Energy analysis of the built environment—A review and outlook

JE Anderson, G Wulfhorst, W Lang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The built environment is responsible for significant use of final energy (62%) and is a major
source of greenhouse gas emissions (55%). Achieving environmental goals, including …

Dynamics of transit oriented development, role of greenhouse gases and urban environment: a study for management and policy

L Ali, A Nawaz, S Iqbal, M Aamir Basheer, J Hameed… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The emission and mitigation of greenhouse gases transforms the status of urban
environments. However, a policy accounting for all the aspects associated with transport is …

Multi-criteria decision analysis framework for sustainable manufacturing in automotive industry

S Stoycheva, D Marchese, C Paul, S Padoan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Increase in societal demand for sustainability has resulted in attention to sustainable
manufacturing. Although an attractive goal to most, executives face difficulties in …

The growth of urban building stock: Unintended lock‐in and embedded environmental effects

JL Reyna, MV Chester - Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Building stocks constitute enduring components of urban infrastructure systems, but little
research exists on their residence time or changing environmental impacts. Using Los …

[HTML][HTML] Greenhouse gas emission analysis and measurement for urban rail transit: a review of research progress and prospects

Z Yuan, X Yuan, Y Yang, J Chen, Y Nie… - Digital Transportation …, 2023 - maxapress.com
Rail transit plays a key role in mitigating transportation system carbon emissions. Accurate
measurement of urban rail transit carbon emission can help quantify the contribution of …

Greenhouse gas emission mitigation pathways for urban passenger land transport under ambitious climate targets

A Milovanoff, L Minet, L Cheah, ID Posen… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Urban passenger land transport is an important source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
globally, but it is challenging to mitigate these emissions as this sector interacts with many …

Environmental sustainable decision making–The need and obstacles for integration of LCA into decision analysis

Y Dong, S Miraglia, S Manzo, S Georgiadis… - … Science & Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Decision analysis is often used to help decision makers choose among alternatives, based
on the expected utility associated to each alternative as function of its consequences and …

Taxonomy of uncertainty in environmental life cycle assessment of infrastructure projects

S Saxe, G Guven, L Pereira, A Arrigoni… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly being used to evaluate
infrastructure products and to inform their funding, design and construction. As such …

A life cycle assessment method to support cities in their climate change mitigation strategies

E Dorr, C François, A Poulhès, A Wurtz - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
National climate change mitigation objectives must be translated to the city level and to
specific sectors, with locally-relevant policy measures. However, assessing the …

Embodied emissions in rail infrastructure: a critical literature review

O Olugbenga, N Kalyviotis, S Saxe - Environmental Research …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper investigates the state of knowledge in quantifying the embodied greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions in rail infrastructure and develops a sketch model for estimating the GHG …