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Exploiting household consumption data: environmental impacts of archetypical behaviors
(2018)As major drivers of the economy, the environmental importance associated with households is unquestioned. Especially from a consumption-based accounting perspective, household consumption can be regarded as ultimately responsible for all resources consumption and emission releases that occur over the whole life cycle of products and services. However, given that purchase decisions are highly behavior-driven, devising effective and targeted ...Conference Poster -
Assessing the environmental impacts from housing and land-based mobility demand of households on a regional level
(2015)Mobility and housing are key consumption areas from an environmental perspective. Assessing environmental footprints of housing behavior and mobility patterns of households is thus an important first step to identify strategies for a sustainable development of urban settlements and for the abatement of adverse environmental impacts. In this study, a model for the life cycle assessment of housing and mobility of individual households was ...Conference Poster -
A virtual platform to evaluate policy scenarios targeting environmental impacts from household consumption
(2017)Household demand for products and services triggers a multitude of economic activities along the supply chain of each product and service, involving the use of resources and the release of emissions. Assessing environmental footprints of households is thus an important basis to identify environmental strategies. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive regionalized bottom-up model for Switzerland which is able to assess the environmental ...Conference Poster -
Quantifying the energy demand of households on a regional level: model application and evaluation, and case study
(2014)Energy is a key factor for economic and societal development. However, the dependence of today’s energy systems on fossil or on other non-renewable energy sources causes a range of adverse environmental impacts. The built environment with its associated heating and cooling loads, as well as the mobility sector are major energy consumers. Therefore, assessing and understanding environmental footprints of housing and mobility is essential ...Conference Poster -
Carbon footprint hotspots in a Swiss municipality
(2015)Zernez, a municipality with 1003 inhabitants in the Swiss Alps, has recently initiated a collaboration with ETH Zurich to identify ways to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The present study aimed thus at determining the current carbon footprint of Zernez so as to identify the most relevant sectors and reduction potentials regarding GHG emissions. For this purpose, material and energy flows were assessed. The main data source was ...Conference Poster