Planning low carbon communities: Why is a self-sustaining energy management system indispensable?

Li, Li Wen; Yu, Yue Hwa

doi:10.1080/15567249.2011.647243

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“…Moreover, proximity, how close jobs, amenities, services, and public spaces are to where people live as generally calculated based on the travel time and distance to their homes, strengthens the self-contained local economy feature of the eco-city that obtains resources locally. In this respect, proximity allows the city to be self-sustaining by having everything that people need within the community, including stores, employers, service providers, energy suppliers, waste handlers, and so on [116].…”

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Smart Eco-City Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability: The Cases of Royal Seaport, Stockholm, and Western Harbor, Malmö, Sweden

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Krogstie

2020

Urban Science

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Sustainable urbanism is seen today as one of the keys towards unlocking the quest for a sustainable society. As a central paradigm of sustainable urbanism, the eco-city is promoted by global and local policies as one of the preferred responses to the challenges of sustainable development. It is argued that eco-city strategies are expected to deliver positive outcomes in terms of providing healthy and livable human environments in conjunction with minimal demand on resources and thus minimal environmental impacts. As such, it is pertinent to examine how the eco-city model and especially its three sustainability dimensions is practiced and justified in urban planning and development at the local level. This is motivated by the increased interest in developing sustainable urban districts. In this light, this study seeks to answer the following two questions: What are the key strategies of the eco-city district model, and in what ways do they mutually complement one another in terms of producing the expected tripartite value of sustainability? To what extent does the eco-city district model support and contribute to the environmental, economic, and social goals of sustainability? To illuminate the phenomenon of the eco-city district accordingly, a descriptive case study is adopted as a qualitative research methodology, where the empirical basis is mainly formed by urban planning and development documents in two eco-city districts-Royal Seaport, Stockholm, and Western Harbor, Malmö, Sweden-in combination with qualitative interview data, secondary data, and scientific literature. This study shows that the eco-city district models of SRS and Western Harbor involve mainly design and technology, supported with behavioral change, as key strategies and solutions for achieving urban sustainability. Design encompasses greening, passive solar houses, sustainable transportation, mixed land use, and diversity. And technology comprises green technologies, energy efficiency technologies, and waste management systems. Design contributes to the three goals of sustainability, and technology contributes mostly to the environmental and economic goals of sustainability. Behavioral change is associated with sustainable travel, waste separation, and energy consumption. Moreover, at the core of the eco-city district model is the clear synergy between the underlying strategies in terms of their cooperation to produce combined effects greater than the sum of their separate effects with respect to the benefits of sustainability. Further, this study demonstrates that while the environmental, economic, and social goals of sustainability are represented in eco-city district strategies on a discursive level, institutionalized planning practices show that the environmental goals remain at the core of planning, while the economic and social goals still play second fiddle. Nevertheless, new measures have recently been implemented in Western Harbor that are expected to strengthen their influence over urban development practices, whereas the Royal Sea...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Eco-City Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability: The Cases of Royal Seaport, Stockholm, and Western Harbor, Malmö, Sweden

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Krogstie

2020

Urban Science

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“…Tanto as actitudes cara ás renovables como a preocupación por cuestións relacionadas coa enerxía poderían, con todo, explicarse con base nas motivacións ambientais ou económicas. Dado que as preocupacións ambientais demostraron ter unha influencia significativa sobre a intención/decisión de participar/investir (Bauwens, 2016;Boon e Dieperink, 2014;Braito et al, 2017; Dóci e Vasileiadou, 2015; Kalkbrenner e Roosen, 2016) e tamén as motivacións económicas (Bauwens, 2016;Braito et al, 2017;Dóci e Vasileiadou, 2015;Fleiß et al, 2017;Li e Yu, 2016), abordamos a análise de ambos os tipos de motivacións tanto en relación coas actitudes cara ás ER como en función das preocupacións sobre cuestións enerxéticas.…”

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Autonomía energética local y desarrollo rural sostenible. Análisis de la pre-disposición a participar en comunidades energéticas renovables

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Viña

2020

RGE

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Las comunidades energéticas renovables (CER) se han postulado en la literatura académica como una potencial fuente de oportunidades para el desarrollo rural sostenible. Las nuevas líneas estratégicas del Gobierno de la nación apuntan a que podrían empezar a incentivarse de un modo más contundente, haciendo necesario el análisis de los condicionantes de la predisposición a participar y/o invertir en este tipo de iniciativas. Con base en la información recogida a través de una encuesta en un pequeño pueblo de Galicia, analizamos mediante técnicas cuantitativas (análisis de componentes principales y de regresión múltiple) las características sociodemográficas y sociopsicológicas que determinan la predisposición a participar y/o invertir en una CER rural. Los resultados revelan que el género, el nivel de renta y un factor de capital social relacionado con la confianza y la cooperación resultan significativos. Estos resultados nos permiten formular conclusiones y recomendaciones para investigadores, promotores y legisladores.

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“…Innovation is an overturning of traditional consumer behavior, policy decisions, technology development, energy and land use, and spatial planning models [6]. Hence, seeking local acceptance and support to achieve energy efficiency (EE) and sustainability goals is necessary and important to empower community users to participate in sustainable development management during the initial operational mechanisms and planning process [7], in addition to enhancing innovative community energy planning and design approaches.…”

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Planning Principles for Integrating Community Empowerment into Zero-Net Carbon Transformation

Lange

2022

Smart Cities

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The adoption of the UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals is a landmark in international sustainability politics. For example, Europe has set ambitious targets to achieve 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030. However, numerous case studies from different countries have found that accelerating the transition to net-zero carbon emissions is easily hampered by the lack of a coherent systems framework, and that implementation gaps remain at the community level. These barriers are often due to a lack of an adequate end-user (i.e., household) input and early planning participation. This work therefore aims to improve on conventional planning methods that do not reflect innovative technologies with uncertainty and may not be applicable due to the lack of community empowerment, which is a dynamic learning and intervention opportunity for end-users at different planning stages (i.e., outreach, survey, planning, implementation, management, and maintenance). Using the lessons learned from participatory action research, whereby the author was involved as a project director throughout the planning and design process, we identified a six-step cycle principle. The steps are (1) collective action commitments, (2) local values and resource identification, (3) carbon footprint inventory, (4) optimized integration of environment, economy, and energy action plans, (5) Flexible strategic energy system plans, and (6) digital performance monitoring. Ultimately, the outcomes provide application support for policymakers and planners and stimulate community engagement to contribute to the achievement of zero net carbon emissions.

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Planning low carbon communities: Why is a self-sustaining energy management system indispensable?

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Smart Eco-City Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability: The Cases of Royal Seaport, Stockholm, and Western Harbor, Malmö, Sweden

Smart Eco-City Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability: The Cases of Royal Seaport, Stockholm, and Western Harbor, Malmö, Sweden

Autonomía energética local y desarrollo rural sostenible. Análisis de la pre-disposición a participar en comunidades energéticas renovables

Planning Principles for Integrating Community Empowerment into Zero-Net Carbon Transformation

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