A systems approach to carbon cycling and emissions modeling at an urban neighborhood scale

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-58

  Kellett, Ronald ^a   Christen, Andreas ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   van der Laan, Michael ^a   Crawford, Ben ^a   Tooke, Thoreau Rory ^a   Olchovski, Inna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Carbon storage; Remote sensing; Urban metabolism; Urban planning for climate change

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; EMISSION CONTROL; METABOLISM; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON STORAGE; EMISSION REDUCTION; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; PLANNING STRATEGIES; URBAN METABOLISMS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; METABOLISM; NEIGHBORHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84871760886     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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