Urban energy systems within the transition to sustainable development. A research agenda for urban metabolism

Carreón, Jesús Rosales; Worrell, Ernst

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.08.004

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“…Its inclusion of all types of resources may hinder its ability to make practical and spatially explicit recommendations for cities. This paper is of the similar view with Carréon and Worrell [20] that in order to progress toward a sustainable energy system, an important starting point is to understand the flows of energy through the city. Approaching a sustainable energy system also means understanding how people access and use energy differently in the city, to ensure access to safe, reliable, and modern energy sources to all citizens.…”

Section: Urban Energy Metabolism For Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 80%

“…In 1883, Marx first imagined the notion that a society as a whole has a resource metabolism, in which nature is transformed as needed to provide society with the necessary commodities [11,20,21]. Some argue the first explicit mention of the term 'urban metabolism' was made in 1965 by Wolman, who presented the metabolism of a hypothetical American city to demonstrate the metabolic needs of a city, such as the materials the city's inhabitants need to sustain their home, work and leisure lives [8,16,20,22]. Meanwhile, others believe that Theodor Weyl pioneered the term in 1894, in his discussion of food consumption, comparing nutrient discharge with the food intake into the city of Berlin [23].…”

Section: Urban Energy Metabolism For Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Zhang et al [26] disaggregate the system into five phases: namely energy exploitation, energy transformation, industry, living, and recovery. Carreón and Worrell [20] indicate three phases of energy system, namely (i) energy sources, which are connected by (ii) energy carriers to meet (iii) the city's energy demand. Both studies emphasize that energy flows from one phase to the next.…”

Section: The Urban Energy Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Conceptualizing Household Energy Metabolism: A Methodological Contribution

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Urban metabolism assessments enable the quantification of resource flows, which is useful for finding intervention points for sustainability. At a household level, energy metabolism assessments can reveal intervention points to reshape household energy consumption and inform decision-makers about a more sustainable urban energy system. However, a gap in the current urban metabolism research reveals that existing household energy consumption studies focus on outflows in the form of greenhouse gas emissions, and have been mostly undertaken at the city or national level. To address this gap, this study developed a method to assess household energy metabolism focusing on direct energy inflows in the form of carriers, and through-flows in the form of services, to identify intervention points for sustainability. Then, this method was applied to assess the energy metabolism of different households in Cape Town, South Africa, as categorized by income groups. The study argued that the developed method is useful for undertaking bottom–up household energy metabolic assessments in both formal and informal city settings in which more than one energy carrier is used. In cities where only national or city-level data exists, it provides a method for understanding how different households consume different energy carriers differently.

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Section: Urban Energy Metabolism For Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Urban Energy Metabolism For Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Urban Energy Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Blok and Nieuwlaar (2017) defined public utility services as "a result of human activity obtained through the use of energy and meeting a human need". For instance, the use of electricity allows persons to obtain illumination to read or to practice sport; the use of heating allow for a comfortable indoor climate; and the use of gas provides appropriate cooking temperatures to obtain necessary nutrients (Rosales Carreón & Worrell, 2018). Furthermore, drinking water scarcity is one of the main challenges in the world.…”

Section: Social Security Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

Yuan

Zhang

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Sustainable Development

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Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been increasingly adopted in China. Sustainability of PPPs has become a priority for a sustainable development of PPPs. Most prior studies focus on sustainable implementation of PPP projects. Few research efforts have been done to examine the impacts of PPPs to sustainability from an external perspective and a more macro geographical scale. Meanwhile, the social aspect of the sustainability of PPPs has not been widely studied. Therefore, this study aims to propose a social sustainability contribution evaluation system (SSCES) for PPPs to evaluate PPPs' contribution to regional social sustainability at the institutional level. An indicator system of the SSCES for PPPs was developed, which included 8 requirements for socially sustainable development and 33 social sustainability indicators. The weights of indicators were determined by using the analytic hierarchy process method. The results indicate that, in the context of China, promoting peopleoriented urbanization in PPPs can help enhance regional social sustainability. This study provides a useful evaluation tool for various stakeholders to evaluate the sustainability of PPPs from an institutional level, especially for local governments to review current PPP polices and make improvements.

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“…Quadro 6 -Enredos, argumentos e problemas associados ao PEU e ao SEU, encontrados durante a RS AND POLONARA, 2012;CHEN and CHEN, 2015;CIPRIANO et al, 2017;COLLAÇO AND BERMANN, 2017;COLLAÇO et al, 2019;CORRADO et al, 2015;DI LEO AND SALVIA, 2017;FARZANEH et al, 2014;DOLL;PUPPIM DE OLIVEIRA, 2016;FICHERA et al, 2016;GREGÓRIO AND SEIXAS, 2017;HAKE et al, 2016;HAWKEY et al, 2013;HUKKALAINEN (NÉE SEPPONEN) et al, 2017;JIN et al, 2016;KEIRSTEAD et al, 2012B, 2012A;KEIRSTEAD and CALDERON, 2012;KURIYAN and SHAH, 2017;LANTSBERG et al, 2005;MANFREN et al, 2011;MARINS, 2014;MAX BITTEL et al, 2017;MENDES et al, 2011;MORLET and KEIRSTEAD, 2013;MORVAJ et al, 2016;NASTASI and DI MATTEO, 2016;NIEMI et al, 2012;OLDENBERG et al, 2015;OUHAJJOU et al, 2017;PASIMENI et al, 2014;PERERA et al, 2018;ROSALES CARREÓN and WORRELL, 2018A;RUPARATHNA et al, 2017;TORABI MOGHADAM et al, 2017;UNTERNAHRER et al, 2017;XU et al, 2015;…”

Section: Os Problemas E As Respostas Científicas Do Planejamento Enermentioning

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Sinergias entre o planejamento energético e o planejamento urbano: estudo de caso do sistema de energia urbano da megacidade de São Paulo

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Agradeço àqueles que de várias formas contribuíram para a realização da presente pesquisa. Quero aqui expressar minha gratidão a algumas dessas pessoas. Ao meu querido orientador Célio Bermann, cuja parceria já dura seis anos. Obrigada por me aconselhar e acreditar no meu potencial, por me ajudar e sempre encontrar formas de me ensinar, além de demonstrar apoio e suporte. À CAPES, pelo auxílio financeiro concedido durante todo o desenvolvimento desta tese e, principalmente, pela concessão da bolsa PDSE durante um ano, possibilitando o intercâmbio de estudos. Espero que todas e todos tenham essa oportunidade, já que considero essa política pública essencial para a formação de bons pesquisadores. Da mesma forma, agradeço ao programa ERASMUS MUNDUS PLUS e também a Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), nº processo 2015/03804-9. À Professora Sonia Seger, por tudo que representa e desperta, por acreditar na pesquisa, por se esforçar pela educação. Também não posso deixar de agradecer imensamente à Professora Júlia Seixas, por me aceitar em seu grupo de pesquisa, e à Professora Sofia Simões, pela dedicação, respeito, auxílio, parceria, disposição e atenção dedicados a mim e à minha pesquisa; sua atuação teve importância determinante na lapidação deste trabalho. Aos companheiros de Academia Teresa Brás, Luís Dias e Juliana Barbosa; a sua acolhida, trocas, suporte, atenção e respeito me foram essenciais. Ao meu crítico e revisor número um Henrique Kefalás, por sempre esperar de mim o melhor e me cobrar por isso. À Thaís Martins pela caminhada juntas. À minha mãe e ao meu pai, pelo incentivo, exemplo, conforto, amor e carinho. Ao PPGE e ao IEE, pela oportunidade de realização do curso de doutorado e pela infraestrutura oferecida. À secretaria e às funcionárias da Biblioteca Prof. Fonseca Telles, pela paciência e pelo auxílio em todos os momentos em que foram solicitadas.

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Urban energy systems within the transition to sustainable development. A research agenda for urban metabolism

Cited by 103 publications

References 53 publications

Conceptualizing Household Energy Metabolism: A Methodological Contribution

Conceptualizing Household Energy Metabolism: A Methodological Contribution

Evaluating the regional social sustainability contribution of public‐private partnerships in China: The development of an indicator system

Sinergias entre o planejamento energético e o planejamento urbano: estudo de caso do sistema de energia urbano da megacidade de São Paulo

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