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Out-of-town shopping and its induced CO2-emissions
Dalarna University, School of Technology and Business Studies, Statistics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2317-9157
Dalarna University, School of Technology and Business Studies, Human Geography.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4871-833X
School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University.
2013 (English)In: Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, ISSN 0969-6989, E-ISSN 1873-1384, Vol. 20, no 4, p. 16p. 382-388Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Planning policies in several European countries have aimed at hindering the expansion of out-of-town shopping centers. One argument for this is concern for the increase in transport and a resulting increase in environmental externalities such as CO2-emissions. This concern is weakly founded in science as few studies have attempted to measure CO2-emissions of shopping trips as a function of the location of the shopping centers. In this paper we conduct a counter-factual analysis comparing downtown, edge-of-town and out-of-town shopping. In this comparison we use GPS to track 250 consumers over a time-span of two months in a Swedish region. The GPS-data enters the Oguchi’s formula to obtain shopping trip-specific CO2-emissions. We find that consumers’ out-of-town shopping would generate an excess of 60 per cent CO2-emissions whereas downtown and edge-of-town shopping centers are comparable.

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Elsevier, 2013. Vol. 20, no 4, p. 16p. 382-388
Keywords [en]
Car-specific CO2-emissions, Counter-factual, Dense network, GPS tracking, Regional shopping centers
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Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Economic Geography
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Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, General Microdata Analysis - retail; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis, General Microdata Analysis - transports
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-12032DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2013.03.003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84878133533OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-12032DiVA, id: diva2:611833
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Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development CouncilAvailable from: 2013-03-19 Created: 2013-03-19 Last updated: 2025-02-05Bibliographically approved

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