The Study of the Effect of Rural-Urban Spatial Structure on Residential Energy Consumption

• Main Authors: Lin, Ching-Ju, 林靜茹
• Other Authors: Bian, Tai-Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/np3ytg

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 地政學系碩士在職專班 === 106 === In recent years, with the intensification of global climate changes contributing a major impact on environmental ecology, countries all over the world have had to re-think the issue of energy use. Confronted with the crisis of global warming and energy exhaustion, our government, through the Spatial Planning Act, has proposed that intensive urban development will, inevitably, adopt the trend of environmental sustainability viewed from the perspective of national land planning. However, relevant literature indicates that no clearly defined linear relationship exists between urban form and energy consumption, and it is rather the level of density that determines the greater or lesser consumption of energy. Therefore, this study has taken 352 townships and cities in Taiwan as its empirical subjects, and will, from the perspective of the development of urban and rural spatial structures in Taiwan, analyze the impact of city compactness or sprawling development with spatial dependence on residential energy consumption. Then, spatial autocorrelation indicators and linear regression will be used as tools to investigate the type of spatial aggregation to analyze the factors that affect residential energy consumption. Empirical results show that although high-density environmental areas and high-frequency activities have a greater demand for energy due to their dense population and concentrated households, they are more effective in controlling residential energy consumption than in low-density areas. Under the concept of facilitating sustainable urban development regarding the spatial structure in Taiwan, sprawling development should be controlled while the development of compact cities should also be re-approached. The management of sustainable space and other policies that focus on growth management should be emphasized to combine energy utility efficiency and a compact urban spatial pattern to facilitate the survival of the ecological environment, improvement of environmental quality, and drive the sustainable development of cities.