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Governance of Urban Infrastructure in India: Exploring the Approaches, Attributes, and Opportunities Towards Sustainability
Of late, infrastructural issues have become the prime concern of urban governance in India. Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), which are constitutionally...
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Social Metabolism at the Local Scale
This and the following chapters demonstrate the versatility of Social Metabolism and how SM makes it possible to address a range of issues at...
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Urban Sustainability: The Way Forward
The anthropogenic pursuits and human interventions have brought enormous transformation in the bio-physical sphere of the urban ecosystem. The cities...
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Building More Sustainable and Resilient Urban Energy Infrastructures in Southern Africa
This chapter explores and discusses the status, gaps, and options for building more sustainable and resilient urban energy infrastructures in...
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Organic Metabolism
All the evidence points to the fact that about five thousand years ago, a complex combination of factors gave way to a qualitatively different...
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Trends of Urban and Territorial Reconfiguration in Metropolitan Buenos Aires
The chapter explores the urban and territorial reconfiguration trends of the metropolitan Buenos Aires in pandemicPandemic times. It identifies the...
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Water quality decline in peri-urban areas: a case study of Myorpur block, Uttar Pradesh, India
This article examines the deterioration of water quality in the peri-urban areas of Sonbhadra district, which is an adjacent district to Varanasi, a...
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Typology of urban theories in expressing the concept of urbanization
Urbanization has been vastly studied in the theoretical literature related to the fields of urban studies. Different approaches to urban...
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Managing Snow in an Arctic City: Urban Political Ecology Approach
How do we understand the snow–city intertwinement in the Arctic context? To answer this question, we have examined the environmental management...
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Urban Regeneration: An “Incremental Circularity” Perspective
Urban Regeneration (UR) is an approach to urban development contrasting soil consumption by catalyzing social energies to reuse urban existing...
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Urban environmental social sciences frameworks
This segment discusses the significance of social sciences approaches to capture contemporary urban environmental trajectories. It focuses on the two...
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Social Metabolism at the Regional Scale
To satisfy its needs, P has two options, that go from one extreme to the other: obtaining all that is required either from ecological exchange, i.e.,...
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Circular City: Urban and Territorial Perspectives
The United Nation’s 17 Sustainable development Goals (SDG) can be considered as the lighthouse of the great challenges which humanity will be...
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The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)
The lack of vertical stratigraphic sondages and open area excavations constitutes a challenge to understanding Mauritanian urbanism. This makes the...
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Social Metabolism at the National Scale
Regarding material exchanges and flows, every nation state (N) ultimately functions in the same way as a unit of appropriation/production (P). This...
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Social Metabolism: Origins, History, Approaches, and Main Schools
The human species’ main challenge today is the future. The future is a growing concern. As never before, natural and social processes have become...
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Urban Metabolism and Open Data: Opportunities and Challenges for Urban Resource Efficiency
Cities are responsible for approximately three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions and energy use. Urban metabolism is a research field that...
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Introduction: Peri-Urban Water Security in South Asia
This chapter sets the context for the analysis of water security in peri-urban South Asia. Urbanization has been a key demographic trend globally as...
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Changing Agriculture and Climate Variability in Peri-Urban Gurugram, India
Farmers across India are protesting the apathy of the state towards the agricultural sector, which is facing a triple crisis – economic, ecological...
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Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings: An Ecological Indicator
Urban metabolism (UM) is the sum of processes for which cities mobilize, consume, and transform their resources for built environments to function...