East Asian Low-Carbon Community

Weisheng Zhou, Ph.D., Professor of College of Policy Science, founding director of Research Center for Sustainability Science, Ritsumeikan University. Director of Research Institute of Global 3E; Secretary-general of the Belt and Road Initiative Japan Research Center; Served as Visiting Professor at Osaka University, Zhejiang University, Peking University, etc., and as Research Counsellor to the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE). Majored in energy systems engineering, environmental policy and policy engineering. Xuepeng Qian, Ph.D., Associate Professor of College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University; Vice Director of Research Center for Sustainability Science, Ritsumeikan University. Served as lecturer at Department of Environmental Systems Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. Majored in urban and regional planning, resource recycling, social system and environmental system engineering. Ken’ichi Nakagami, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Ritsumeikan University and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. Currently Senior Researcher of Research Organization of Open Innovation and Collaboration and Research Center for Sustainability Science, Ritsumeikan University. Honorary president of International Centre of Research and Information on the Collective Economy – Japan (CIRIEC-Japan). Majored in water management and sustainability science.

Part I. Concept and framework of the East Asian Low-Carbon Community.- Chapter 1. Climate change and low carbon society: coping with uncertainty.- Chapter 2. Climate change strategy and emission reduction roadmap for China, Japan, and South Korea.- Chapter 3. Concept and framework of the East Asian Low-Carbon Community.- Chapter 4. Modeling an East Asian Low-Carbon Community.- Part II Urban-rural Linkage for Low-Carbon Community.- Chapter 5. Realizing a local low-carbon society through urban-rural linkage.- Chapter 6. Development of a tool to optimize urban-rural linkage and a decentralized power supply.- Chapter 7. Local low-carbon society scenarios of urban-rural linkage.- Part III Technology Innovation for Low-Carbon Community.- Chapter 8. Spatial-temporal distribution of carbon capture technology according to patent data.- Chapter 9. Low-carbon technology integration.- Chapter 10. Economic assessment of Japan’s nuclear power policy.- Chapter 11. Construction of an East Asia nuclearsecurity system.- Chapter 12. Building a global low-carbon society based on hybrid use of natural clean energy.- Part Ⅳ Social Innovation for Low-Carbon Community.- Chapter 13. Social innovation towards a low-carbon society.- Chapter 14. Achievement of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) through emissions trading in China, Japan, and South Korea.- Chapter 15. Design and analysis of a carbon emissions trading system for low-carbon development in China.- Chapter 16. An empirical analysis of international carbon transfer.- Chapter 17. Global recycling system for an East Asian low-carbon society.- Chapter 18. Building a recycling-oriented society through collaboration between urban and rural areas: sustainable domestic waste treatment “Pujiang model”.- Chapter 19. Potential for cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea in renewable energy generation.- Chapter 20. Potential for technical cooperation between Japan and China in a third-country market.- Chapter  22. End chapter: Integration of local and global perspectives.