• Anthropogenic metabolism, also referred to as metabolism of the anthroposphere, is a term used in industrial ecology, material flow analysis, and waste management to describe the material and energy turnover of human society. (wikipedia.org)
  • A select number of abstracts will be recommended for a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology . (isie2023netherlands.nl)
  • This broadening of the vision that is inherent to political ecology and its materialism seems to go hand in hand with a certain urban pessimism. (barcelona.cat)
  • He takes an integrative approach to analysis at the city level: urban metabolism, urban resilience, industrial ecology, climate adaptation, low-carbon cities, and assessing urban strategy. (liveablecities.org.au)
  • The concept of metabolism takes root in biology and ecology as a systematic way to account for material flows in organisms and ecosystems. (oxfordre.com)
  • ALBERTI, M. (2008): Advances in Urban Ecology: Integrating Humans and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems. (investigacionesgeograficas.com)
  • A list with pre-approved specialisation courses, relevant for the field of Industrial Ecology, can be found on the general Industrial Ecology Brightspace page. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • When choosing Industrial Ecology relevant specialisation courses from this list, only two courses from the cluster Entrepreneurship, one course from the cluster Organisation and Management and one course from the cluster Serious Games can be chosen. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • As part of the 30 EC meant for specialisation courses relevant for the field of Industrial Ecology, students have to choose at least one course from a list of restricted electives on methods for analysing physical processes and one course from a list of restricted electives on methods for analysing social processes. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • For more rules and regulations concerning the Specialisation Modules, see the Implementation Regulations on the general Industrial Ecology Brightspace page. (universiteitleiden.nl)
  • Before joining City University of Hong Kong, he worked in National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, and Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Netherlands, in the field of industrial ecology, circular economy and low-carbon & eco-city planning. (is4ie.org)
  • His research focus to apply principles of Industrial Ecology to fight to the challenges of developing sustainable, smart and low-carbon cities, with focuses on the sustainability science & policies, environmental system analysis, and policies design under the theme of urban sustainability. (is4ie.org)
  • This article evaluates, from an industrial ecology (IE) perspective, the energy performance of the services inside an urban system and determines their global environmental impact. (metabolismofcities.org)
  • Anthropogenic metabolism can be seen as synonymous to social or socioeconomic metabolism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Material flow analysis encompasses different methods: industrial and urban metabolism, input-output analysis, economy-wide material flow accounting, socioeconomic metabolism, and more recently material flow cost accounting. (oxfordre.com)
  • Portugal's 7th National Communication (2017) states that the most significant emitting sectors as of 2015 were energy (70%), industrial processes and product uses (11%), agriculture (10%), and waste. (mecce.ca)
  • With the number of people living in urban areas and mega-cities on the rise 11 , actions taken in these areas become increasingly important to sustainability. (nature.com)
  • The project will create theoretical foundations for the urban symbiosis concept, as well as sustainability data and practical decision-making tools, necessitating the need for an inter- and transdisciplinary research approach. (hanken.fi)
  • Weighing the Importance of Urban Built Environment Stocks for Sustainability. (is4ie.org)
  • Knowledge about the characteristics and driving forces of material flows in urban areas is crucial, as the pathways towards sustainability depend on local conditions. (chalmers.se)
  • And so far, the finest accomplishments in urban sustainability often engage in an old colonial trick: outsourcing ecological debt. (barcelona.cat)
  • My research topics include environmental system analysis (e.g., life cycle assessment, urban metabolism approach, input-output model and their integration), sustainability indicators/policies, big data and spatial planning tools, and their applications in eco-industrial development, as well as sustainable, low-carbon and smart cities planning. (is4ie.org)
  • The cultural sector needs to understand how its own metabolism is implicated in the wider crisis of sustainability. (resetartsandculture.com)
  • It suggests an urban symbiosis logic as a solution to sustainable resource use and preserving CRMs' value during their lifecycle. (hanken.fi)
  • Urban symbiosis emphasises the disruptive value adding collaborative models, and resource dependencies between businesses, organisations and consumers within cities. (hanken.fi)
  • What are the actions, following an urban symbiosis logic, that can enable cities to accelerate the sustainable and circular governance of CRMs? (hanken.fi)
  • The project also studies how the local Urban Symbiosis models and global supply chains interact and how the national actors can influence the global supply chains to increase the circularity of CRMs. (hanken.fi)
  • Understanding the paradox of interplay and tensions between different levels is crucial as even though Urban Symbiosis is local, the related supply chains are global. (hanken.fi)
  • When the coronavirus pandemic hit India around March 2020, it began a great urban unravelling. (socialtextjournal.org)
  • Efforts to address climate change in Portugal can be seen in cities such as Lisbon, which won the European Green Capital Award for 2020 for cities that institute efforts to improve environment-friendly initiatives and urban living. (mecce.ca)
  • The results indicated the influence of domestic and industrial effluents on detoxification metabolism and oxidative stress. (bvsalud.org)
  • Water pollution is caused when water bodies such as rivers, lakes, oceans, groundwater , and aquifers get contaminated with industrial and agricultural effluents. (pinakin.co.in)
  • Industrial effluents. (pinakin.co.in)
  • Apart from industrial effluents and untreated sewage, other forms of unwanted materials are dumped into various water bodies. (pinakin.co.in)
  • It emerges from the application of systems thinking to the industrial and other man-made activities and it is a central concept of sustainable development. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sustainable development is closely linked to the design of a sustainable anthropogenic metabolism, which will entail substantial changes in the energy and material turnover of the different human activities. (wikipedia.org)
  • By adopting a 'circular' supply chains concept, the project seeks to incorporate notions of closed-loop supply chains and sustainable supply chain management to support the organizational collaborations in urban business ecosystems. (hanken.fi)
  • A novel framework for characterizing cities metabolism is provided using Urban Material Flow Accounting indicators as the basis. (chalmers.se)
  • For Luke, the unique feature of commerce today is the globalized nature of it all, quoting Beck's statement that "everyday industrial metabolisms of urban life in global cities are denaturing the prehistoric equilibria of the Earth's ecologies. (heidichronicles.net)
  • Roy sees formalization efforts as in effect legitimizing the exclusion of the least among the world's urban and nearly-urban populations, especially as global cities reach beyond their borders over and over again. (heidichronicles.net)
  • In this panorama, where main focus is on agriculture and large scales, cities and their role on water, energy and food management have been neglected, which is quite bizarre considering the close connection between cities development and resources and the huge amount of energy and materials needed to sustain cities metabolism. (aesop-planning.eu)
  • Developing of cities have been strongly linked to local resource availability for centuries, but this relationship between potential urban settings development and amount of resources available on site has weakened due to a series of events such as industrial revolution, green revolution, technological innovation and globalization (to mention most recent examples). (aesop-planning.eu)
  • Instead, agro-industrial by-products such as flour mill and oil extracting factories by-products have been widely used as energy and protein supplements. (cipav.org.co)
  • That system comprises a web of processes, across a total of five industrial sectors: water, forestry, food, energy and waste management. (cfgnet.org)
  • Advancements in computational mechanics via Finite-Element-Methods have been pursued for Engineering Procurements Construction companies to accelerate their delivery of industrial projects. (fnr.lu)
  • SWH is the process of extracting raw municipal sewage from the sewer and locally treating this to provide fit-for-purpose water in a dense urban environment while treatment. (tudelft.nl)
  • Urban areas are now responsible for most of the consumption of the world's resources, including about 75% of global primary energy 5 and 76% of wood used 6 , 7 , as well as associated emissions and waste generation 8 . (nature.com)
  • In fact, global urban material consumption is projected to grow faster than the global urban population reaching approximately 90 billion tons by 2050, an increase of 116% in global urban material consumption over the period between 2010 and 2050 9 . (nature.com)
  • The recycling of urban mines, which can effectively reduce waste generation, resources and energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emission, is an important way to implement circular economic policies and achieve carbon neutrality goals. (umlab.team)
  • Obesity occurs when energy intake from food and drink consumption is greater than energy expenditure through the body's metabolism and physical activity over a prolonged period, resulting in the accumulation of excess body fat. (debategraph.org)
  • The concept of the urban metabolism encourages the reader to think a bit differently about the balance of consumption in their immediate environment. (resetartsandculture.com)
  • He obtained his B.E. in Environmental engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and Ph.D. in Urban Environmental Studies from Nagoya University, Japan. (is4ie.org)
  • Dr. Dong Liang obtained his B.E. in Environmental engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and Ph.D. in Urban Environmental Studies from Nagoya University, Japan. (edu.hk)
  • The effects of concentrations of fine particulate matter on urban populations have been gaining attention because fine particulate matter exposes the urban populace to health risks such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. (researchhunt.com)
  • This is the result of dumping garbage and toxic chemicals by industrial and commercial establishments. (pinakin.co.in)
  • When human illness results from an unintentional or intentional release of a toxin (chemicals produced by metabolism in an organism [e.g., ricin]) or a toxicant (natural or synthetic chemicals not metabolically produced by an organism [e.g., nerve agents]) into the environment, uniform reporting is necessary to direct appropriate resources, assess the extent of morbidity and mortality, track poisoned persons, and monitor response to intervention. (cdc.gov)
  • Toxins are chemicals that are produced by organisms as a result of cellular metabolism (e.g., marine toxins such as saxitoxin or plant toxins such as ricin). (cdc.gov)
  • Toxicants are synthetic (i.e., manufactured) or naturally found chemicals that are not produced by organisms as a result of cellular metabolism (e.g., nerve agents or arsenic). (cdc.gov)
  • But the end of the industrial fossil matrix, which will happen due to a geological imperative throughout the first half of this century, and which we must politically speed up in the next decade to avoid a climatically uninhabitable world, once again confronts the modern city with what Mumford called "the problem of quantity": how to transmute "physical mass into psychic energy" so as not to give into gigantism. (barcelona.cat)
  • He was a contributing author to the Urban Chapter of the Global Energy Assessment and has advised UN Environment on resource efficiency in the Asia-Pacific region. (liveablecities.org.au)
  • He also actively engaged in providing broad academic services, like consulting to UN-ESCAP, Energy Foundation and many local stakeholders of Industrial and Urban planning, to forward circular, eco and low-carbon urban and regional transition in EU, Asia-Pacific and globe. (is4ie.org)
  • This set of developments have enabled the development of larger urban areas that depend less and less on the local availability of resources such as water, energy and food. (aesop-planning.eu)
  • And the large changes are increasingly so well documented, not only in terms of the scientific dat a but also in terms of what we see around ourselves, in terms of deforestation, overfishing, overwhelming use of unsustainable fossil energy sources, and the expansion of many times unsustainable urban developments . (hypotheses.org)
  • We were struck by Scott's account of 'urban metabolism', a graphic imagining of the throughput of materials, energy, and finance through a quiet suburban street. (resetartsandculture.com)
  • This research has investigated how Sewer Water Harvesting (SWH) can be applied to provide a climate-proof fresh water source to support Urban Green Spaces (UGS) in Amsterdam. (tudelft.nl)
  • Water bodies in the vicinity of urban areas are extremely polluted. (pinakin.co.in)
  • Workers in industries that use these agents may have occupational exposure, whereas other individuals may have environmental exposures if they live near industrial installations and/or have contact with contaminated water, soil, air, or food. (medscape.com)
  • ALBERTI, M. (1999): "Modeling the urban ecosystem: a conceptual framework", Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 26(4), pp. 605-630. (investigacionesgeograficas.com)
  • Dr Simone Ancellotti is a Postdoc whose project is funded in the framework of an Industrial Fellowship between ASETS.LUX Sàrl and the University of Luxembourg. (fnr.lu)
  • towards more restorative and regenerative industrial systems. (ekodenge.com)
  • Currently, Urban Metabolism research focuses on the analysis of trends and transitions in different stages of city development, on developing classification systems and identification of metabolism profiles for urban areas. (chalmers.se)
  • In his talk, Scott drew on his book, to introduce concepts of industrial metabolism, adaptive cycles and panarchy into the mix, using systems theory and movement history to provoke a conversation about how the arts can take a central role in the emerging global network of social movements. (resetartsandculture.com)
  • Because the urban phenomenon's connection with the climate emergency or the depletion of basic resources for industrial metabolisms extends far beyond the city understood on the basis of the immediate experience that we have of it. (barcelona.cat)
  • Zhou [10] documented the presence of trace metals, which have adverse health implications, in atmospheric fine particles in an industrial city in China. (researchhunt.com)
  • Anthros for us humans, 7 billion people multiplied by our industrial metabolism today constitute a force of change , which is in pace and magnitude larger than the geological forces of change that has been pushing the planet in and out of ice ages over the geological history of Earth. (hypotheses.org)
  • Poultry litter, to this effect, is one of the non-conventional feed resources available in urban and peri-urban areas where improved dairy genotypes dominate. (cipav.org.co)
  • The World Bank (2021) indicates that Portugal is home to around 10.3 million people, of which 65.2% live in urban areas. (mecce.ca)
  • Exploring an urban perspective on the nexus is even more important considering that more than a half of the global population is living now in urban areas and this percentage is bound to increase in the coming decades (UNPD, 2011). (aesop-planning.eu)
  • This has the objective of making clearer which are the nexus aspects that more likely fall within urban areas, which is the domain of urban policies and urban planning. (aesop-planning.eu)
  • In the United Kingdom during the 17th century, an estimated 2-8% of deaths in urban areas were attributed to rickets, which became known as the "English disease. (medscape.com)
  • Every year more than 70 % mainly in adult women from urban areas in of newly diagnosed patients are older than the fourth decade of life5. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hanken's research focuses on circular supply chains- how linear industrial supply chains need to change to support more efficient CRM use and circulation. (hanken.fi)
  • The urban system under study is the Montjuïc urban park in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, which can be considered a services system. (metabolismofcities.org)
  • The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the American Congress of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) also publish standards for use in occupational settings in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • Keynote speech: Regional eco-industrial development supports new era ecological civilization construction. (edu.hk)
  • It sounds challenging to think of economic development in a large urban area having today to relate to the complex changes in the Earth system, but that is the reality. (hypotheses.org)
  • By taking a close look at the carbon cycle Peng, Thomas and Tian have discovered that, "It is recognized that human activities, such as fossil fuel burning, land-use change, and forest harvesting at a large scale, have resulted in the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since the onset of the industrial revolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen by ~45 percent above pre-Industrial Revolution levels, mainly through combustion, over a few decades, of a geological carbon-store that took many millions of years to accumulate. (oxfordre.com)
  • During the Industrial Revolution, rickets appeared in epidemic form in temperate zones where the pollution from factories blocked the sun's ultraviolet rays. (medscape.com)
  • Most of the existing studies on the increase in air temperature (AT) in industrial neighborhoods (UIs) approach the subject from the analysis of the land surface temperature (LST). (mdpi.com)
  • [1] To put it in the form of a headline, the urban phenomenon is the primary catalyst behind the socio-ecological crisis. (barcelona.cat)
  • These metabolic nodes centralize and redistribute material flows at different scales and are thus pivotal in determining the nature of a place's metabolism. (metropolitics.org)
  • The political economy of the industrial transformation of the United Kingdom. (is4ie.org)
  • However, the deficiency of research on estimation of quantity, type, spatio-temporal dynamics, and carbon emission reduction for recycling of urban mines makes the continuous promotion of China's urban mines exploit strategy lack of scientific support. (umlab.team)
  • With the goal of remedying the fragmented process of industrial plant engineering, public research and industry have joined forces: An interdisciplinary engineering system that has been performed using the platform with Simone Ancellotti, along with his and the ASETS-LUX product team contribution, have made significant progress. (fnr.lu)
  • The results of this project will help decision-making for the realization of urban mines exploitation and carbon neutrality in China. (umlab.team)
  • This course covers the selection of modern industrial explosives, their history, physical properties, and safe handling, including an introduction to the theory of detonation, and rock response. (utoronto.ca)
  • After World War II, the industrial expansion of Japan as a manufacturing superpower was deemed an economic miracle. (glitch.at)
  • There Marx referred to "the squandering of the vitality of the soil" by large-scale capitalist enterprise, generating "an irreparable rift in the interdependent process of social metabolism, a metabolism prescribed by the natural laws of life itself. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In both instances, Marx's notion of the robbery of the soil is intrinsically connected to the rift in the metabolism between human beings and the earth. (monthlyreview.org)
  • [3] There are numerous authors of political environmentalism who uphold this thesis of the infeasibility of the urban civilisation in a post-fossil fuel world. (barcelona.cat)
  • This is the fundamental prospective thesis of a book like En la espiral de la energía , by the late activist Ramón Fernández Durán and Luis González Reyes (Libros en Acción, 2014). (barcelona.cat)
  • Metabolism was a fundamental concept of natural science, and Liebig was one of its nineteenth-century pioneers. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Esta contribución intenta examinar primero cómo diferentes perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas de la geografía y las ciencias ambientales exploran los flujos de agua en sus dimensiones física y social en la ciudad, así como sus modificaciones, en respuesta a las complejidades y desafíos urbanos emergentes. (investigacionesgeograficas.com)
  • En la segunda parte, se presta atención a las zonas urbanas costeras del Mediterráneo como laboratorios candidatos de análisis en el marco de ecología política urbana, ya que están sujetas a rápidos procesos de cambio social y ambiental en el que el agua juega un papel fundamental. (investigacionesgeograficas.com)
  • 3) identify the resource management and recycling strategies, assess the carbon emission reduction potential and carbon neutrality effects in recycling and re-production of urban mines. (umlab.team)
  • Gothenburg has the most resource intensive metabolism. (chalmers.se)
  • Mega-urban regions (MURs) are important consumers or traders of resources from, or producers of wastes destined for, the global hinterlands. (nature.com)
  • Despite its sci-fi aesthetic, High Tech, like Metabolism, did not last very long as its projects were notoriously expensive. (glitch.at)