@article{160466,
  keywords = {Greenhouse Gas Accounting},
  author = {A. Ramaswami and A. Chavez and J. Ewing-Thiel and K.E. Reeve},
  title = {Two Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting at the City-scale},
  abstract = {<p>Community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting is confounded by the relatively small spatial size of cities compared to nations, due to which</p>

<p>{\textbullet} Essential infrastructures{\textemdash}commuter and airline transport, energy supply, water supply, wastewater infrastructures, etc.{\textemdash}cross city boundaries, hence energy use to provide these services often occurs outside the boundary of the cities using them.</p>

<p>{\textbullet} Significant trade of other goods and services also occurs across cities, with associated embodied GHGs.</p>

<p>Consequently, human activity in cities{\textemdash}occurring in residential, commercial, and industrial sectors{\textemdash}stimulates in-boundary GHG emissions occurring within the geopolitical boundary of the community, as well as trans-boundary emissions (occurring outside). Allocating in-boundary and trans-boundary GHG emissions to communities can be achieved using different approaches described below.</p>
},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Environmental Science \& Technology},
  doi = {10.1021/es201166n},
  language = {eng},
}