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PLANNING
ZERO CARBON DISTRICT
Low-Carbon and Climate Resilient (LC-CR)
development pathway
GUIDED BY:
Ms. SHIVANI CHOUHAN
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
DEHRADUN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEHRADUN
BY:
SAUMYA BANSAL
B.ARCH 5th YEAR SECTION A
OVERVIEW
Climate is changing at an alarming rate. Surface temperature is increasing on daily basis.
Monsoons are changing their ways and time, glaciers are melting and sea levels are rising. This
change directly hits natural disasters like Flooding, Droughts and puts human life and
investment in jeopardy. Only way out is to move hand in hand with environment and
development.
Our cities, being unorganized and insensitive to nature create a big impact on environment
and fall in the category of major reasons to cause global warming and temperature rise.
Industrialization and modernization leads to structures that release greenhouse gases in
atmosphere. These gases tend to trap sun rays and eventually cause rise in temperature.
This study provides case studies of zero carbon townships in world and suggests strategies for
how to reduce carbon footprint of cities.
AIM
To study the impacts of global warming on society, reasons of global warming and to provide
strategies and planning guidelines for future cities.
OBJECTIVES
Study the indications of climate change with respect to temperature rise in various parts of
world
Study the causes of climate change focusing on temperature rise and global warming
primarily.
Give a brief idea of natural disasters and climatic variations associated with global warming
on society and cities.
Study the causes of global warming and give an idea about what is carbon footprint and
how it forms major reason to cause global warming
Provide strategies to reduce carbon footprint on township level and give case studies of
zero carbon townships in world.
SCOPE
Awareness among people can help reduce carbon footprint on individual level
contributing towards large scale reduction.
Awareness about zero carbon townships and strategies to reduce carbon
footprint
Zero Carbon Townships will reduce impact of human activities on earth and will
make earth a better place to be lived in.
CURRENT SCENARIO
MELTING OF GLACIERS
www.nasa.gov
MELTING OF GLACIERS
https://matrixworldhr.com/
When water is too warm, corals will expel the algae living in their tissues causing the coral to turn
completely white
http://www2.lbl.gov
2046-2065
2080-2099
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
SUCCESSFUL
DEVELOPMENT
EACH NATION
FOR ITSELF
GLOBAL WARMING
Global Warming is the
increase of Earth's
average
surface
temperature due to
effect of greenhouse
gases, such as carbon
dioxide
emissions
from burning fossil
fuels
or
from
deforestation, which
trap heat that would
otherwise
escape
from Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/
The effect of global warming on the climate of India has led to climate disasters.
India now falls in disaster-prone area.
The rise in precipitation, the melting of glaciers and rising sea levels have the
ability to affect the Indian climate negatively, with an increase in events of floods,
hurricanes, and storms.
http://abcnews.go.com
http://www.treehugger.com
DROUGHTS
https://www.theguardian.com/
A dried up pond in Talagoan, 90 miles north-east of Mumbai. Severe drought has left hundreds of millions
reeling and experts predict the situation will only worsen as summer stretches on
www.mapsofindia.com
http://www.indexmundi.com/
9%
9%
36%
10%
25%
70%
21%
ELECTRICITY
TRANSPORT
DOMESTIC
AGRICULTURE
The building and construction sector emits about 22 per cent of the total annual CO2 emissions. 70 per
cent of the construction sector emissions result mainly from the products / industrial processes the
four energy intensive building materials i.e. steel, cement, bricks and lime.
www.researchgate.net
Giant umbrellas providing shade inbuilt with solar panels Source: www.
dezeen.com
PRELIMANARY
ASSESSMENT
DETAILED
ASSESSMENT
FOLLOW-UP
Future city development should encourage the use of public transit by design of a
mixed-use, transit oriented development; all leading to significantly reduced GHG
emissions.
Cities should be dense and compact in the center so that more people can
accommodate in and commuting could be reduced. This would automatically cut
down up to 40% of carbon emission as people could walk to their work or travel
less.
Inter connection through GHG free public transport and transit orient
development could be of a great help.
By reorienting the street grid, optimization in solar exposure and protection from
wind can be achieved to save energy on lighting, heating and cooling, while
making outdoor area more hospitable.
Buildings should only be designed according to green building guidelines by LEED
and GRIHA
EIA should be compulsory for every structure to pass with.
Most of the residents should live within a 10-minute walk of the commercial
center.
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