Albert Hans Baur

Abstract: As climate change mitigation becomes pervasive on all spatial scales, mitigation options related to urban spatial planning and behavioral change become increasingly important. Because transport energy consumption seems to scale inversely with population density, increased attention focuses on the role of urban form. This study specifically analyzes the importance of population density for the reduction of urban greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. For this, drivers of both carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transport (for 134 cities) and total urban greenhouse gas emissions (CO2eq emissions) of 62 cities across Europe are investigated. Results indicate that population density is not, per se, a strong determinant of greenhouse gas emissions in European cities. Crucially, the spatial scale of the analysis matters and national influences modulate CO2eq emissions in the analyzed urban areas. Results show that greenhouse gas emissions of European urbanites increase significantly with decreasing househo...

TL;DR: This article identified socioeconomic influences on urban greenhouse gas emissions, information about the role of spatial urban structures and land use and land cover patterns is sparse, while previous analyses have identified socioeconomic factors.

TL;DR: In analyzing 44 European cities, the authors investigate possible socioeconomic and spatial determinants of urban greenhouse gas emissions and present a multiple regression model, which can help cities develop adequate climate change mitigation strategies and promote respective policies on the EU or the regional level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined correlations between 16 landscape metrics and greenhouse gas emissions across 52 European cities, through systematic manipulation of spatial and thematic resolutions of the urban land use/cover (ULUC) dataset, and comparison between available standard ULUC datasets with different spatial resolutions.