About this Research Topic
With the consensus of the 2 °C and 1.5 °C warming limits, 29 economies have formally put forward their carbon neutrality commitments through national legislation, submission agreements or policy statements. September 2020, China has delivered to the world that China will strive to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and carbon neutrality by 2060. At present, 54 countries have reached the carbon peak, and more and more countries are incorporating carbon neutrality into their national development strategies. The achievement of carbon peak and carbon neutral goal is a symbol of the man-land relationship coordination. Territorial space and natural resources are the basic carrier and key medium of carbon peak and carbon neutrality achievement. The approaches and strategies for the sustainable utilization of natural resources and spatial planning to achieve carbon neutral are deemed to be worth investigating, and geographical science will play an important role in this field.
This Research Topic on “Toward Carbon Neutrality: Spatial Planning and Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resource” mainly focuses on the methods and strategies in achieving decarbonization by sustainable utilization of natural resources (water, land, energy, and mineral resources) and spatial planning from the geography perspective, presenting a relevant opportunity for all scholars to share their knowledge from the multidisciplinary community across the world, including environmental scientists, social scientist and geographic scientist. For this topic, we also encourage reliable and effective empirical analysis and engineering practice of the process monitoring for the achievement of carbon peak, and the implementing effect of the negative emission technology (e.g., carbon capture and storage, ecosystem carbon sequestration) toward the carbon-neutral goal.
We welcome any study on the methods, strategies, and applications for achieving a carbon-neutral goal by the sustainable utilization of natural resource and spatial planning, case areas covering the national, regional and global scales. Topics of interest for the Research Topic include, but are not limited to:
• National space governance and carbon neutrality
• Regional variation for achieving carbon neutrality
• Implementation assessments of negative emission technologies toward carbon neutrality
• Evolution of geographical pattern toward carbon neutrality
• Comprehensive and regional assessments of natural resources for achieving carbon neutrality
• Carbon monitoring and accounting
• Multiple systems coupling of energy-water-land-mineral
• CO2 geological storage and utilization toward carbon neutrality
• Regional renewable energy resource potential and carbon neutrality
This Research Topic on “Toward Carbon Neutrality: Spatial Planning and Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resource” mainly focuses on the methods and strategies in achieving decarbonization by sustainable utilization of natural resources (water, land, energy, and mineral resources) and spatial planning from the geography perspective, presenting a relevant opportunity for all scholars to share their knowledge from the multidisciplinary community across the world, including environmental scientists, social scientist and geographic scientist. For this topic, we also encourage reliable and effective empirical analysis and engineering practice of the process monitoring for the achievement of carbon peak, and the implementing effect of the negative emission technology (e.g., carbon capture and storage, ecosystem carbon sequestration) toward the carbon-neutral goal.
We welcome any study on the methods, strategies, and applications for achieving a carbon-neutral goal by the sustainable utilization of natural resource and spatial planning, case areas covering the national, regional and global scales. Topics of interest for the Research Topic include, but are not limited to:
• National space governance and carbon neutrality
• Regional variation for achieving carbon neutrality
• Implementation assessments of negative emission technologies toward carbon neutrality
• Evolution of geographical pattern toward carbon neutrality
• Comprehensive and regional assessments of natural resources for achieving carbon neutrality
• Carbon monitoring and accounting
• Multiple systems coupling of energy-water-land-mineral
• CO2 geological storage and utilization toward carbon neutrality
• Regional renewable energy resource potential and carbon neutrality
Keywords: Carbon neutrality, Geographical science, Process monitoring, Implementation assessment, Coupled system of man-land relationship, Geographic information system (GIS)
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