Effect of consumption choices on fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus through households

被引：38

作者：

Baker L.A. ^{[1
]}

Hartzheim P.M. ^{[2
]}

Hobbie S.E. ^{[3
]}

King J.Y. ^{[3
,4
]}

Nelson K.C. ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] Water Resources Center, University of Minnesota, 173 McNeal Hall, St. Paul, MN 55108

[2] Water Resources Science Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

[3] Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

[4] Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

[5] Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

来源：

Urban Ecosystems | 2007年 / 10卷 / 2期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Carbon; Emissions; Fertilizer; Flux; Food; Household; Household ecosytem; Lawn; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Wastewater;

D O I：

10.1007/s11252-006-0014-3

中图分类号：

学科分类号：

摘要：

Households are an important scale of analysis for human ecosystems because they are a major source of pollutants and could thus be a new focus for pollution management, particularly for education-based source reduction strategies. The household is also a meaningful unit for analysis of human ecosystems, being common to all human cultures. This study develops a Household Flux Calculator (HFC) to compute C, N, and P fluxes for scenarios intended to represent three levels of household consumption: low, typical, and high. All three scenarios were developed for suburban households with two adults and two children in the Minneapolis-St. Paul (Twin Cities) metropolitan area, Minnesota. Calculated ratios of fluxes between high and low consumption households were 3.5:1 for C, 2.7:1 for N and 1.4:1 for P. Results suggest a high level of discretionary consumption that could be reduced without a substantial reduction in standard of living. Thus, modest changes in behavior in high consumption households would greatly reduce fluxes of C, N, and P without major changes in lifestyle. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.

引用

页码：97 / 117

页数：20

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