New Energy Efficient Housing Has Reduced Carbon Footprints in Outer but Not in Inner Urban Areas

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 9574-9583

  Ottelin, Juudit ^a   Heinonen, Jukka ^b   Junnila, Seppo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING;

ENERGY EFFICIENT; EXISTING HOUSING STOCKS; INCOME LEVELS; MITIGATION MEASURES; NEW ENERGIES; PERI-URBAN AREAS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

CARBON;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INCOME; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FINLAND; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRENDS;

FINLAND;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; CITY PLANNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FINLAND; HOUSING; SUBURBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84939640570     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02140     Document Type: Article

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