Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity: a geographically weighted regression approach

Mehrotra, Surabhi; Bardhan, Ronita; Ramamritham, Krithivasan

doi:10.1080/23792949.2019.1609368

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“…This finding adds a crucial planning-based policy variable to energy stress management in warming cities of Global South where most of the building stock is yet to be built. It is also coherent with the recommendations of Mehrotra, Bardhan, and Ramamritham (2019) .…”

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confidence: 81%

REST framework: A modelling approach towards cooling energy stress mitigation plans for future cities in warming Global South

Bardhan

Debnath

Gama

et al. 2020

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Highlights Higher cooling energy stress due to future urbanisation in Global South. Urban energy stress modelling using an integrated geo-spatial energy network. Residential decentralised energy system as grid energy stress management strategy. Distributive energy justice through urban planning and peer-to-peer energy sharing.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 81%

REST framework: A modelling approach towards cooling energy stress mitigation plans for future cities in warming Global South

Bardhan

Debnath

Gama

et al. 2020

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…1 is developed based on the classification by Swanwick et al (2003a , 2003b ) to illustrate the definition of green space and open space. The presence of urban green spaces has a significant positive influence on climate mitigation, public health, biodiversity conservation and general well-being, which has been widely recognised in the existing literature ( Bardhan et al, 2015 ; Mehrotra et al, 2019 ; Sathyakumar et al, 2020 ). Richardson et al (2010) identify three key mechanisms explaining the influence of urban green spaces on health, which are increasing physical activity level, facilitating social contacts, and promoting attention fatigue and stress recovery.…”

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“…At the same time, how the spatial distribution of the built environment factors relating to the epidemic transmission remains a gap in research, while the spatial pattern could be significant in the control of spreading. The spatial regression model incorporates the spatial correlation structure into the linear regression model ( Anselin, 2009 ; Mehrotra et al, 2019 ). In this study, the exploratory statistical tools of ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and spatial lag model were applied to establish a correlation between the COVID-19 case and the PGS accessibility.…”

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Spatial distributive effects of public green space and COVID-19 infection in London

Pan

Bardhan

Jin

2021

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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While public green spaces (PGS) are opined to be central in the pandemic recovery, higher accessibility to PGS also mean a higher risk of infection spread from the raised possibility of people encountering each other. This study explores the distributive effects of accessibility of PGS on the COVID-19 cases distribution using a geo-spatially varying network-based risk model at the borough level in London. The coupled effect of social deprivation with accessibility of the PGS was used as an adjustment factor to identify vulnerability. Results indicate that highly connected green spaces with high choice measure were associated with high risk of infection transmission. Socially deprived areas demonstrated higher possibility of infection spread even with moderate connectivity of the PGS. The study demonstrated that only applying a uniform social distancing measure without characterising the infrastructure and social conditions may lead to higher infection transmission.

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“…UGS is the means to alleviate fatigue and stress by providing a sense of peacefulness, comfort, and tranquility, leading to a healthy state of mind (Sugiyama et al, 2018). UGS has a compelling positive impact on public health, individual wellbeing, climatic mitigation, and the conservation of biodiversity, as revealed in previous studies (Sathyakumar et al, 2020, Mehrotra et al, 2020. The approach and reaching out to green spaces are vital factors when assessing the spatial distribution of UGS on public health.…”

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Role of Algae in Built Environment and Green Cities: A Holistic approach towards Sustainability

Ahmad

Abdullah²,

Al-Dailami³

et al. 2022

Int J. of BES

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The changing lifestyle, urbanization, and depletion of non-renewable resources to match the ever-increasing energy demand are causing a pessimistic impact on the environment. The cities are responsible for 75% of carbon emissions and about 60-80% of the energy consumption globally, causing a precarious situation because they only constitute 3% of the earth’s land. Urbanization makes the cities vulnerable due to the changing climatic conditions and possibilities of natural deserts disasters, thereby compelling the researchers to go for planning building green and resilient cities. Green cities are imperative in resisting the environmental crisis and assure a sustainable future for the upcoming generations. The pivotal role for the green cities is played by the renewable sources of energy. Therefore, solar and wind energy systems were employed, but eventually these renewable energy systems are associated with cost and pollution issues. This led to the paradigm-shifting towards algae as a third-generation feedstock and it is expected to become a potential source of green energy and environment due to the following advantages: (i) sequestration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs), (ii) they can be easily and rapidly cultured and bioengineered, (iii) they can utilize the wastewater as a source of nutrients for its cultivation, (iv) their growth does not depend upon the geography and climate, and (v) algal biomass can be processed into biofuels (biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas etc) and other useful bioproducts (biofertilizer & biochar). This review paper incorporates the role of microalgal bioreactive façades (algae powered buildings) in the simultaneous mitigation of environment and energy production, contributing to green cities. Since the importance of Urban Green Space (UGS) is imperative for green cities, its functions and role during the critical period of the pandemic are also explained together with the efficient and viable biofoundry approach of converting algal blooms in urban water bodies to energy and useful products.

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Urban form as policy variable for climate-sensitive area planning under heterogeneity: a geographically weighted regression approach

Cited by 14 publications

References 54 publications

REST framework: A modelling approach towards cooling energy stress mitigation plans for future cities in warming Global South

REST framework: A modelling approach towards cooling energy stress mitigation plans for future cities in warming Global South

Spatial distributive effects of public green space and COVID-19 infection in London

Role of Algae in Built Environment and Green Cities: A Holistic approach towards Sustainability

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