The Linkage of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Land Use Change
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Su, Chih-Yi
Abstract
Since the end of 19th century industrial revolution, people have been intensively using fossil fuels to develop societies and support economic activity. The anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gas cause climate change and global warming. With the increased urbanization of human society, all economic activities continued to develop more lands to expand the scope of their activities. The land‐based carbon sink has been considered as an important element in the inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sinks. However, few studies have reported on the linkage of the urban land use change and GHG emissions. Therefore, the aim of this research attempts to explore how drivers of land-use change and the emissions of GHG are related. The case study is at the Xin-zhuang district , New Taipei City. This research attempts to reclassify land-use level through cluster analysis and analyze the driving force of land use change and each sector of GHG emissions by using binomial logistic model. The result of highly relationship between land use change and GHG emissions is residential sector and traffic sector. Mitigation measures for reduction of GHG emissions were also provided by model simulation. Under this scenario, residential sector and traffic sector will reduce 2007’s total GHG emissions by 5.46% or 0.791 t-CO2e/ person-yr in 10-year period.
Subjects
GHG
land use change
Spearman rank order correlation
binomial logistic model
GHG mitigation
Type
thesis
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