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Sustainable Living and Mobility: One-Planet Strategies for a Better Future

Explore the One-Planet Living and One-Planet Mobility strategies to address the issues with car use, understand why people use cars, and the role of roads in shaping our habits and decisions. Discover the need to prioritize sustainable choices for a more environmentally friendly future.

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Sustainable Living and Mobility: One-Planet Strategies for a Better Future

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  1. Content • One-Planet-Living • One-Planet-Mobility strategies • Issue with car • Why use car • Time budget • Habitual decisions making • Moral decision making • The role of the road Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 2

  2. One-Planet-Living

  3. Per capita ecological footprint of nations NZ >> 5.8 gha pc Available >> 1.9 gha pc WWF, 2004 Living Planet Report Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 4

  4. Food Hols Waste Travel Energy One-Planet-Living If everybody led the lifestyle of OECD countries, within current technological systems, we would need three to five planets to sustain us. BioRegional, 2003 Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 5

  5. One-Planet-Mobility

  6. One-planet-living in London Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 7

  7. One-planet-mobility • 1gha per capita of land to sustain travel habits • 15% of total footprint • But 37% of households don’t have a car, and only 18% have more than one Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 8

  8. One-planet-mobility at BedZED Hackbridge, LB Sutton 82 homes and work space Private and social housing Travel BioRegional Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 9

  9. One-planet-mobility at BedZED • Homes & office alternative to commuting • HomeZone • ZEDcars alternative to private car • Monitored 65% reduction in car use at BedZED BioRegional Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 10

  10. Issue with car

  11. Issue with car - traffic Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 12

  12. Issue with car – land use Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 13

  13. Issue with car - suburbia Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 14

  14. Issue with car • Use of non-renewables, • Greenhouse gases and other emissions, • Land use, • Eutrofication and acidification of ecosystems, • Noise, • Traffic jams, • Alienation of other forms of transport leading to restricted access to markets, employment and social facilities for disadvantaged groups, • Increasing obesity, • Road accidents • Changes to urban form (suburbanisation) that lead to social exclusion and criminality, • Impact of poor air quality on health Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 15

  15. Why use car

  16. Why car - convenience Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 17

  17. Why car – social facilitator Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 18

  18. Why car – I am what I drive Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 19

  19. Time budget

  20. Time budget Average travel times for the journey-to-work in 23 industrialised cities (1990) (Zeibots M.E. 2003) Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 21

  21. Time budget Typical daily tasks that make-up a daily routine (Zeibots M.E. 2003) Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 22

  22. Habitual decision making

  23. Perception Prediction Habitual behaviour Evaluation Impulsive behaviour Decision Acting Action Habitual decision making • Intuitive or habitual behaviour follows a perception of need straight into a pre-decided action – there is no evaluation involved and no decision has to be taken. • Most travel decisions (commute, shopping trips) are habitual Types of decisions making (Weggemans, 2004) Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 24

  24. Role of the road

  25. Role of the road • Roads – spaces for movements of cars • Car-orientated design can often encourage further car use and create ugly, anti-social spaces, which create barriers to pedestrians and cyclists Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 26

  26. Role of the road • Roads – public community spaces • Movement corridors (people, cycles, cars) • Meeting places, • Children's playgrounds • Green spaces • Key contextual factor in changing travel habits Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 27

  27. Home Zone • Design for multiple road uses – driving, walking, play • Aim – reduce car dependency, encourage community interaction, improve safety • Location - areas of social housing with high crime rates and antisocial behaviour Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 28

  28. Home Zone http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/environment/planning/urban_design/homezone.htm Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 29

  29. Embarcadero Expressway, San Francisco Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 30

  30. Embarcadera - a new urban setting Employee Presentation 3-00 - p 31

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