Twin Cities Household Ecosystem Project
Experiment Id
267
Introduction
We designed our methods to estimate carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus fluxes through individual households, and to address two primary questions:
- How are these fluxes distributed across households?
- What biophysical and socioeconomic factors contribute to differences in these fluxes across households?
Our hybrid approach combines:
- A mailed survey
- Energy provider records
- On-the-ground landscape measurements
- A computational tool (the Household Flux Calculator)
- Parcel data (interpreted using GIS)
The resulting dataset includes information on biophysical and socioeconomic variables that potentially influence household-level fluxes of elements. Using this method to study element fluxes at the household level allows us to explicitly link consumption choices and element fluxes.