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| Publisher | Routledge |
| ISBN 13 | 9780415835114 |
| Book Subtitle | A Tool For Urban Planning |
| Book Description | Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions. Urban metabolism considers a city as a system, and distinguishes between energy and material flows as its components. Based on research from the BRIDGE project, this book deals with how the urban surface exchanges and transforms energy, water, carbon and pollutants in cities. This book also introduces a new method for evaluating how planning alternatives can modify the physical flows of urban metabolism components and how environmental and socioeconomic components interact. |
| About the Author | Nektarios Chrysoulakisis a Researcher Director at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas in Herakleion, Greece. He holds a BSc in Physics, a MSc in Environmental Physics and PhD in Remote Sensing from the University of Athens. He has been involved in R&D projects funded from organizations such as the European Union, the European Space Agency and the Ministries of Environment, Development, Culture and Education. Eduardo Anselmo de Castro has a degree in Civil Engineering, an MSc in Local Geography, Local and Regional Planning and a PhD in Regional Economics. He is Associate Professor in the University of Aveiro, where he lectures courses of Regional Economics and Planning, and Social and Economic Analysis. Eddy J. Moorsis Head of the research group Climate Change and Adaptive Land and Water Management of Alterra-Wageningen University and Research Center, the Netherlands. The group focuses on developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life within sustainable boundaries. Before coming to Alterra, Moors worked for Wageningen University, the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands and in Africa and the Caribbean for the World Meteorological Organization. His background is in hydro-meteorology. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Eduardo Anselmo de Castro, Eddy J. Moors |
| Editor | Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Eduardo Anselmo de Castro, Eddy J. Moors |
| Edition Number | 1 |
| Publication Date | 41918 |
| Number of Pages | 240 |
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