Audrey Stanton, Wissam Kontar, Juliet Ramey-Lariviere, Andrea Hicks
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Redefining sustainable commuting: emerging trends and pandemic-induced changes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, daily commuting was considered standard practice for many employees. The pandemic propelled a shift to hybrid and remote work, and the subsequent sustainability implications are highlighted through a survey-based case study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This study investigated potential sustainability advantages and disadvantages of implementing optional hybrid and remote work through environmental impact analysis and thematic coding. Weather-induced mode shifts, local transportation fuel mix, and regional electricity mix were accounted for. Findings indicate a substantial reduction in the energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollutants associated with commuting changes post-pandemic due to the option of remote work. A 40%-48% reduction was observed across environmental impact categories, representing an annual savings of nearly 7 million kJ of energy and 480 kg carbon dioxide equivalent per person. Results also indicate an annual reduction of over 1,600 mi. commuted and nearly 100 hr per person spent in travel. Thematic coding identified qualitative impacts including personal benefits, productivity levels, and work-life balance of remote work. The findings have relevance for decision making around the built environment as well as human health and well-being. Applications of the findings are pertinent for many businesses and locations, as workplaces evaluate post-pandemic commute modality options. As the need to curtail transportation emissions intensifies in the face of climate change, remote and hybrid work may offer sustainable and innovative solutions.
期刊介绍:
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) publishes the science underpinning environmental decision making and problem solving. Papers submitted to IEAM must link science and technical innovations to vexing regional or global environmental issues in one or more of the following core areas:
Science-informed regulation, policy, and decision making
Health and ecological risk and impact assessment
Restoration and management of damaged ecosystems
Sustaining ecosystems
Managing large-scale environmental change
Papers published in these broad fields of study are connected by an array of interdisciplinary engineering, management, and scientific themes, which collectively reflect the interconnectedness of the scientific, social, and environmental challenges facing our modern global society:
Methods for environmental quality assessment; forecasting across a number of ecosystem uses and challenges (systems-based, cost-benefit, ecosystem services, etc.); measuring or predicting ecosystem change and adaptation
Approaches that connect policy and management tools; harmonize national and international environmental regulation; merge human well-being with ecological management; develop and sustain the function of ecosystems; conceptualize, model and apply concepts of spatial and regional sustainability
Assessment and management frameworks that incorporate conservation, life cycle, restoration, and sustainability; considerations for climate-induced adaptation, change and consequences, and vulnerability
Environmental management applications using risk-based approaches; considerations for protecting and fostering biodiversity, as well as enhancement or protection of ecosystem services and resiliency.