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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.
Francesco Gonella +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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Spatial justice and urban metabolism in arid cities: a comparative analysis with Amsterdam [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUrban metabolism (UM) frameworks have traditionally prioritized technical efficiency metrics, often overlooking the socio-spatial distribution of metabolic benefits and burdens [1].
Anas Tuffaha, Chenyu Du, Ágnes Sallay
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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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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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Development of modern urban culture within the discourse of socio-ecological metabolism conception
Vestnik 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
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