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.

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