重新定义可持续通勤:威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的新兴趋势和流行病引起的变化。

IF 8.4 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Audrey Stanton, Wissam Kontar, Juliet Ramey-Lariviere, Andrea Hicks
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摘要

在2019冠状病毒病大流行之前,每天上下班被认为是许多员工的标准做法。大流行推动了向混合和远程工作的转变,威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的一项基于调查的案例研究强调了随后的可持续性影响。本研究通过环境影响分析和专题编码调查了实施可选混合和远程工作的潜在可持续性优势和劣势。考虑了天气引起的模式转变、当地交通燃料结构和区域电力结构;调查结果表明,由于选择远程工作,大流行后与通勤变化相关的能源消耗、温室气体排放和空气污染物大幅减少。在环境影响类别中,减少了40-48%,相当于每人每年节省近700万千焦的能源和480公斤的二氧化碳当量。研究结果还表明,每年通勤里程减少了1600多英里,人均旅行时间减少了近100小时。专题编码确定了远程工作的定性影响,包括个人利益、生产力水平和工作与生活的平衡。这些发现对围绕建筑环境以及人类健康和福祉的决策具有相关性。研究结果的应用与许多企业和地点有关,因为工作场所评估大流行后的通勤方式选择。面对气候变化,减少交通运输排放的需求加剧,远程和混合工作可能提供可持续和创新的解决方案。
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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.

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Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESTOXICOLOGY&nbs-TOXICOLOGY
CiteScore
5.90
自引率
6.50%
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156
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.
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