carbon reduction goal, the low-carbon pilot (LCP) program has been implemented in China since 2010. It is particularly significant to recognise the effectiveness of the LCP...

Encountered with scarce land resources in contemporary time, mankind has been seeking for solutions to improve land resource carrying capacity to sustain urban development. The development pattern of urban agglomeration has been well received globally in recent years as an alternative strategy to improve land resource carrying capacity. Many countr...

Understanding the relationship between resource environment carrying capacity (RECC) and urbanization quality (UQ) is of great significance for the new urbanization strategy. Different from previous studies which mainly focused on the coordination degree between urbanization and RECC, this study explores the environmental Kuznets curve relationship...

If land resources are forced to withstand greater populations than they are able to withstand, irreversible damage to the land resources system will happen in a specific region. This challenge highlights the urgency of appropriately evaluating the land resources carrying capacity (LRCC). A proper level of the capacity can ensure that land resources...

With the rapid development of urbanization, it is necessary to understand the evolution of land resource carrying capacity (LRCC), so as to avoid irreversible damage to the land resources system in a specific region. Therefore, this paper aims to study the evolution of LRCC by four carrying status intervals of land resources. LRCC based on an evolu...

Smart City conception has become a global trend with the advancement of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Many cities have proposed Smart City development strategies to capture the opportunities brought by ICTs. However, little attention has been given to investigate whether and how Smart City acts upon human happiness. To fill this...

Urban atmospheric environment protection is an important strategy for sustainable urban development. Nevertheless, serious atmospheric pollution problems caused by socioeconomic activities have become a global issue, which brings enormous pressure on human health. However, as the core of urban sustainability, the human health risk is not adopted as...

The unsafe behavior of construction workers has been widely recognized as the key contributor to accidents in the construction industry. Studies claim that cognitive factors are the antecedents of safety behaviors. The construction industry is stressful. Although the interaction between stress and unsafe behaviors has been reported, it remains uncl...

Infrastructure provision is widely emphasised amid industrialisation, modernisation and urbanisation, for which plenty efforts have been devoted across countries globally. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the shortage or over-supply of urban infrastructures has already induced various urban symptoms, such as urban storm water runoff, urban hea...

Extant studies have presented various indexes for evaluating urban carrying capacity (UCC), but there is no consistent perspective on UCC. This paper presents a guiding index framework from a holistic perspective as a reference guidance for evaluating urban carrying capacity (UCC). The framework is developed based upon the theory of sustainable urb...

Peri-urban areas are transitional urban areas with urban-rural mixed landscape and functions, and the positive change of peri-urban areas is essential to achieve the mission of urban-rural integrated development. The accurate identification of the spatial scope of peri-urban areas is a prerequisite for managing such areas, and a scientific understa...

Urban Public Service Carrying Capacity plays an essential role in urban social and economic development. However, existing study has been focused on the evaluation of UPSCC from a quantitative perspective. It is necessary to evaluate UPSCC from a qualitative–quantitative bi-dimensional perspective. This paper establishes an innovative evaluation me...

Urban municipal infrastructures play an essential role in urban social and economic development. However, the imbalance between the supply and demand of urban municipal infrastructures appears a common problem in cities. This presents an urgent need for a proper method to investigate the carrying capacity of urban municipal infrastructures in the p...

The contradiction between industrial development (ID) and land resource carrying capacity (LRCC) is increasingly intensified with the rapid advancement of urbanization globally. This typical phenomenon exists particularly in these developing countries or regions. This study investigated the matching degree (MD) between ID and LRCC by using a coupli...

Cities with different development backgrounds and characteristics will set different objectives for promoting low carbon city practice, including overall, dimensional, and executable objectives. Therefore, a method is needed to ensure that the selected indicators are tailor-made and can correspond to objectives. The existing methods for selecting L...

The building sector accounts for the largest proportion of global carbon emissions. The implementation of a market-based emission trading scheme offers a wider range of strategic choices and greater flexibility for building owners to reduce carbon emissions, but few of them are enthusiastic and actively engaged. To address the problem, this study e...

Both contractors and governments are eager for a model that can assist them to examine the impact of environmental policy instruments (EPIs) on construction equipment replacement from a stochastic perspective. Therefore, this study introduces an improved stochastic life cycle cost (LCC) analysis model and designs eight scenarios in which different...

Carbon emission reduction in the Chinese cities can make significant contributions to the mission of global emission reduction. Therefore, the promotion of low-carbon cities (LCC) in China is of great importance to achieve this mission. This paper examines the performance of practicing LCC in China by conducting a temporal-spatial evolution analysi...

Tourism is an important part of urban economic development and can contribute to environmental protection. It is still great significance to the sustainable development of cities. This paper formulates an assessment model of urban tourism resource carrying capacity (UTRCC) from the “carrier-load” perspective. This model can be used to assess whethe...

Cities are the primary area for the socioeconomic activities of human beings. In line with the unprecedented and continuous urbanization process, those mega cities worldwide have kept receiving plenty of in-flow immigrate populations, which present significant pressure upon the environment and resources systems of urban contexts. Therefore, the dis...

Decoupling between urban economic growth (EG) and carbon emissions (CEs) has become a common goal globally for sustainable development. As the largest carbon emitter in the world, China has been attempting to reduce its carbon emissions in order to achieve the emission reduction goal promised to the world. This study examines the performance of dec...

Developing low carbon city (LCC) has been widely appreciated as the key strategy for achieving emission mitigation goal. Despite the impact factors on cities’ carbon emission reduction have been extensively studied in recent years, little attention has been paid to investigating the key driving force (KDF) on the development of LCC. This study aims...

Carbon emissions are considered as major factor affecting sustainable urban development. Cities have been promoting low carbon city (LCC) strategies to reduce carbon emissions and various methods have been introduced to assess the performance of LCC strategies. However, most of the existing assessment methods focus on overall LCC performance at cit...

With the rapid process of urbanization, the contradiction between resource environment and economic development is increasingly prominent. Correctly understanding and evaluating urban carrying capacity is urgent for promoting sustainable social progress. Although substantial studies of urban carrying capacity have been conducted, existing indicator...

Due to the severe problems caused by huge amount of carbon emissions generation, implementing effectively measures has become an emerging topic around the world. China has set up targets of reducing carbon emissions by 60−65% to 2005 in 2030 in Treaty of Paris. With expectations for energy saving and low carbon emission in construction industry, gr...

China has been witnessing an unprecedented urbanization process since the implementation of reform and opening policy in 1980s. And the blueprint of Chinese urbanization program will continue for the coming future. Nevertheless, the rapid urbanization progress in China has been consuming vast amount of resources, and the conflicts between limited r...

Policy instruments have been initiated for addressing the severe problem of extensive construction equipment emissions (CEE) by governments around the world. Advanced and developing-economy promoters with distinctive background and constraints present differences in the development of CEE reduction policy instruments. However, there is little resea...

Spatial accessibility to medical services (SAMS) is one of the most important indicators to examine the convenience for people to get access to medical services. In China, the difficulty in getting access to medical services is a commonly appreciated social problem. To mitigate this problem, Chinese government established the hierarchical diagnosis...

With the increasing need of sustainable development globally, many world-leading construction companies have devoted great efforts to implementing sustainable practices. RobecoSAM publishes Sustainability Yearbook annually since 2004, which lists the sustainability leaders in various industries, including construction industry. Learning from those...

Urban infrastructures include a wide range of functional infrastructures, such as water-supply infrastructures, gas-supply infrastructures, and transportation infrastructures etc. Nevertheless, it appears that the carrying capacity of these functional urban infrastructures is not properly evaluated during rampant urban development process, which ha...

Urban Infrastructure Economic Capacity (UIEC) is one of the most important capacities of urban infrastructure carrying capacity, which is an essential determinant of sustainable urban development. However, it appears that UIEC is not properly investigated during the urban development process, for which establishing an appropriate method is imperati...

The past few decades witness a typical urbanization era in large developing countries such as China. In line with the urbanization process, land resources have inevitably presented a series of changes. The evolution of urban land carrying capacity (ULCC) is appreciated as a yardstick for guiding towards sustainable urban development. This paper the...

Research interests in urban carrying capacity (UCC) in the contemporary urbanizing China have been growing in recent years, which results in the development of a large body of related articles. This research examines the research evolution in the discipline of UCC in the Chinese context. It is considered important to understand this research evolut...

Development for townships is an important driving force for new-type urbanization of China. However, it appears that the level of the development between different towns is severely unbalanced. This unbalanced development phenomenon has resulted in various problems such as poor living environment and brain drain in less developed towns. This paper...

Effective ecological carrying capacity (ECC) is the precondition for implementing sustainable urbanization in China. However, different regions in a big country such as China have different ecological conditions and different development modes. Therefore, the evolution of ECC is different between different regions during the urbanization process in...

Many regions globally have been facing the challenges of water scarcity and water pollution along with the rampant urbanization process. These challenges highlight the urgency to investigate appropriately the regional water resource carrying capacity (RWRCC) which is a metric for examining and guiding sustainable regional development. Although exis...

Urbanization has prompted a dramatic social and economic development during the past decades in China. As a long-term national strategy, urbanization can only be implemented effectively with sufficient and sustainable ecological environment resources. By appreciating that the ecological environment carrying capacity (EECC) is a yardstick for guidin...

China has been implementing huge scale of urbanization in the past several decades and this will continue in the coming future years. Whilst the urbanization growth has presented good benefits to social and economic development in China, it has also brought severe challenges to the resource environment carrying capacity, such as air pollution, over...

Urban resources environment carrying capacity (URECC) is considered as a significant yardstick for guiding the practice towards sustainable urban development. It helps measure the interaction between human activities and urban resources environment system. Although existing studies on URECC have made great progress, there is still no consensus on t...

Developing low carbon city (LCC) has been widely appreciated as an important strategy for sustainable development. In line with this, an increasing number of cities globally have launched low carbon practices in recent years and gained various types of experience. However, it appears that existing studies do not present methods of how to use these...

Using kernel density analysis in Arc GIS and Geo Detector tools, this paper proposes a method to investigate the spatial heterogeneity of consumption vibrancy and its driving factors in large cities, and takes Chengdu as an example to conduct an empirical analysis. The empirical results show that:(a) the spatial distribution of urban consumption vi...

Transportation has significantly boomed energy consumption and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Understanding and forecasting the dynamic statuses of transportation CO2 emissions is a necessary step before making strategies to decrease CO2 emissions. Carbon Kuznets curve (CKC) hypothesis has been frequently validated properly to present the changing...

The manufacturing and construction industries have significantly contributed to the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is widely leveraged to analyze the peak of CO2 emissions, which is considered as a pivotal step for the effective CO2 emission reduction in previous studies. This study tests th...

With an increasing global need for sustainable development, numerous world‐leading construction corporations have devoted significant efforts to implementing sustainable practices. However, few previous studies have shared these valuable experiences in a systematic and quantitative way. RobecoSAM has published The Sustainability Yearbook annually s...

The development of urban infrastructures has been playing a key role in the urbanization process in China over last several decades. Great scale of urban infrastructures has been built and it is anticipated that great number of more will be built in the near future in the country. This paper examines whether these built infrastructures have been ef...

With the advent of the era of global ecological limits, natural capital has become absolutely scarce. How to improve the level of human well-being within the ecological limits is the ultimate goal of sustainable development. China is challenged to improve ecological well-being performance (EWP), predominantly in urban areas. This paper presents an...

Cities globally are developing rapidly, and the contradictions between urban development and urban carrying capacity (UCC) are increasingly prominent. Various UCC evaluating indicators have been introduced as main instruments for investigating the performance of UCC. However, understanding on the effectiveness of these UCC indicators has drawn litt...

Many cities are pursuing low-carbon practices in order to reduce carbon emissions. In line with this, various low-carbon city (LCC) indicator systems have been established across the world. However, there are only few studies available investigating if the established LCC indicators have been effectively utilized in practice. Through a comprehensiv...

As a typical component in particulate matter, respirable suspended particles (PM2.5) can cause increased morbidity and mortality from cystic fibrosis, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. China, with the largest population in the world, is challenged with sever PM2.5 concentration, particularly in the urban area. Understanding the key factors i...

Bamboo is commonly considered as a green, environmentally friendly material. However, it appears that bamboo finds limited application in the form of green building materials in the Chinese construction sector. In order to explain this phenomenon and promote the material’s application, this study summarizes the benefits of applying bamboo materials...

Reducing the total CO2 emissions intensity (TCEI) in the Chinese construction industry is an important strategy to cut its CO2 emissions, which share a considerable proportion of sectoral CO2 emissions in China. However, there is lack of an in-depth analysis of the effect of production structure on the TCEI. This study comprehensively investigates...

The world has witnessed unparalleled economic development over the past decades, but accompanied by large amount of carbon emissions, which triggered the global warming. It is critical for the global sustainable development by decoupling economic growth from carbon emissions at country level, specifically for the largest emitter, China. This study...

It is commonly acknowledged that China and USA are the two largest carbon emitters in the world, but the differences in the emissions between the two countries is significant. This paper reveals the carbon emissions difference in the context of construction industry. The drivers contributing to the difference are analyzed by the structural decompos...

Urbanization is commonly described as the process of population flow from rural to urban areas. As the largest developing country, China has experienced an unprecedentedly fast and large urbanization process since 1980s, which will continue for the coming future. The immense scale of the process has brought multidimensional benefits across all sect...

Recognition of key emission sectors is crucial for carbon reduction. This study identifies key emission sectors and analyzes driving and driven effects of these sectors in the context of China. The Input–Output approach is used to identify key emission sectors. The data used for analysis are collected from Input–Output Table and Energy Statistical...