Development of a framework for quantifying the environmental impacts of urban development and construction practices
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-15-2007
Publication Title
Environonmental Science and Technology
Volume
41
Issue
14
First page number:
5130
Last page number:
5136
Abstract
To encourage sustainable development, engineers and scientists need to understand the interactions among social decision-making, development and redevelopment, land, energy and material use, and their environmental impacts. In this study, a framework that connects these interactions was proposed to guide more sustainable urban planning and construction practices. Focusing on the rapidly urbanizing setting of Phoenix, Arizona, complexity models and deterministic models were assembled as a metamodel, which is called Sustainable Futures 2100 and were used to predict land use and development, to quantify construction material demands, to analyze the life cycle environmental impacts, and to simulate future ground-level ozone formation.
Keywords
Arizona – Phoenix; City planning; Energy policy; Environmental policy; Sustainable urban development
Disciplines
Environmental Engineering | Environmental Health and Protection | Environmental Sciences | Natural Resource Economics | Natural Resources Management and Policy | Sustainability | Urban, Community and Regional Planning | Urban Studies and Planning
Language
English
Permissions
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Publisher Citation
Li, Ke & Zhang, Peng & Crittenden, John C & Guhathakurta, Subhrajit & Chen, Yongsheng & Fernando, Harindra & Sawhney, Anil & McCartney, Peter & Grimm, Nancy & Kahhat, Ramzy & Joshi, Himanshu & Konjevod, Goran & Choi, Yu-Jin & Fonseca, Ernesto & Allenby, Braden & Gerrity, Daniel & Torrens, Paul M. Development of a framework for quantifying the environmental impacts of urban development and construction practices. Environmental science & technology. 2007. n.p.
Repository Citation
Li, K.,
Zhang, P.,
Crittenden, J. C.,
Guhathakurta, S.,
Chen, Y.,
Fernando, H.,
Sawhney, A.,
McCartney, P.,
Grimm, N.,
Kahhat, R.,
Joshi, H.,
Konjevod, G.,
Choi, Y.,
Fonseca, E.,
Allenby, B.,
Gerrity, D.,
Torrens, P. M.
(2007).
Development of a framework for quantifying the environmental impacts of urban development and construction practices.
Environonmental Science and Technology, 41(14),
5130-5136.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es062481d