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Strategies of socio-ecological transition for a sustainable urban metabolism
Frontiers 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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Ecological Economics, 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 ...
Karl-Heinz Erb
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An Exploration of Capitalism's Metabolism with Nature and its Current Socio-Ecological Crisis [PDF]
Proceedings of The 3rd World Sustainability Forum, 2013 Based on a dialectical-materialist methodology transcending the traditional Cartesian dualism, this assay sets out to explore the metabolic relationship between society and nature. Starting from an abstractive level concerning all societies, irrespective of the particular form of production, we proceed to more specifically examine this relationship ...
George Liodakis
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Социологическая 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.
PLoS 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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Journal 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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Cleaner 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
Интеллект. 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
Интеллект. 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]
Indialogs: 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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