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Altered Ecological Flows Blur Boundaries in Urbanizing Watersheds

Ecology and Society, 2009
The relevance of the boundary concept to ecological processes has been recently questioned. Humans in the post-industrial era have created novel lateral transport fluxes that have not been sufficiently considered in watershed studies.
Todd R. Lookingbill, Sujay S. Kaushal, Andrew J. Elmore, Robert Gardner, Keith N. Eshleman, Robert H. Hilderbrand, Raymond P. Morgan, Walter R. Boynton, Margaret A. Palmer, William C. Dennison   +9 more
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Urban Heat Transition in Berlin: Corporate Strategies, Political Conflicts, and Just Solutions

Urban Planning, 2023
In the field of urban climate policy, heat production and demand are key sectors for achieving a sustainable city. Heat production has to shift from fossil to renewable energies, and the heat demand of most buildings has to be reduced significantly via ...
Hendrik Sander, Sören Weißermel
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Design Implications of Model-Generated Urban Data [PDF]

, 2019
Published by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.The staggering complexity of urban environment and long timescales in the causal mechanisms prevent designers
Jankovic, Ljubomir
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Sustainability Assessment of the Anthropogenic System in Panama City: Application of Biomimetic Strategies towards Regenerative Cities

Biomimetics, 2021
To understand the sustainability problem for Panama’s metropolitan area, its urban metabolism was investigated. A way to evaluate its current state was obtained by estimating a sustainable indicator based on the Green City Index.
Andrea Quintero, Marichell Zarzavilla, Nathalia Tejedor-Flores, Dafni Mora, Miguel Chen Austin   +4 more
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Circadian and Metabolic Effects of Light: Implications in Weight Homeostasis and Health [PDF]

, 2017
Daily interactions between the hypothalamic circadian clock at the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and peripheral circadian oscillators regulate physiology and metabolism to set temporal variations in homeostatic regulation.
Diego A. Golombek, Juan J. Chiesa, Leandro P. Casiraghi, Natalia Paladino, Paula García Moro, Santiago A. Plano, Santiago A. Plano   +6 more
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Operationalizing the circular city model for naples' city-port: A hybrid development strategy [PDF]

, 2020
The city-port context involves a decisive reality for the economic development of territories and nations, capable of significantly influencing the conditions of well-being and quality of life, and of making the Circular City Model (CCM) operational ...
Cerreta, M., di Girasole, E. G., Poli, G., Regalbuto, S.   +3 more
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Soundscape for urban ecological security evaluation

Basic and Applied Ecology
The security of the Earth system has been extensively discussed through the concept of planetary boundaries, which hypothesizes the Anthropocene as the crisis for pushing environmental variables beyond safe limits.
Jingyi Wang, Chunming Li, Ziyan Yao, Shenghui Cui   +3 more
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Más allá del petróleo: Una mirada al impacto de los autos eléctricos en las tres principales ciudades del Ecuador

ESTOA: Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Cuenca, 2017
El propósito de este trabajo es estudiar el impacto del cambio de vehículos privados en las tres principales ciudades de Ecuador, y evaluar si la demanda de electricidad creada podría ser satisfecha por energías renovables ubicadas dentro de los límites ...
Michael Maks Davis
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Megapolitan Political Ecology and Urban Metabolism in Southern Appalachia [PDF]

, 2014
Drawing on megapolitan geographies, urban political ecology, and urban metabolism as theoretical frameworks, this article theoretically and empirically explores megapolitan political ecology.
Gragson, T, Gustafson, JS, Heynen, N, Rice, JL, Shepherd, JM, Strother, C   +5 more
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Quantifying spatiotemporal dynamics of urban building and material metabolism by combining a random forest model and GIS-based material flow analysis

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
Understanding building metabolism is critical for guiding urban resource management and addressing challenges in urban sustainable development.
Ting Mao, Ting Mao, Ting Mao, Yupeng Liu, Yupeng Liu, Yupeng Liu, Wei-Qiang Chen, Wei-Qiang Chen, Wei-Qiang Chen, Nan Li, Nan Li, Nan Li, Nan Dong, Yao Shi   +13 more
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