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Urban metabolism: a review in the UK context. Future of cities: working paper
Publication Year
2015
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Explores issues of urban metabolism i.e. energy and material use in cities and the implications for environmental sustainability, both now and in the future. Covers: describing, measuring and planning urban metabolism; infrastructure and the built environment in terms of physical capital and its effect on urban metabolism; material and energy flows with respect to consumption and management of waste; how cities have developed and how that might change in the future; and using urban metabolism for strategically advancing environmental sustainability.
Document History
Foresight Future of Cities Project. Dated September 2015.
Author
Clift, R. et al
Publisher Information
Government Office for Science
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