Industrial Ecology and Cities

Kennedy, Christopher

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20571-7_4

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“…Such figures are in line with the rejuvenation of metabolic studies since the 2000s, described in several UM review articles (e.g. Kennedy, 2016;Zhang et al 2015). The popularity of UM studies reflects a growing consensus in the scientific community that UM research can help address critical sustainable development issues, such as resource erosion and the impact on climate change of the growing energy demand in cities (Ferrão and Ferna´ndez, 2013).…”

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Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research

Perrotti

Stremke

2018

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Urban metabolism studies have gained momentum in recent years as a means to assess the environmental performance of cities and to point to more resource-efficient strategies for urban development. Recent literature reviews report a growing number of applications of the industrial ecology model for material flow analysis in the design of the built environment. However, applications of material flow analysis in green infrastructure development are scarce. In this article, we argue that: (i) the use of material flow analysis in green infrastructure practice can inform decision-making towards more resource-efficient urban planning; (ii) the ecosystem service concept is critical to operationalize material flow analysis for green infrastructure planning and design, and, through this, can enhance the impact of urban metabolism research on policy making and planning practice. The article draws from a systematic review of literature on urban ecosystem services and benefits provided by green infrastructure in urban regions. The review focuses on ecosystem services that can contribute to a more energy-efficient and less carbon-intensive urban metabolism. Using the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services as a baseline, we then discuss opportunities for integrating energy provision and climate regulation ecosystem services in material flow analysis. Our discussion demonstrates that the accounting of ecosystem services in material flow analysis enables expressing impacts of green infrastructure on the urban energy mix (renewable energy provision), the magnitude of energy use (mitigation of building energy demand) and the dynamics of biogeochemical processes in cities (carbon sequestration). We finally propose an expanded model for material flow analysis that illustrates a way forward to integrate the ecosystem service concept in urban metabolism models and to enable their application in green infrastructure planning and design.

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confidence: 66%

Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research

Perrotti

Stremke

2018

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…By way of broadband and through the cloud computing of an IoT that is resilient enough for the smart (micro) grids which this lays down for such a sensor-orientated, data-driven processing of information to be energetic. To be energetic in getting the renewables of a mass retrofit to manifest itself as a metabolic able to sustain the growth of an urban and regional innovation which not only champions city-districts as energy efficient-low carbon zones, but offers a number of critical insights into the status of the ecological modernisation this bring about as an adaptation to climate change (Kennedy 2016;Fachinni et al 2017;Deakin and Reid, 2018).…”

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Smart Cities: The Metrics of Future Internet-Based Developments and Renewable Energies of Urban and Regional Innovation

Deakin

Reid

Mora

2020

Journal of Urban Technology

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This paper studies smart cities as the metrics of future internet-based developments and the renewable energies of urban and regional innovation. It fills a gap that has opened up in the literature currently available on smart cities and around the metrics of future internet-based developments. That gap, which has opened up in studies of smart cities around the metrics of future internet-based developments and that relate to the informatics of the computer science, which underpin digital infrastructures, support data management platforms and set the stage for renewable energies. It achieves this by presenting the findings of a case study on future internet-based developments and accounting for how the informatics of computer science and digital infrastructures of data management platforms set the stage for renewable energies and way this energetic plays out as the renewables of an urban and regional innovation. The case study is drawn from the Hackbridge project in the London Borough of Sutton and serves to demonstrate how accounting for the metrics of future Internet-based developments does matter. Does matter in the sense which the case study serves to demonstrate that merely being able to relate the informatics of computer science to the digital infrastructures of data management platforms is not enough. Not enough because it is only in bottoming out how the informatics of computer science relate to the digital infrastructures of data management platforms as part of a material stock and flow analysis, that it becomes possible to account for the energetic of the renewables and contribution which the installation of them into buildings does to sustain the growth of an urban and regional innovation whose ecological modernisation adapts to climate change.

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“…Comprehensive studies of urban metabolism exist for a still small but growing number of cities (Kennedy, 2016;Kennedy et al, 2010). For example, Rosado, Niza and Ferrão (2014) developed an urban metabolism analyst (UMAn) model and studied material flows from 2003 to 2009 disaggregated into 28 material types, 55 economic activity categories and their spatial location for the Lisbon metropolitan area in 2014.…”

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Governing the City of Flows: How Urban Metabolism Approaches May Strengthen Accountability in Strategic Planning

Zengerling

2019

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The article aims to provide an initial insight into if and how urban metabolism perspectives and approaches may strengthen accountability in urban environmental strategic planning. It argues that many of the challenges in governing urban environmental flows successfully result from accountability gaps in strategic planning. The aim of the research is to test the assumption that urban metabolism perspectives and approaches strengthen accountability in urban environmental strategic planning. Applying a four-pillar accountability analysis to the strategic climate and resource plans of New York and Zurich, two cities which put environmental sustainability high on their political agenda, the study traces the role of urban metabolism perspectives and approaches and discusses the benefits these may have for accountable strategic planning with a focus on carbon and material flows. The interim results show on the one hand that implicit urban metabolism approaches are vital for both cities’ strategic planning and that they contribute to strengthened accountability in all four pillars of the analysis: responsibility, transparency, assessment and participation. On the other hand, the analysis highlights further potential benefits of urban metabolism perspectives and approaches in urban strategic climate and resource planning.

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Industrial Ecology and Cities

Cited by 12 publications

References 76 publications

Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research

Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research

Smart Cities: The Metrics of Future Internet-Based Developments and Renewable Energies of Urban and Regional Innovation

Governing the City of Flows: How Urban Metabolism Approaches May Strengthen Accountability in Strategic Planning

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