Brief summary of the Land Use and Energy Utilization Project

Technical Report · Mon Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1975

OSTI ID:7240651

The structural and developmental components associated with the way society uses energy can best be dealt with through an understanding of land use, with all that that term implies. The implementation of energy conservation strategies intended to effect the long-term structural changes that determine energy growth requires that an understanding of the interdependencies between the use of land and the use of energy be developed. Such a project was initiated in June 1974 with four specific goals: (1) to improve the generic understanding of the relationship between land use and energy utilization; (2) to establish a methodology and the technical information for the derivation of the energy demands associated with alternative land use policies; (3) to assess the influence of a selected set of energy-conserving measures on total energy demand in a region; and (4) to provide local, regional, and state land-use planners with a data base and a set of procedures for incorporating energy conservation considerations into their choices and decisions with respect to future land use. A case study concerning the potential reduction on energy demand in the Long Island Nassau-Suffolk Region is presented. (MCW)

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. (USA); State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook (USA). Inst. for Urban Sciences Research
• DOE Contract Number: E(30-1)-16
• OSTI ID: 7240651
• Report Number(s): BNL-20745
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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