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  title info:
    title: Sustainable urban metabolism
  name:
    name part: Ferrão, Paulo
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Fernandez, John
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities account for enormous flows of energy and materials--inflows of goods and services and outflows of waste. Thus urban environmental management critically affects global sustainability. In this book, Paulo Ferrao and John Fernandez offer a metabolic perspective on urban sustainability, viewing the city as a metabolism, in terms of its exchanges of matter and energy. Their book provides a roadmap to the strategies and tools needed for a scientifically based framework for analyzing and promoting the sustainability of urban systems. Using the concept of urban metabolism as a unifying framework, Ferrao and Fernandez describe a systems-oriented approach that establishes useful linkages among environmental, economic, social, and technical infrastructure issues. These linkages lead to an integrated information-intensive platform that enables ecologically informed urban planning. After establishing the theoretical background and describing the diversity of contributing disciplines, the authors sample sustainability approaches and tools, offer an extended study of the urban metabolism of Lisbon, and outline the challenges and opportunities in approaching urban sustainability in both developed and developing countries.
  note: Paulo Ferrão and John E. Fernández.
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable urban development
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban ecology (Sociology)
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: URBANISM/General
  subject:
    topic: ENVIRONMENT/General
  subject:
    topic: ENGINEERING/General
  classification: HT166 .F378 2013eb
  classification: 307.1/216
  identifier: 9781461939467
  identifier: 1461939461
  identifier: 0262316951
  identifier: 9780262316958
  identifier: 9780262316941
  identifier: 0262316943
  identifier: 9780262316965
  identifier: 026231696X
  identifier: 9780262019361
  identifier: 0262019361
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 131114
    record change date: 20221121162702.4
    record identifier: in00004602652
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng