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Consumption of Energy and Transport in Urban
Households The role of urban planning vs green
consumerism in promoting sustainable
consumption Ingrid T. Norland and Erling Holden
Program for Research and Documentation for a
Sustainable Society Centre for Development and
the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo
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SusHomes Household consumption of energy and
transport in eight residential areas in the
Greater Oslo Region

• The project is based on three main assumptions
• that significant and increasing environmental
  damage due to private household consumption
  presents a major challenge in achieving
  sustainable development
• that individual environmental attitudes form a
  solid basis for achieving a more sustainable
  consumption practice in households and
• that a large part of the private household
  consumption appears to be influenced by our
  physical living situation, e.g. type of housing
  and location within the city.

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Research model
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Sustainable Urban Form

• Our analyses support the idea of the compact city
  as the preferred sustainable urban form
• Densely and concentrated housing development
• Multi-family housing and row housing of moderate
  size
• Proximity to Oslo centre or sub-centre providing
  basic services
• Mixed development (dwellings, services,
  workplaces)
• Discourage urban sprawl
• But,
• Challenges appear for the compact city

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The Compact City Challenge 1
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The Compact City Challenge 2
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The Compact City Challenge 3
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Four attitude-levels

• Respondent is member of the Norwegian
  Environmental Home Guard (NEHG)
• Respondent is a registered member in one or more
  environmental organisations
• Respondents attitude towards household
  consumption in general
• Respondents attitude towards a specific
  household consumption category

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Membership and energy use
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Urban form vs green attitudes