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Measuring the impacts of suburbanization with ecological footprint calculations
Abstract In this paper we present a complex Ecological Footprint (EF) analysis of one of the largest metropolitan regions in post-socialist East Central Europe, the Budapest Metropolitan Region. Our overall goal is to use both top-down and bottom-up approaches and measure the changes of footprint at a metropolitan scale between 2003 and 2013. Our specific objective is to explore how the spatial rearrangements of wealth, density and consumption influence the spatiotemporal changes of EF. The top-down (compound) calculations indicate growing footprint values both in Hungary and in the Budapest Metropolitan Region in the investigated period. However, household-level hybrid (component-based) calculations revealed decreasing footprint values for Hungary both in absolute and relative terms, and a growth for the metropolitan region. This finding suggests growing income disparities within the country. The indirect (consumption embedded) components of EF findings show that in the core city footprint values are higher due to higher disposable income. However, there is a gradual catching up in the suburban zone as younger and more affluent households arrive. On the other hand, direct per capita footprint values decreased in Budapest and grew in the suburbs between 2003 and 2013, mainly due to a higher heating footprint.
Highlights Ecological footprint analysis provides a useful tool for measuring the environmental load of urban restructuring Consumption based EF data confirm an increasing gap between the Budapest urban region and the rest of Hungary EF values of household consumption grew in Budapest and its agglomeration at similar rates while national values decreased The growth of EF in Budapest is the result of growing consumption, in the agglomeration the growing footprint of heating Per capita EF values are similar for Budapest and its agglomeration, however, their compositions differ significantly
Measuring the impacts of suburbanization with ecological footprint calculations
Abstract In this paper we present a complex Ecological Footprint (EF) analysis of one of the largest metropolitan regions in post-socialist East Central Europe, the Budapest Metropolitan Region. Our overall goal is to use both top-down and bottom-up approaches and measure the changes of footprint at a metropolitan scale between 2003 and 2013. Our specific objective is to explore how the spatial rearrangements of wealth, density and consumption influence the spatiotemporal changes of EF. The top-down (compound) calculations indicate growing footprint values both in Hungary and in the Budapest Metropolitan Region in the investigated period. However, household-level hybrid (component-based) calculations revealed decreasing footprint values for Hungary both in absolute and relative terms, and a growth for the metropolitan region. This finding suggests growing income disparities within the country. The indirect (consumption embedded) components of EF findings show that in the core city footprint values are higher due to higher disposable income. However, there is a gradual catching up in the suburban zone as younger and more affluent households arrive. On the other hand, direct per capita footprint values decreased in Budapest and grew in the suburbs between 2003 and 2013, mainly due to a higher heating footprint.
Highlights Ecological footprint analysis provides a useful tool for measuring the environmental load of urban restructuring Consumption based EF data confirm an increasing gap between the Budapest urban region and the rest of Hungary EF values of household consumption grew in Budapest and its agglomeration at similar rates while national values decreased The growth of EF in Budapest is the result of growing consumption, in the agglomeration the growing footprint of heating Per capita EF values are similar for Budapest and its agglomeration, however, their compositions differ significantly
Measuring the impacts of suburbanization with ecological footprint calculations
Kovács, Zoltán (Autor:in) / Harangozó, Gábor (Autor:in) / Szigeti, Cecília (Autor:in) / Koppány, Krisztián (Autor:in) / Kondor, Attila Csaba (Autor:in) / Szabó, Balázs (Autor:in)
Cities ; 101
24.03.2020
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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