Comparing household greenhouse gas emissions across Canadian cities

Fercovic, Juan; Gulati, Sumeet

doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2016.06.010

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“…The seminal study by Newman and Kenworthy of 32 cities from around the world shows a clear negative relationship between population density and fuel consumption [20]. Subsequent efforts have produced a deeper understanding by probing the trends and patterns of changes in the said relationships over a long period [48].…”

Section: The Impacts Of Urban Density On Fossil Energy Consumption and Ghg/co 2 Emissionsmentioning

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Untangling Urban Sprawl and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature on Physical Planning and Transportation Drivers

Qiu

Gauthier

2021

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Significant efforts have been dedicated to studying the linkages between urban form, fossil energy consumption, and climate change. The theme of urban sprawl helped to federate a significant portion of such efforts. Yet, the research appears fragmented, at stems from different disciplines and mobilizes different methods to probe different aspects of the issue. This paper seeks to better understand the status of knowledge concerning the linkages between sprawl and climate change through a critical review of the literature published between 1979 and 2018. The exercise entailed revisiting how sprawl has been defined, characterized and measured, and how such parameters have informed the research themes and the approaches mobilized to study its impacts on climate change. For, sprawled environments contribute the climate change directly and indirectly, due to the individual or combined effects of its land use, land cover, urban form, and transportation characteristics. The results indicate that sprawl’s impacts have been mainly investigated in three principal streams of research and based on a limited number of factors or combinations of factors. Though a strong consensus emerges on the negative environmental costs of sprawl, including toward climate change, there remain ambiguities when trying to untangle and weigh specific causes.

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Section: The Impacts Of Urban Density On Fossil Energy Consumption and Ghg/co 2 Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The impacts of land use and land cover on fossil energy consumption and GHG/CO 2 emissions[36] (p [47][48]…”

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Untangling Urban Sprawl and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature on Physical Planning and Transportation Drivers

Qiu

Gauthier

2021

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“…Moreover, the benefits of urban densification in terms of reduced lifecycle GHG emissions for transport and building construction is undoubted (Bergesen et al 2017, Göswein et al 2017, Fercovic and Gulati 2016. In this respect, the current Norwegian building industry is investigating the opportunities for combining the goals of urban densification with the use of wood in building construction.…”

Section: Wooden Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (Nzebs) In Norwaymentioning

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Costs and Procurement for Cross-Laminated Timber in Mid-Rise Buildings

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Lolli²

2019

sace

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The objective of this paper is to report and analyse strategies for cost reduction, design processes, and procurement models of one wooden nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) in Norway. The building investigated in this paper is the Moholt Allmenning, a newly-built student accommodation located in Moholt, Trondheim. Interviews with the building's owner and the contractor were carried out to obtain information on the decision-making process during the procurement phase, the planning phase, and the execution phase. The results show that the environmental goal and the criteria set for the use of wood in the tender announcement were a critical driving force for choosing cross laminated timber (CLT) in the final design. The results also show that the cost of using CLT in student residences is competitive against using concrete and steel. Given the requirement of little greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from materials production in nZEBs, the use of CLT is however a better choice. The objective of this paper is to report and analyse strategies for cost reduction, design processes, and procurement models of one wooden nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) in Norway. This publication is part of the dissemination activities of the EU Horizon 2020 project NERO, whose scope is to demonstrate the feasibility of cost reduction of nZEBs built with wood in the Nordic Countries. Case buildings from Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are studied with respect to their technological solutions, energy use, and construction cost. The Norwegian building investigated in this paper is the Moholt Allmenning, a newly-built student accommodation located in Moholt, Trondheim. Interviews with the building's owner and the contractor were carried out to obtain information on the decision-making process during the procurement phase, the planning phase, and the execution phase. The results show that the environmental goal and the criteria set for the use of wood in the tender announcement were a critical driving force for choosing cross laminated timber (CLT) in the final design. The results also show that the cost of using CLT in student residences is competitive against using concrete and steel. Given the requirement of little greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from materials production in nZEBs, the use of CLT is however a better choice.

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“…Within Ontario, the city of Toronto, which is the most populous in Canada, averages annual per capita consumption GHG emissions between 16 and 21 tCO 2 e [ 11 ]. While Toronto does not have the highest household per capita GHG emissions in Canada, opportunities nevertheless exist to reduce GHG emissions at the personal level through reduced household consumption [ 12 , 13 ]. Globally, household consumption accounts for about two-thirds of GHG emissions, including direct emissions through personal transportation, energy use within the home and indirect emissions through food [ 2 ].…”

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The complex relationship between carbon literacy and pro-environmental actions among engineering students

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MacLean,

Tihanyi

et al. 2023

Heliyon

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Comparing household greenhouse gas emissions across Canadian cities

Cited by 16 publications

References 2 publications

Untangling Urban Sprawl and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature on Physical Planning and Transportation Drivers

Untangling Urban Sprawl and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature on Physical Planning and Transportation Drivers

Costs and Procurement for Cross-Laminated Timber in Mid-Rise Buildings

The complex relationship between carbon literacy and pro-environmental actions among engineering students

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