Project Leader(s): Professor Margaret Bell, Dr Anil Namdeo
Sponsors: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Partners: Newcastle University, Loughborough University, Sheffield University, Exeter University, Leeds University, Leicester DeMontfort University
External Website: http://www.4mfootprint.org/
Start/end dates: 2008-2012
Contact: margaret.bell@ncl.ac.uk
The Carbon Footprint (CF) offers a framework to represent carbon sources and sinks. The relative magnitude of trade-offs of carbon management policies and practices can then be compared. Within the 4M project, through the calculation of the carbon footprint of the City of Leicester, UK, it has become possible to study: emissions of domestic and non-domestic buildings; emissions and pollution from vehicles and biological sequestration of carbon in urban soils.
Newcastle University has been involved with the footprinting of carbon emissions from transport, incorporating information extracted from extensive travel surveys across cohorts of individual residences, workplaces and schools across Leicester.
Book Chapter
Lomas KJ, Bell MC, Firth SK, Gaston KJ, Goodman P, Leake JR, Namdeo A, Rylatt M, Allinson D, Davies ZG, Edmondson JL, Galatioto F, Brake JA, Guo L, Fill G, Irvine KN, Taylor SC, Tiwary A (2010) The carbon footprint of UK Cities: 4M: measurement, modelling, mapping and measurement. ISOCARP Review 06, Int. Soc. of City and Regional Planners, p168 – 191, (2010), ISBN: 978-0-415-61715-4 (Routledge, Main Distributor); ISBN: 978-94-90354-07-7 (ISOCARP).
Conference Papers
Bell M.C, Galatioto F., Hill G. and Namdeo A. (2009) Modelling environmental impacts of traffic using a new generation of pervasive sensors. 16th ITS World Congress 2009, Stockholm, 21-25 September 2009.