Energy and Spatial Structure: A Rural Example

S E Owens
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S E Owens: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, England

Environment and Planning A, 1984, vol. 16, issue 10, 1319-1337

Abstract: Energy requirements for the journey to work, resulting from alternative population and employment growth patterns in a rural area of England, are estimated and compared. Both the absolute and relative energy-efficiency of alternative land-use patterns are shown to depend on assumptions about future mobility, implying that ideal spatial structures cannot be defined without reference to other important factors affecting travel behaviour and life-styles. Current trends in the area are leading to the land-use patterns which consistently emerged as being energy intensive in the analysis.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1068/a161319

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