Pathways to Urban Sustainability The Atlanta Metropolitan Region: Summary of a Workshop (2011) / Chapter Skim
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4 INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY
4 INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY
Pages 23-26
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REDUCING THE REGION'S CARBON FOOTPRINT Marilyn Brown, professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech, examined sustainability through the lens of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. She began with a forecast of the growth of CO2 emissions in the United States and noted that a national goal ought to be not only to stop cumulative growth in emissions, but to make these growth rates negative.
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Dr. Brown noted that obtaining energy data at a county or zip code level is difficult.
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Graeme Lockaby, director, Center for Forest Sustainability, Auburn University, pointed out that macroeconomic analyses are not suited to local ecological scales, and so it is easy to miss declines in ecosystem services resulting from urban expansion. He cited two specific examples from his studies in western Georgia -- first, that regional water availability tends to decrease as urbanization (i.e., land conversion)
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Therefore, the CDC is becoming more involved in building capacity to support Health Impact Assessments for land-use and transportation projects. Jeremy Hess, assistant professor, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, posed a question to the group about which health indicators could be used as a measure of urban sustainability.
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