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A stochastic theory of urban metabolism. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AA current tenet in the science of cities is the emergence of power-law relations between population size and a variety of urban indicators, echoing allometric scaling in living organisms akin to Kleiber’s law. However fascinating, existing scaling theories suffer from biases related to the ad-hoc definition of city boundaries and to their neglect of ...
Hendrick M, Rinaldo A, Manoli G.
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A review of the flood management: from flood control to flood resilience
Heliyon, 2022 Climate change and socioeconomic developments are increasing the frequency and severity of floods. Flood management is widely recognized as an effective way to reduce the adverse consequences, and a more resilient and sustainable flood management ...
Lihong Wang +7 more
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, 2021 AbstractUrban metabolism (UM) is fundamentally an accounting framework whose goal is to quantify the inflows, outflows, and accumulation of resources (such as materials and energy) in a city. The main goal of this chapter is to offer an introduction to UM. First, a brief history of UM is provided.
Sybil Derrible +3 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 The construction of the sponge city can effectively alleviate the problems of urban waterlogging and pollution and promote the city's sustainable development.
Meng Yang +5 more
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Riverine flood risk assessment with a combined model chain in southeastern China
Ecological Indicators, 2023 Climate change and rapid urbanization have exacerbated the occurrence and impact of floods. It is essential to carry out a quantitative flood risk assessment and manage the flood risk before a disaster occurs.
Lihong Wang +8 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Disturbances to forests are getting worse with climate change and urbanization. Assessing the functionality of forest ecosystems is challenging because it requires not only a large amount of input data but also comprehensive estimation indicator methods.
Mei Li +6 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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إطار مقترح لتصميم المدن الذکية في ضوء الثقافة، والحوکمة, والتفاعل الحيوي (الأيض) للمناطق الحضرية A Proposed Framework for the Designing Smart Cities in Light of Culture, Governance and Urban Metabolism [PDF]
Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt, 2019 لا يزال مفھوم المدينة الذکية في طور التطور ويمکنإعتباره دلالة ترويجية تجارية من قبل بعض الشرکات الکبر ى، توعدالتکنولوجيا المستخدمة في "المدن الذکية" بالخيارات و الکفاءات التييمکن أن تسمح للمدن بأن تکون "شاملة وآمنة ومرنة ومستدامة" کما ھومتضح في جدول ...
Asmaa Elshamy
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Urban political ecology in prospect and retrospect
Sub\urban, 2021 The contemporary theorization of the urban biosphere has reached something of an impasse between the perceived limitations of urban political ecology, the neo-Lefebvrian emphasis on global patterns of urbanization, and the rise of “new materialisms ...
Matthew Gandy
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Making it Concrete: Analysing the Role of Concrete Plants’ Locations for Circular City Policy Goals
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2021 Increasingly, space for remanufacturing is seen as the most valuable resource to achieve circular economy (CE) policy goals, in particular for cities. However, in many cities, industrial urban areas are increasingly subject of – mostly circular designed -
Karel B.J. Van den Berghe +1 more
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