Green Design and Carbon Neutrality

This book focuses on the latest development of green design covering products, buildings and cities, including the related concepts, evaluation methods, and key technologies. It is divided into two parts, directly corresponding to the process from green design to carbon-neutral design. The first part comprehensively introduces contemporary green design from definitions, development, theoretical evolution, updated criteria, to evaluation methods. With a focus on green product design, green architecture design, and green city planning, it discusses evaluation methods and key technologies of green design. The second part systematically demonstrates the transformation of design paradigms from the perspective of carbon neutrality, from global Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality actions, carbon-neutral enterprises, carbon-neutral buildings, carbon-neutral cities, to evaluation methods and strategies for carbon-neutral design.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Author Biography

Jun Wang, Ph.D., China National Registered Planner, Dean and Professor of the School of Art Design and Media, East China University of Science and Technology. He presides over the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China. His research interests include green design and low carbon cities. He has published eight monographs, including Carbon Neutral Cities, Scenarios and Paths for Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality of Chinese Cities, Report on the Construction of Low Carbon Cities in China, as well as nearly one hundred papers.

Su Xu, Ph.D., China National Registered Planner, Associate Professor at the Department of Landscape Planning and Design, East China University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the Youth Editorial Board of the ‘Journal of Research on International Metropolitan Development’, and a member of the Special Committee on New Urbanization and Urban-Rural Planning of the China Urban Science Association. Her research interests include urban and regional green sustainable development, big data and geographic information analysis. She has presided over two provincial and ministerial projects, published two monographs and more than 20 papers.

Xuezhi Duan, Ph.D., presided over the Chinese National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation and honored as a National Level Talent of China. He is the Chairman of the Committee and Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology. His research interests include mesoscopic catalytic reaction engineering, green low-carbon new reactions and new technologies. He has presided over more than 30 projects at all levels, published more than 270 academic papers, and authorized more than 20 invention patents. He has been awarded the first prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award, the second prize of Ministry of Education’s Natural Science Award, and the first prize of two industry associations.