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DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.102
	Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods
	Pulselli R.M.; Marchi M.; Neri E.; Marchettini N.; Bastianoni S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	9596526
起始页码	850
结束页码	868
卷号	208
英文摘要	Strategies for climate change mitigation in European cities have become more urgent and require actions to proactively involve administrators, citizens and other stakeholders and let them cooperate to accomplish widely approved plans for decarbonisation. Nevertheless, considering the short term of political mandates and the instability of social-economic-legal variables in our changing world, urban planning practices will require more effective and rapid decision support systems to easily access and process information. The paper presents an optimised carbon accounting methodology to assess greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in specific urban environments and inform urban policies and design. In particular, this procedure, substantially inspired by the IPCC standard methodology for GHG emissions inventory of Nations, constitutes the framework of a “mediate model” with a dual role: to both assess the Carbon Footprint of urban neighbourhoods and to estimate the effects, in terms of Carbon Footprint mitigation, of action plans addressed to carbon neutrality. For demonstration, the carbon accounting framework has been performed based on average European values. The procedure started by profiling the typical household as functional unit, whose carbon footprint has been estimated 6.93 t CO2-eq/yr, referring to energy use for housing and mobility, domestic waste treatment and water use. The impact of the average European neighbourhood has been obtained by scaling up to 10,000 households (23,000 inhabitants) as benchmark for future applications. An additional outcome concerns the innovative spatial visualisation of results in terms of equivalent forestland (e.g. the emission of one average European household corresponds to the quantity of CO2 yearly absorbed by 0.51 ha of forest), that allows for understanding intensity and size of impacts in order to consistently support awareness raising initiatives targeting citizens and stakeholders and communication-dissemination activities. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Carbon footprint offset; Decision support system; Energy saving; Renewable energy; Sustainable mobility; Waste management
scopus关键词	Artificial intelligence; Benchmarking; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Decarbonization; Decision support systems; Emission control; Energy conservation; Energy utilization; Forestry; Gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Urban planning; Waste management; Waste treatment; Water treatment; Carbon accounting; Carbon neutralities; Climate change mitigation; Future applications; Process information; Renewable energies; Sustainable mobility; Urban environments; Carbon footprint
来源期刊	Journal of Cleaner Production
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/176224
作者单位	Ecodynamics Group, Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pian dei Mantellini 44, Siena, 53100, Italy; INDACO2 srl, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Siena, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pulselli R.M.,Marchi M.,Neri E.,et al. Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods[J],2019,208.
APA	Pulselli R.M.,Marchi M.,Neri E.,Marchettini N.,&Bastianoni S..(2019).Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods.Journal of Cleaner Production,208.
MLA	Pulselli R.M.,et al."Carbon accounting framework for decarbonisation of European city neighbourhoods".Journal of Cleaner Production 208(2019).