Presentations
- Introduction
- Theme 1: Measurement and Observations
- Theme 2: Patterns, Variability and Modeling at Multiple Scales
- Theme 3: Influence and Development Processes on Carbon Emissions
- Theme 4: Mitigation Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges for Urban and Regional Carbon Management at Multiple Scales
- Wrap Up
- Side Events
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Introduction
Keynote Presentation
- Dr. Michael Raupach, Urbanization and the Global Carbon Cycle
Introductory Remarks
- Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal, The Global Carbon Project and URCM (Urban and Regional Carbon Management)
Theme 1: Measurement and Observations Focus
Measurement and Observations of urban and regional emissions trajectories using tools such as comprehensive place-based carbon budgets and inventories, sectoral carbon budgets and material flow analysis.
Keynote Presentation
- Dr. Kevin Gurney, Regional Carbon Variations: Inversions and Biogeochemistry (pdf, 9.5MB)
Oral Presentations
- Ahmed Balogun: Assessing the Carbon, Heat and Water Vapor exchanges of Lawn Ecosystems in an Urban Area - Case study of two heat wave periods (pdf, 0.5MB) (abstract)
- Darrel Baumgardner: Evaluation of Mexico City Black Carbon in the Ixta-Popo National Park (pdf, 2.5MB) (abstract)
- Penelope Canan: Improving the Relevance of Case Studies for Carbon Management (pdf, 0.02MB) (abstract)
- Antonina Galvan Fernandez: Carbon Capture in Coffee Crops (pdf, 1.4MB) (abstract)
- Benianimo Gioli: Observation and comparison of c-fluxes of cities and peri-urban forests (pdf, 1.2MB) (abstract)
- Rob Neff: Estimating the geographic variability in greenhouse gas emissions from transportation: method and application (pdf, 26.2MB) (abstract)
- Eric Pardyjak: Measurements of trace-gas fluxes and the surface energy budget in the semi-arid urban Salt Lake Valley, Utah USA (pdf, 4.4MB) (abstract)
- Debra Roberts: The Potential Role of Municipal Open Space in Carbon Management at the Local Government Level (pdf, 0.8MB) (abstract)
- Carlos Sierra: Carbon fluxes associated with hydroelectric generation in the Porce Region of Columbia (pdf, 1.0MB) (abstract)
- Vladimir Stolbovoy: Verification of carbon management measures in mineral soils of the European Union (pdf, 1.4MB) (abstract)
- Anastasia Svirejeva-Hopkins: Dynamics of Urbanized Territories and Future Scenarios for Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions: Multi-scale analysis (pdf, 0.7MB) (abstract)
- Erik Velasco: Eddy covariance measurements of CO2 fluxes from Mexico City (pdf, 2.7MB) (abstract)
Poster Presentations
- Claudio Balbontin: Impact of land use and land-use change on CO2 emissions in Mexico (pdf, 0.4MB) (abstract)
- Edgar Flores Jardines: Turbine Exhausts Monitoring by Fourier - transform infrared emisssion spectroscopy (pdf, 0.5MB) (abstract)
- Sergio Franco-Maass: Aboveground carbon estimation of a temperate forest in the Nevado de Touluca National Park, Mexico (pdf, 0.5MB) (abstract)
- Manuel Gonzalez: Characterization of particulate organic carbon from water column in the Gulf of Mexico (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Jose Martin Hernandez-Ayon: Biogeochemical Changes in Hypersaline Mexican Coastal Lagoon during intense upwelling events (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Angelica Jimenez-Aguilar: Carbon stocks under different land use change and land cover scenarios: a case study in the watershed in the Sierra de San Miguelito, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (pdf, 2.2MB) (abstract)
- Jose Navar: Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Forest Ecosystems of Northwestern Mexico (pdf, 0.6MB) (abstract)
- Marcela Olguin: Impact of land use and land-use change on CO2 emissions in Mexico (pdf, 0.6MB) (abstract)
- Siwatt Pongpiajun: Semi-volatile Organic Compounds (SOC's) and carbonaceous aerosols in rural atmosphere, UK during the 2003 winter period (pdf, 0.2MB) (abstract)
- Mahmudur Rahman: Human Induced Land Cover Change and Carbon Emission: Test Case from South-Eastern Bangladesh (pdf, 0.7MB) (abstract)
- Sulfikar Sulfikar: Nutrient spiraling in streams with different catchment characteristics (pdf, 0.08MB) (abstract)
Theme 2: Patterns, Variability and Modeling at Multiple Scales Focus
Patterns and variability (temporal and spatial) in urban and regional carbon footprints and their influence on future global carbon trajectories; modeling strategies at multiple scales and complexities including techniques and tools that stimulate the factors influencing and causing changes in carbon emissions over time; large scale insights from earth system modeling approaches and new ideas for incorporating urban emissions, transport and other human dimensions into the global models.
Keynote Presentation
- Dr. Linda Mearns, Progress in Earth System Modeling: Where will coupling end? (pdf, 1.7MB)
Oral Presentations
- Eduardo Behrentz: Estimation of Bogota's Mobile Source Emissions Inventory and Analysis of Relevant Variables (pdf, 1.9MB) (abstract)
- Galina Churkina: How to estimate the role of urban areas in continental carbon balance? (pdf, 0.2MB) (abstract)
- Laura Dawidowski: On Road Mobile Emissions in Argentina: Driving Variables for Vehicle Number in Spatially Disaggregated Inventories (pdf, 0.7MB) (abstract)
- Kevin Gurney: Improved Fossil/Industrial CO2 Observations and Emissions Modeling: the "Vulcan" project (pdf, 2.5MB) (abstract)
- Tsuguki Kinoshita: Investigation of Regional CO2 Absorption Potential Using Wood Biomass (pdf, 0.7MB) (abstract)
- David Lewis: Carbon stabilization in urban and urbanizing soils: the effects historical land use (pdf, 1.2MB) (abstract)
- Christina Milesi: Quantifying the role of urban ecosystems on terrestrial carbon cycling (pdf, 2.9MB) (abstract)
- Dennis Ojima: Integrated Regional Carbon Analysis from Anthropogenic and Biospheric Sources and Sinks: a Colorado Application of a holistic framework to evaluate the Urban-Rural interface (pdf, 2.8MB) (abstract)
- Mauricio Osses: Comparative Assessment of Road Transport Emission Inventories in Five Metropolotan Areas of South America (pdf, 3.3MB) (abstract)
- Michael Reilly: Spatial Configuration and the Urban Carbon Footprint (pdf, 1.0MB) (abstract)
- Larry Tieszen: Natural Resource and Carbon Management in the Sahel (pdf, 17.5MB) (abstract)
Poster Presentations
- Tulio Arredondo: Long-term land use change and effects on soil carbon content in semi-arid grasslands (pdf, 0.07MB) (abstract)
- Ruth Cerezo-Mota: Impacts of ocean-atmospheric interactions and climate change on regional convective phenomena in North America (pdf, 1.0MB) (abstract)
- Francisco Javier Garcia-Villalobos: Characterization of Elemental Composition in Abyssal Surface sediments in the Gulf of Mexico (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Kristina Trusilova: Impacts of Urban Land Cover Modifications on the Carbon Cycle in Europe (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
Theme 3: Influence and Development Processes on Carbon Emissions Focus
The influence of development processes on present day net emissions (e.g., studies of spatial patterns and densities of development and their impacts on carbon emissions, changes in net emissions or carbon budgets over time, and their association with key development decisions) including examples of estimations of carbon consequences of decisions in various sectors (e.g., transportation infrastructures and systems, population dynamics, lifestyles, technological innovations, manufacturing, forestry, agriculture, bio-energy, heating, and avoided emissions.)
Keynote Presentation
- Dr. Antonio Contreras, "Integrating carbon management into the development strategies of urbanizing regions in Asia: implications of urban function, form and role"
Oral Presentations
- Richard Dawson: Towards an integrated urban assessment framework (pdf, 2.2MB) (abstract)
- Philip Emmi: The Dynamics of a Carbon-Based Metropolis (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Paul Isolo Mukwaya: Planning for Climate and Carbon Friendly Cities: Challenges in Kampala City Region (pdf, 0.5MB) (abstract)
- Alejandro Leon: "Urbanization and carbon emissions in Latin America: lessons learnt from four case studies" (abstract)
- Peter Marcotullio: Potential futures for road-transportation CO2 emissions in the Asia-Pacific (pdf, 0.08MB) (abstract)
- Ioana Oprea: Analyzing globalization as source of carbon dioxide over the Asia-Pacific Region (pdf, 3.1MB) (abstract)
- Jose Ordonez-Diaz: Influence of carbon pools and emissions derived from land use change process in the Highlands in Central Mexico for 1986-2000 (pdf, 0.5MB) (abstract)
- Patricia Romero Lankao: Are we missing the point? Urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities (pdf, 0.2MB) (abstract)
- Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez: Urbanization and the Carbon Cycle: Reflections for a Research Agenda and the Science-Practice Interface (pdf, 0.8MB) (abstract)
- Niels Schulz: "40 years of industrialization and urban development: The metabolism of Singapore" (abstract)
- Chhemendra Sharma: An assessment of Urban Development Pathways for Delhi Using Emission Trajectories (pdf, 0.6MB) (abstract)
Poster Presentations
- Maria de Jesus Ordonez-Diaz: The Dynamics of Vegetation Cover and Land Use Change in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, 1970 - 2000 (pdf, 8.5MB) (abstract)
Theme 4: Mitigation Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges for Urban and Regional Carbon Management at Multiple Scales Focus
Evaluation of existing management strategies that explicitly or implicitly have an impact on GHG emissions, in terms of the factors explaining their success, constraints and challenges; evaluation and measurement of carbon consequences of decisions in various sectors across rural and urban environments as well as design of regional/urban emission reductions approaches which include and make use of win-win strategies, such as those that aim to reduce net GHG emissions, improve air quality, and human welfare.
Keynote Presentation
- Dr. Tae Yong Jung, Theme 4: Mitigation Opportunities, Constraints and Challenges for Urban and Regional Carbon Management at Multiple Scales (pdf, 0.8MB)
Oral Presentations
- Stefan Bakker: CDM and urban air pollution: partnerships enhancing synergies in urban air quality and kyoto mechanisms (pdf, 0.5MB) (abstract)
- Mercy Borbor-Cordova: The Urban Process at the Guayaquil City, Ecuador: An Opportunity for Carbon Management (pdf, 1.6MB) (abstract)
- Togtoh Chuluun: Challenge for Carbon Emission Reduction in Ulaanbaatar City (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Marcos Daziano: Agribusiness and Bio-fuels in Argentina: A New Paradigm. Their application as a means to reduce carbon emissions (pdf, 0.9MB) (abstract)
- Ben de Jong: Priority areas for carbon mitigation projects in the LU sector of Mexico: the case of avoided deforestation (pdf, 4.5MB) (abstract)
- Lisa Dilling: Cross-scale carbon governance challenges in the United States (pdf, 0.9MB) (abstract)
- Jason Funk: "Predicting land-use response to carbon sequestration incentives in New Zealand" (abstract)
- Satoshi Ishii: "Potential impacts of centralized biogas recovery on municipal solid waste management and CO2 reduction in Yokohoma" (abstract)
- Sarah Knuth: Building Local Partnerships to Mitigate Climate Change: The Role of Student Research (pdf, 0.09MB) (abstract)
- Frank Ling: Scenarios for Global Decarbonization: Review of Technological Options for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (pdf, 1.4MB) (abstract)
- Andrew McAllister: Border Energy Saving Program: Energy Audits and Project Facilitation in San Diego and Baja California (pdf, 0.6MB) (abstract)
- Luciana Melchert: "Carbon management at the building level: technological innovations and policy implications" (abstract)
- Mara Regina Mendes: Clean Development Mechanism as a mitigation opportunity at urban level: isues and challenges (pdf, 0.9MB) (abstract)
- Enrique Puliafito: Urban ecology: linking carbon emissions and air quality (pdf, 1.8MB) (abstract)
- Erich Schienke: Knowledge Networks and multi-interpretive frameworks for strategic carbon management (pdf, 2.1MB) (abstract)
- Claudia Sheinbaum: Local Climate Action Strategy Mexico City (pdf, 0.9MB) (abstract)
- Brian Stone: Urban Heat Island Mitigation as a Global Climate Change Management Strategy (pdf, 2.4MB) (abstract)
- Karen Thundiyil: Mexico City Fuel Savings and Emissions Reductions by improving Vehicle Air Conditioning (pdf, 0.9MB) (abstract)
- Govinda Timilsina: "Climate change and Canadian cities: impacts, measures, opportunities, barriers" (abstract)
- Rick Van Schoik: US-Mexican Carbon Flows and Trading (pdf, 0.1MB) (abstract)
- Ruth Wood: Integrating Air Pollutant and Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction at the Urban Level (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Brent Yarnal: Local Efforts to Monitor and Mitigate Greenhouse-Gas Emissions (pdf, 0.5MB) (abstract)
- Sudhakar Yedla: "Long term planning for GHG reduction targets in urban transport sector in India - a study of two mega cities" (abstract)
Poster Presentations
- Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald: The Dahlem Desertification Paradigm (DDP) - an emerging tool for holistic C management in drylands (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Sandrina Pereira: Development of a Local Renewable Energy Planning as path to a Biodiesel Implementation Plan (pdf, 0.3MB) (abstract)
- Sundaresan Sureshkumar: Carbon sequestration Options (pdf, 0.01MB)
- Paul Thangata: Modelling Carbon Stocks in Smallholder Agrosystems in Malwai: A Farming Systems Approach (pdf, 0.4MB)
- Yukiko Yoshida: Developing and testing air conditioning and lighting technologies to reduce CO2 emissions in the commercial sector (pdf, 2.2MB) (abstract)
Wrap up
- Dr. Michael Raupach & Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal, Emerging Directions and Next Steps (pdf, 0.02MB)
Side Events
- Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) brainstorming session for the development of an urban initiative in the Americas (Dr. Patricia Romero Lankao)
- Responsibility, Opportunity, and Vision for Higher Education in Urban and Regional Carbon Management (Dr. Penelope Canan)
- Landscapes, Global Environmental Issues and Sustainability: The Role of Research Universities (pdf, 1.2MB) (Dr. David Schmidly)
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