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Water and the political ecology of urban metabolism: the case of Mexico City

Journal of Political Ecology, 2015
Today, 52% of the world's population live in urban areas and this number is expected to rise to 64-69% by 2050. Cities consume most of the world's energy and materials, and are responsible of about three quarters of direct and indirect GHG emissions ...
Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos
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Analyse socio-scientifique de la qualité agro-environnementale et sanitaire des sols urbains pour promouvoir la transition agro-écologique

VertigO, 2018
The (peri)urban market gardening areas are developing globally to meet the objectives of the food security of cities. In Toulouse (France), a booming metropolis, the market gardening plain at Blagnac (31) called "15 Sols" is the subject of an ...
Roxanne Calais, Camille Dumat, Rémi Quinet, Marc Miette, Eva Schreck   +4 more
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Por una agricultura sostenible. Reflexiones desde la economía ecológica y la historia ambiental

Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, 2013
Inés Marco Lafuente es economista por la Universidad de Barcelona y ha realizado un máster en Historia Económica en esa misma universidad. Actualmente es investigadora y se encuentra realizando el doctorado en el Departamento de Historia e ...
Inés Marco Lafuente
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Renewal of city-countryside relations and socio-ecological transition : what are perspectives for metabolism ?

, 2021
Les conséquences du régime socio-écologique industriel sur le climat et la biosphère sont connus depuis de nombreuses années et ont été rappelées au cours de l’été 2021 au sein du dernier rapport du Groupe Intergouvernemental d’Experts sur le Climat (GIEC).
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THE RECONFIGURATION OF THE CULTURE COMMONS, THE STUDY THROUGH SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL METABOLISM

, 2019
The cultural commons have been subjected to a metabolic fracture due to their process of transformation, therefore, the coexistence with the commons is being fragmented, privileging the value of change over the values of use for the accumulation. The objective of this article is to develop a theoretical model that allows explaining the process of ...
González Ramos, María del Pilar, Zizumbo Villarreal, Lilia, Palafox Muñoz, Alejandro, Cruz Coria, Erika   +3 more
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Linking sociometabolic stress to strong sustainability: a framework for assessing societal transformations

Global Sustainability
Non-technical summary Sustainability transformations necessitate systemic changes that simultaneously respect planetary boundaries and promote social equity.
Jarkko Levänen, Lassi Linnanen, Kevin Dillman, Jukka Heinonen   +3 more
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Variation in Soil Microbial Carbon Utilization Patterns Along a Forest Successional Series in a Degraded Wetland of the Sanjiang Plain

Diversity
The Sanjiang Plain hosts the largest freshwater wetland in Northeastern China and plays a critical role in regional climate stability. However, climate change and human activities have degraded the wetland, forming a successional gradient from the ...
Zhaorui Liu, Wenmiao Pu, Kaiquan Zhang, Rongze Luo, Xin Sui, Mai-He Li   +5 more
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The operational municipal solid waste management policy focuses on identifying waste generation behavior across multiple levels in mega cities, a case study

Discover Sustainability
The results of an effort to create a thorough framework that efficiently arranges and combines quantitative data characterizing the performance of Urban Waste Management Systems (UWMS) across a range of scales and dimensions are presented in this study ...
Hamed Alimoradiyan, Ahmad Hajinezhad, Hossein Yousefi, Mario Giampietro   +3 more
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Unlocking resilience and sustainability with earth-based materials: a principled framework for urban transformation

Frontiers in Built Environment
This paper introduces a transformative “living” hypothesis in architecture and engineering, proposing a paradigm shift from conventional design to regenerative, ecologically interconnected resilient systems.
Michael Bühler, Michael Bühler, Pia Hollenbach, Pia Hollenbach, Lothar Köhler, Rachel Armstrong   +5 more
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River basins as socio-ecological systems: linking levels of societal and ecosystem metabolism in a Mediterranean watershed

, 2015
River basin modeling under complexity requires analytical frameworks capable of dealing with the multiple scales and dimensions of environmental problems as well as uncertainty in the evolution of social systems. Conceptual and methodological developments can now be framed using the wide socio-eco-hydrological approach. We add hierarchy theory into the
Cabello Villarejo, Violeta, Willaarts, Barbara A., Aguilar Alba, Mónica, Moral Ituarte, Leandro del   +3 more
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