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Urban Metabolism and Climate Change Perspective for Sustainable Cities
This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase...
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Role of Sustainable Urban Metabolism in Urban Planning
The term “metabolism” refers to the fundamental process whereby living organisms maintain a constant exchange of products and materials to their...
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Species Selection in Urban Forestry—Towards Urban Metabolism
With increasing urbanization in the twentieth century, the incorporation of trees into urban settlements has increased and management of trees within...
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Urban Metabolism—An Approach for Enhancing Resilience
Along with the increase in the size of the city and the high rate of urbanization, unsustainable urban development can cause severe ecological and...
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Interlinkages Between Urban Metabolism and Sustainability: An Overview
Urban metabolism is a concept in which the city is examined using biological principles that relate to the internal mechanisms by which living...
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Urban Metabolism and Global Climate Change: An Overview
Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the urban sprawl and climate...
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Smart Urban Metabolism: A Big-Data and Machine Learning Perspective
Smart urban metabolism is a contemporary conception of urban metabolism which includes modern-day technologies dealing with the complex challenges of...
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Emerging Approaches for Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Extensive urbanization with rapidly increasing human population leads to changes in urban environment specially land use pattern, energy budget,...
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Policy Initiatives on Urban Metabolism in Ghana (2002–2021)
The Government of Ghana has a major role to play in responding effectively to the problems and challenges resulting from poor urban planning and...
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Integrating Ecological and Social Concepts for Urban Metabolism Studies
Urban sustainability efforts are increasingly related to concepts from self-sufficient natural ecosystems. Focusing on the metabolic characteristics...
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Urban Metabolism to Understand Changes in Urban Ecology: A Case of Bengaluru
The impact of the interaction between socio-economic and political processes with natural ecosystems and the built environment has been well captured...
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Transitioning Urban Agriculture to a Circular Metabolism at a Neighbourhood Level
We are living in an era of human dominance which has caused a pervasive influence on the planets’ ecosystem and climate. The consequences of...
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Geospatial Analyses for Urban Metabolism and Climate Change
The amount of CO2 sequestered by trees in any region may play an important role in reducing the harmful impacts of CO2 and assisting in designing...
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Urban Metabolism in the Circular Bio-economy of Tomorrow
A bio-economy is grounded on the use of renewable, biotic resources. A circular economy, on the other hand, emphasises resource conservation in...
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City Core and Urban Sprawl
Cities around the world occupy 2% of the area of the globe, and are accountable for about 80% of the consumption of all the energy produced by Earth....
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Urban Metabolism
Urban metabolism (UM) is fundamentally an accounting framework whose goal is to quantify the inflows, outflows, and accumulation of resources (such...
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Industrial Metabolism
The third social metabolism regime appeared when humans extracted goods from nature by mobilizing not only solar energy, but also other new kinds of...
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Urban Metabolism Evaluation Methods: Life Cycle Assessment and Territorial Regeneration
Urban Metabolism (UM) is a scientific phenomenon that comprises individual processes taking place in all cities at different spatial and temporal...
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Systemic Urban-Wetland Interdependencies
Current predictions highlight major climate-related impacts on coastal cities around the world. At the same time, wetlands provide important services...
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The Circular Metabolic Urban Landscape
The study of the city as a living organism in constant transformation is especially linked to the investigation of its metabolic flows and their...