Özet:

The main cause of carbon emissions is known as spreading urban structure, fossil fuel addiction, people's consumption habits. The consumption behavior of each individual, lifestyle, standard of life, etc. It causes carbon emissions in nature. Slow cities have emerged as a response to increasing consumption culture. It has developed as a movement that supports sustainable consumption and local production.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the carbon footprint in the slow town of Mudurnu on the basis of the results obtained from households and individual consumption behaviors. In Mudurnu, households consume energy, (electricity, coal, wood, pipeline gas, natural gas use) individual vehicle use, food production-consumption relationship (organic food preference, meat-milk consumption rates, local food production, ready food consumption, etc.Individual spending in lifestyle, recycling activities, etc. The research has been carried out on the basis of quantial factors.  The households have been detected footprints and individual carbon footprints. In the calculation of carbon footprints, the "carbonindependent.org" database has been used, and it has been conducted along with survey studies, mutual interviews, field observation studies. The study found that due to domestic warming, households and individual carbon footprints were high. In the framework of domestic warming and green energy, slow cities from the world and Turkey have been studied.  According to the claim that the household people need to be informed about carbon footprints in Mudurnu, general findings for reducing carbon footprints have been made.

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