Doctoral Dissertation Research: Urban Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Asian - Pacific Region

9224817哈里斯对发展中国家全球变化的人的层面的关注往往集中在改变农村土地利用模式上，但对自然环境条件产生影响的人类活动也在城市地区发生了深刻变化。亚洲快速发展的城市能源使用的变化可能会对未来向大气排放温室气体产生特别重大的影响。这一博士论文研究项目将评估人类活动如何改变宿务市进出风景和大气的化学和能量流动。宿务市是菲律宾南部一个快速发展的工业中心。将在大约600个家庭中进行一项家庭能源使用研究，特别关注从使用生物质到使用化石燃料的转变。这些调查的数据将与商业化石燃料使用数据一起进行分析，以便更好地评估影响用于不同类型活动的燃料的社会经济因素。这些分析将有助于为亚太城市开发综合能源和痕量气体排放模型。该项目将提供关于菲律宾一个有代表性的工业城市的有价值的新信息，特别关注对生物和大气系统产生影响的能源使用模式的变化。除了提供了一个处理一个重要主题的有用的案例研究外，添加论文结束声明。***

9224817 HARRISS Attention on the human dimensions of global change in developing countries has tended to focus on changing rural land- use patterns, but profound changes in human activities that impact on natural environmental conditions also have occurred in urban places. Changes in energy use in rapidly growing cities of Asia may have especially strong impacts on future emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This doctoral dissertation research project will assess the ways that human activities alter chemical and energy flows to and from the landscape and atmosphere in Cebu City, a rapidly growing industrial center in the southern Philippines. A household energy-use study will be conducted in about 600 households, with particular attention focusing on transitions from use of biomass to fossil fuels. The data from these surveys will be analyzed in concert with data on commercial fossil fuel use in order to better assess the socio- economic factors that influence fuels used for different kinds of activities. These analyses will contribute toward development of integrated energy and trace-gas emissions models for Asian- Pacific cities. This project will provide valuable new information about a representative industrial city in the Philippines, focusing special attention on changing patterns of energy use that impact on biological and atmospheric systems. In addition to providing a useful case study dealing with an important topic, the add dissertation end statement. ***