TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a framework for quantifying the environmental impacts of urban development and construction practices
AU - Li, K. E.
AU - Zhang, Peng
AU - Crittenden, John C.
AU - Guhathakurta, Subhrajit
AU - Chen, Yongsheng
AU - Fernando, Harindra
AU - Sawhney, Anil
AU - Mccartney, Peter
AU - Grimm, Nancy
AU - Kahhat, Ramzy
AU - Joshi, Himanshu
AU - Konjevod, Goran
AU - Choi, Yu Jin
AU - Fonseca, Ernesto
AU - Allenby, Braden
AU - Gerrity, Daniel
AU - Torrens, Paul M.
PY - 2007/7/15
Y1 - 2007/7/15
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34547217954&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/es062481d
DO - 10.1021/es062481d
M3 - Article
C2 - 17711234
AN - SCOPUS:34547217954
SN - 0013-936X
VL - 41
SP - 5130
EP - 5136
JO - Environmental Science and Technology
JF - Environmental Science and Technology
IS - 14
ER -