title: Development of a framework for quantifying the environmental impacts of urban development and construction practices.
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.
authors: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA.
authors: Ke
authors: K
authors: Li
authors: Peng
authors: P
authors: Zhang
authors: John C
authors: JC
authors: Crittenden
authors: Subhrajit
authors: S
authors: Guhathakurta
authors: Yongsheng
authors: Y
authors: Chen
authors: Harindra
authors: H
authors: Fernando
authors: Anil
authors: A
authors: Sawhney
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: McCartney
authors: Nancy
authors: N
authors: Grimm
authors: Ramzy
authors: R
authors: Kahhat
authors: Himanshu
authors: H
authors: Joshi
authors: Goran
authors: G
authors: Konjevod
authors: Yu-Jin
authors: YJ
authors: Choi
authors: Ernesto
authors: E
authors: Fonseca
authors: Braden
authors: B
authors: Allenby
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Gerrity
authors: Paul M
authors: PM
authors: Torrens
mesh_terms: D001130:Arizona; D004777:Environment; D010126:Ozone / Q000737:chemistry; D014507:Urbanization
chemical_list: D010126:Ozone