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作者

Henrique Sala Benites;Paul Osmond;Angela M. Gabriella Rossi

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT,Vol.146,Issue1

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英文

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作者单位

Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Built Environment, Univ. of New South Wales, Red Centre West Wing, NSW 2052, Australia; formerly, Urban Engineering Program, Polytechnic School, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, 21941-909 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1616-8938. Email: [email protected];Associate Professor, Faculty of Built Environment, Univ. of New South Wales, Red Centre West Wing, NSW 2052, Australia. Email: [email protected];Professor, Urban Engineering Program, Polytechnic School, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos 149, Bloco D, Sala 101, 21941-909 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5625-5825. Email: [email protected]

摘要

The actual contribution of neighborhood sustainability assessment (NSA) tools to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in urban precincts is still unclear. This paper discusses the limitations and potentialities in the use of an NSA tool, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND), in the context of São Paulo, a developing country’s megalopolis. It describes a multistep study that involves understanding and analyzing how the tool responds to (1) the sectors of GHG emission of a community-scale carbon footprint tool, Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC); (2) the GHG emissions of the municipality; (3) the strategies of the Municipal Climate Change Policy; and (4) the climate change related strategies of a local LEED-ND-certified precinct. Results show that although LEED-ND addresses the GPC’s main sources of GHG emissions and the strategies of São Paulo’s climate change policy, there is still a need to either improve or better integrate NSA with other tools in a systemic and contextualized approach that does not apply them in isolation.