Structuring the World Down to Cities and Sustainable Air Sharing

This paper describes how cities live and need air to breathe. The annual air consumption of human activities in the Sustainable Technological World (STW) is described. This STW budget is shared by people and densely populated areas have a larger air budget than less dense ones. The structure of human societies in sub-societies is described with a logarithmic distribution. This novel 5 parameter top down model allows the description of the World in countries, countries in provinces and provinces in cities enabling one to study scale effects (entities with the same sub entity structure). It is shown that the Dutch province Zuid-Holland with two large cities (Rotterdam and The Hague) has the same structure as the World with two large countries (China and India). The cities and countries – embedded in their environment (Zuid-Holland, World) – are compared with respect to the categories of geography, people, government and transportation. It is concluded that indeed scaling occurs between Rotterdam and China and between The Hague and India. The differences in carbon dioxide emissions are reviewed with respect to air consumption allowed by the STW.

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• Authors:
  • Kleizen, H H
• Conference:
  • 4th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (The Sustainable City)
  • Location: Tallinn , Estonia
  • Date: 2006-7-17 to 2006-7-19
• Publication Date: 2006-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 303-311
• Monograph Title: Sustainable City IV. Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air; Air quality; Air quality management; Carbon dioxide; Cities; Countries; Emission control systems; Policy; Sustainable development; Technological innovations
• Geographic Terms: China; Rotterdam (Netherlands)
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01042585
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1845640403
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 1 2007 8:39AM