Author, as appears in the article.: Haberl, Helmut; Loew, Markus; Perez-Laborda, Alejandro; Matej, Sarah; Plank, Barbara; Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Creutzig, Felix; Erb, Karl-Heinz; Duro, Juan Antonio
Department: Economia
URV's Author/s: Duro Moreno, Juan Antonio / Perez Laborda, Alejandro
Abstract: Built structures, i.e. the patterns of settlements and transport infrastructures, are known to influence per-capita energy demand and CO2 emissions at the urban level. At the national level, the role of built structures is seldom considered due to poor data availability. Instead, other potential determinants of energy demand and CO2 emissions, primarily GDP, are more frequently assessed. We present a set of national-level indicators to characterize patterns of built structures. We quantify these indicators for 113 countries and statistically analyze the results along with final energy use and territorial CO2 emissions, as well as factors commonly included in national-level analyses of determinants of energy use and emissions. We find that these indicators are about equally important for predicting energy demand and CO2 emissions as GDP and other conventional factors. The area of built-up land per capita is the most important predictor, second only to the effect of GDP.© 2023. The Author(s).
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licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: alejandro.perez@urv.cat juanantonio.duro@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-4247-598X 0000-0002-1106-5251
Record's date: 2024-12-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Nature Communications. 14 (1): 3898-3898
APA: Haberl, Helmut; Loew, Markus; Perez-Laborda, Alejandro; Matej, Sarah; Plank, Barbara; Wiedenhofer, Dominik; Creutzig, Felix; Erb, Karl-Heinz; Duro, Ju (2023). Built structures influence patterns of energy demand and CO2 emissions across countries. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3898-3898. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39728-3
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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