Measuring the impacts of suburbanization with ecological footprint calculations

Kovács, Zoltán; Harangozó, Gábor; Szigeti, Cecília; Koppány, Krisztián; Kondor, A.; Szabó, Balázs

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2020.102715

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“…As mentioned before, people in Wedding have a lower average income than in Berlin and Germany. Kovács et al [59] also found that lower consumption lowers the environmental footprint. Another reason why the consumption-based results in the study are lower than those calculated by Pichler et al [42] and Ivanova et al [57] is the economic allocation of IO calculations.…”

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Territorial-Based vs. Consumption-Based Carbon Footprint of an Urban District—A Case Study of Berlin-Wedding

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Cities account for 70% of carbon emissions and are therefore a vital driver for climate change. Thus, a city’s main contributing sectors need to be identified. Territorial-based footprints focus on the final energy consumption, which is derived from the stationary and transport sectors. The consumption-based approach is based on consumption data, which are converted into carbon emissions using an input–output model. If the consumption-based approach is applied to an urban district not only emissions in the investigated area are considered, but also those that occur along the supply chain of consumed products in the urban district. The goal of this study was to apply and evaluate two different approaches to calculate an urban district’s carbon footprint to support climate protection management at the local government level. To achieve this goal, these two different approaches were applied to calculate the carbon emissions of the urban district Wedding in Berlin and were compared regarding criteria such as data availability and relevance. The footprints resulted in 400,947 t CO2–eq. for the territorial approach and in 401,371 t CO2–eq. per year for the consumption-based approach, which resulted in 4.61 t CO2–eq and 4.62 t CO2–eq per capita and year, respectively. Methodologically, the two approaches differ significantly, but the total results showed a difference of only 0.1%. Thus, this study cannot verify that the consumption-based approach mostly leads to higher emissions per capita in the Global North. This could be due to lower purchasing power and a higher share of multiple-person households in the relatively poor urban district of Wedding, Berlin. The territorial approach is more suitable to derive measures for local climate action, whereas the consumption-based approach highlights the responsibility of consumers for GHG emissions along the supply chain and the importance of the food sector.

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“…Comparing with other references it could be confirmed that for an annual production of desalinated water in the Canary Islands of approximately 660,000 m 3 /day and considering an average energy consumption of 3.04 kWh/m 3 , introducing equipment to recover energy from brine, we have a carbon footprint of 1203.84 tCO 2 /day, which means that there are 439,402 tCO 2 per year and approximately a value of 219,701 Gha/year [ 8 , 13 ].…”

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“…Considering the surface area of the Canary Islands being 749,300 ha, and population of 2,207,225 habitants, this ecological footprint per person should be a value of 0.1 Gha/person/year and the emissions per inhabitant and year are 0.2 tCO 2 /person/year as [ 8 , 13 ].…”

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“…The cost of desalination is quite high when compared to freshwater exploitation where energy is only consumed when pumping water from where the consumer is extracted. In the Canary Islands there is a predominance of the use of reverse osmosis, this process being 77% of the total desalinated water [ 13 ].…”

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“…It is important to study the challenges of calculating the ecological footprint of Canary Islands, because they are areas smaller than the continental territory. Ecological footprint analysis provides a useful tool for measuring the environmental load of urban restructuring [ 13 ].…”

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The water situation in the Canary Islands has been a historical problem that has been sought to be solved in various ways. After years of work, efforts have focused on desalination of seawater to provide safe water mainly to citizens, agriculture, and tourism. Due to the high demand in the Islands, the Canary Islands was a pioneering place in the world in desalination issues, allowing the improvement of the techniques and materials used. There are a wide variety of technologies for desalination water, but nowadays the most used is reverse osmosis. Desalination has a negative part, the energy costs of producing desalinated water are high. To this we add the peculiarities of the electricity generation system in the Canary Islands, which generates more emissions per unit of energy produced compared to the peninsular generation system. In this study we have selected a desalination plant located on the island of Tenerife, specifically in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, and once its technical characteristics have been known, the ecological footprint has been calculated. To do this we have had to perform some calculations such as the capacity to fix carbon dioxide per hectare in the Canary Islands, as well as the total calculation of the emissions produced in the generation of energy to feed the desalination plant.

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Measuring the impacts of suburbanization with ecological footprint calculations

Cited by 22 publications

References 67 publications

Territorial-Based vs. Consumption-Based Carbon Footprint of an Urban District—A Case Study of Berlin-Wedding

Territorial-Based vs. Consumption-Based Carbon Footprint of an Urban District—A Case Study of Berlin-Wedding

Study of the Ecological Footprint and Carbon Footprint in a Reverse Osmosis Sea Water Desalination Plant

Providing Decent, Affordable, and Sustainable Housing: Analysing Environmental Impacts of Family Houses Built with Conventional and Unconventional Building Materials

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