Urban energy, carbon management (low carbon cities) and co-benefits for human health

Milner, James; Davies, Martin; Wilkinson, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.09.011

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“…As the major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, cities have been under tremendous pressure for energy conservation and emission reduction for decades [6][7][8], and have a limited capacity to reduce GHG due to consistently fast urbanization [9]. Improving dioxide carbon sequestration and storage by urban ecosystem is another effective way that will have benefits for social and economic aspects [10,11].…”

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“…Until recent years, there has been growing evidence that activities to mitigate climate variation can have beneficial impacts on public health, with the need to avoid adverse environmental, social and economic consequences [1][2][3][4][5][6]. As the major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission, cities have been under tremendous pressure for energy conservation and emission reduction for decades [6][7][8], and have a limited capacity to reduce GHG due to consistently fast urbanization [9].…”

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Assessment Impacts of Weather and Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Change on Urban Vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP): A Case Study in Guangzhou, China

Zhao

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Remote Sensing

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Net primary productivity (NPP) can indicate vegetation ecosystem services ability and reflect variation response to climate change and human activities. This study applied MODIS-1 km NPP products to investigate the NPP variation from 2001 to 2006, a fast urban expansion and adjustment period in Guangzhou, China, and quantify the impacts of weather and land use/land cover (LULC) changes, respectively. The results showed that the NPP mean value increased at a rate of 11.6 g·C·m g·C. The spatiotemporal of NPP varied obviously in the central area, suburb and exurb of Guangzhou driven by three patterns of weather and LULC changes. By the interactive effects and the weather variation dominated effects, NPP of most areas changed slightly with dynamic index less than 5% of NPP mean value in the central area and the suburb. The LULC change dominated effects caused obvious NPP reduction, by more than 15% of the NPP mean value, which occurred in some areas of the suburb and extended to the exurb with the outward urban sprawl. Importantly, conversion from wood grassland, shrublands and even forests to croplands occupied by urban landscapes proved to be a main process in the conversion from high-NPP coverage to low-NPP coverage, thereby leading to the rapid degradation of urban carbon stock capacity in urban fringe areas. It is helpful for government to monitor urban ecological health and safety and make relevant policies.

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Assessment Impacts of Weather and Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Change on Urban Vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP): A Case Study in Guangzhou, China

Zhao

et al. 2013

Remote Sensing

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“…The reviewed articles range from overviews of previous articles [40,41,58,[60][61][62][63] and methodological issues [36,42,46,47,52,59,63,65] to scenario projections of potential health benefits for particular urban areas -Santiago de Chile (Chile) [64] and London (UK) and Delhi (India) [45]. Here, one could notice that air quality related co-benefits are listed both within environmental and health co-benefits.…”

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Reduction of CO 2 emission and non-environmental co-benefits of bicycle infrastructure provision: the case of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Mrkajić

Vukelić

Mihajlov

2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…As the United Nations Human Settlements Programme claimed, there is no globally accepted definition of city, and there are no globally accepted standards for recording emissions from sub-national areas [17,18]. It is easily understandable that there is no globally accepted definition of a low-carbon city.…”

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Evaluation of a Low-Carbon City: Method and Application

Rong-hua

Lü

et al. 2013

Entropy

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Many cities around the World have established the development objective of becoming a low-carbon city. Evaluation of such a city is important for its progress. A new evaluation framework of urban low-carbon development level is proposed in this paper, which integrates synthetic evaluation based on a bottom-up idea and analytical diagnosis based on a top-down idea. Further, set pair analysis is combined for synthetic evaluation and analytical diagnosis by comparing urban low-carbon development levels of different cities, through which the comprehensive state of urban low-carbon development level can be obtained and limiting factors identified. Based on the proposed framework and set pair analysis, low-carbon development levels of 12 Chinese cities are compared. Some suggestions are provided, based on results of overall situations of urban low-carbon development level and concrete performances of various factors and specific indicators. We conclude that both synthetic evaluation and analytical diagnosis are important for evaluation of urban low-carbon development level. The proposed framework and method can be widely applied in the evaluation of different cities over a long-term period.

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Urban energy, carbon management (low carbon cities) and co-benefits for human health

Cited by 51 publications

References 60 publications

Assessment Impacts of Weather and Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Change on Urban Vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP): A Case Study in Guangzhou, China

Assessment Impacts of Weather and Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) Change on Urban Vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP): A Case Study in Guangzhou, China

Reduction of CO 2 emission and non-environmental co-benefits of bicycle infrastructure provision: the case of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Evaluation of a Low-Carbon City: Method and Application

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