Xiangnan Song

Chongqing University | CQU · School of Construction Management and Real Estate

Eco-feedback has been considered as a promising approach to facilitating residential energy-saving behavior recently. However, the mechanism that how personality traits affect effectiveness of eco-feedback with different information delivery method is still unknown. To fill the knowledge gap, an energy conservation field experiment was conducted in...

The construction industry contributes significantly to CO2 emissions in China. Understanding the changes in construction CO2 emissions is important for mitigating the emissions. This study examined the structural paths of changes in construction CO2 emissions in China during 2002-2017 by using structural path decomposition analysis. The results dem...

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...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR), as companies’ commitment to the sustainable development of the whole society, is an important approach for construction companies to respond to the emerging social and environmental issues. As the improvement of CSR efficiency leads to the reduction of CSR cost, CSR efficiency is becoming increasingly prominen...

Building sector is a significant contributor to the global warming and thus the control of carbon emissions from buildings has received unprecedented attention. While China is pioneering in including building sector in its Emission Trading System (ETS) pilots, there is few practical trading. This study investigates the reasons of lack trading via e...

Building sector is commonly appreciated as a major contributor to the global warming. Hence, the control of energy consumption and carbon emissions from buildings has received unprecedented attention and concern by Chinese government and practitioners. This study is to present an optimization model to quantitatively assess carbon reduction strategi...

With China's rapid urbanization and industrialization, carbon emission in Chinese cities deserve special attention, and promoting low-carbon city (LCC) is considered essential for China. However, different cities present different development stages and carbon emission scenarios. This study presents the factors affecting carbon emission by introduc...

In assuming its commitments to the reduction of CO2 emissions, China is contributing great efforts to mitigate CO2 emissions across its all economic sectors including construction industry. The Chinese construction industry, which refers to the aggregation of construction activities, is one of the main contributors to CO2 emissions in China. This p...

In recent 20 years, the dramatic economic development in China has also triggered a number of environmental problems such as fast-growing of resource consumption, air pollution, soil erosion and water pollution. This unsustainable economic development pattern will gradually become the bottleneck and impede the further development of the Chinese eco...

The living standards particularly in urban areas in China have been improving over last few decades and will continue to grow. This development will affect the amount of energy consumption on urban residential buildings. This paper presents the findings about the effects of improving living standards on the energy consumption for urban residential...

Emission Trading System (ETS) has been promoted as a tool for providing financial and cost-effective incentives to the GHG emitters to implement emission reduction measures. The ETS has been applied in many energy-intensive industries internationally. However, its implementation in building sector appears encountering many challenges due to the uni...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as a comprehensive environmental assessment approach has been widely adopted to evaluate the environmental impacts of many building materials. However, only a few life cycle inventories (LCIs) have been developed in certain countries with prevailing boundaries and scopes which prevent them from being applied directly to...

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) as the emerging leading powers in the world have great influence on the world development. Urbanization process has been a significant engine for development in these countries, which has important effect on the sustainable development globally. However, rapid urbanization has induced various pr...

Urbanization, particularly in developing countries, is a major strategy for development. However, major concerns accompany it, such as air pollution, habitat destruction, and loss of arable land. In responding to these challenges, governments throughout the world have been implementing various policy mechanisms to guide the practice of urbanization...

The Emission Trading System has been promoted as a tool for providing financial and cost-effective incentives to carbon emitters to apply emission reduction measures. The mechanism of Emission Trading System has been applied in many energy-intensive industries such as electric power industry. However, it appears that Emission Trading System finds l...

Policy instrument is the key to drive improving energy-efficiency in building sectors. This paper presents the current development of BEE policy instruments by examining their practices in seven selected countries and regions. These policy instruments are classified into three groups: the mandatory administration instrument, the economic incentive...

Building energy-efficiency (BEE) is the key to drive the promotion of energy saving in building sector. A large variety of building energy-efficiency policy instrument exist. Some are mandatory, some are soft scheme, and some use economic incentives from country to country. This paper presents the current development of implementing BEE policy inst...