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Strategies of socio-ecological transition for a sustainable urban metabolism

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
Urbanization plays a key role in the human activities causing and feeding climate change. At present, climate change and other environmental issues are directly or indirectly related to the metabolism of cities.
Dario Padovan   +2 more
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How a socio-ecological metabolism approach can help to advance our understanding of changes in land-use intensity.

open access: yesEcol Econ, 2012
The quantity and quality of land use directly and indirectly relates to many “grand challenges” in sustainability science (Vitousek, 1997; Rindfuss et al., 2004; Global Land Project, 2005; Steffen et al., 2007; Turner et al., 2007). Land use is a major driver for habitat encroachment and biodiversity loss (Sala et al., 2000), for the alterations of ...
Erb KH.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Socio-ecological metabolism of cities: conceptualization, research schools, and modern foreign studies

open access: yesСоциологическая наука и социальная практика, 2016
The author of the article provides an overview of the original sources for the study of the conceptual foundations of socio-ecological metabolism of cities, as well as analysis of its basic schools, representatives and areas of modern scientific research.
Polina O. Ermolaeva
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Looking inside the Blackbox: Cuenca's water metabolism.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
The socio-ecological metabolism of the water connects concepts that emerge out of the complexity of ecosystems, linking endosomatic processes that are indispensable for society while forming different hierarchic levels and relations among as well as ...
Antonio Malo-Larrea   +2 more
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Urban Political Ecology in Mexico: Metabolism, conflicts, and the need for transformational pathways in the Valley of Mexico, Guadalajara, and Monterrey

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2023
This article analyzes urban socio-ecological conflicts in the Mexican metropolitan areas of the Valley of Mexico, Guadalajara and Monterrey from an Urban Political Ecology (UPE) approach.
Ana Karen Jiménez Caballero   +3 more
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A multi-criteria framework for assessing urban socio-ecological systems: The emergy nexus of the urban economy and environment

open access: yesCleaner Environmental Systems, 2022
The social and ecological impacts of urbanization require integrated management of cities and their resource metabolism for long-term sustainability and economic prosperity.
Oleksandr Galychyn   +4 more
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Karl Marx’ ecology: totalization of social metabolism

open access: yesИнтеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2023
The purpose of this article is to attempt a conceptual reconstruction of Marx’s theory of social metabolism. The author shows that every living being exists due to the exchange of substances between itself and nature (the universal metabolism of nature).
P. N. Kondrashov
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Karl Marx’ ecology: historicity of social metabolism

open access: yesИнтеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2023
The purpose of this article is to attempt a conceptual reconstruction of Marx’s ecological doctrine of the historicity of social metabolism. Based on the texts of Karl Marx and the works of other authors, using the methods of textual analysis ...
P. N. Kondrashov
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Social Metabolism and Environmental Conflicts in India [PDF]

open access: yesIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2014
This paper explains the methods for counting the energy and material flows in the economy, and gives the main results of the Material Flows for the economy of India between 1961 and 2008 as researched by Simron Singh et al (2012). Drawing on work done in
Joan Martinez-Alier   +2 more
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Development of modern urban culture within the discourse of socio-ecological metabolism conception

open access: yesVestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures], 2021
The purpose of the paper is to identify heuristic potential of socio-ecological metabolism (SEM) conception for the studying of trends in the development of modern urban culture. Modern city is considered in terms of the conception as an open socio-biotechnical system, whose changes are of a metabolic nature, so that they are carried out in four ...
Valentin P. Babintsev   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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