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Urban Metabolism and Sustainable Cities

Posted on: 4 Mar 2015 / Submitted by: Liuyeiae

The nature of various types of urban growth and change and the consequences for municipal consumption requires studying cities and propose policies towards a more sustainable planning of cities.This involves a spatially comprehensive and temporally broad physical accounting of resource consumption of a variety of urban centers. Material flows dynamic stock modeling is used to analyze the industrial metabolism dynamics, namely the complex interaction between resource use and waste production and recovery, in order to contribute for the definition of more integrated and sustainable resource management policies.

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