ENERGY AND MATERIAL FLOW THROUGH THE URBAN ECOSYSTEM

By Ethan H. Decker, Scott Elliott, F. Smith, D. Blake, F. Rowland. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Metabolism (2012, positive): “One such concept is urban metabolism, referring to the exchange processes whereby cities transform raw materials, energy, and water into the built environment, human biomass, and waste (Decker et al. 2000).”
Considering the energy, water and food nexus: Towards an integrated modelling approach (2011, background): “…from oil imports, to manage its limited water resources (McCornick et al., 2008).23 25 On the issue of conceptual models in an urban setting, Decker et al. (2000) note, ‘‘Although socioeconomic perspectives are commonly used to analyse urban Desalinisation: As an example, many island…”
A 40-year review of food–energy–water nexus literature and its application to the urban scale (2019, background): “Importantly, the modeling focus was limited to anthropogenic sources, with only a few authors discussing the influence of natural processes (e.g. hydrological systems) (Decker et al 2000, Baccini andBrunner 2001, Kennedy et al 2011).”
The study of urban metabolism and its applications to urban planning and design. (2011, background): “…determining material flows, even with the omission of important inputs such as electricity, infrastructure materials, and other durable goods, helped focus attention on system-wide impacts of the consumption of goods and the generation of wastes within the urban environment (Decker et al., 2000).”
Urban energy consumption: Different insights from energy flow analysis, input–output analysis and ecological network analysis (2015, background): “EFA is also capable of tracking different types of fuels used by the city and urban sectors, which is important for understanding the energy infrastructure of cities [44,45].”
A distinct urban biogeochemistry? (2006, background): “... units), and yield information about whether a city is a source (inputO output) or sink (input!output) for the material and how the material is transformed by urban activities (Box 1). Carbon mass balance shows that cities are major sources of CO2 and large contributors to its global enrichment i”
Urban versus conventional agriculture, taxonomy of resource profiles: a review (2016, background): “2014) and New York City (City 233 of New York 2014), though policy-makers in the latter have actively fought against implementing 234 household organic waste collection due to perceived costs (Decker et al. 2000).”