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Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe (SUME)

Description: Objective: Societies in their urban (and also non-urban) segments, are extracting materials and energy from their natural environment, processing these flows, eventually accumulating portions of them as stocks and, in the end, deleting them into the environment as wastes, emissions or deliberate discharges. Urban settlements cities are a specific type of stocks in the metabolism of societies, and the way these cities are being built and operated has a substantial influence on the quantities and qualities of material and energy flows needed to sustain their existence. In SUME, the urban metabolism shall be understood as a metaphor for our societies way of dealing with its natural environment. With global climate change, limited resources and sources of energy, the question of how a healthy level of metabolic exchange with the environment can be achieved is gaining a dramatic new actuality. It is the question of how existing urban areas shall be transformed and new cities or expansions should be planned to be researched in SUME with a truly comprehensive approach.

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Origins: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT

Tags: Strömungsenergie ? Abfallbehandlung ? Material ? Abfluss ? Innenstadt ? Stadtplanung ? Globale Erwärmung ? Nicht erneuerbarer Rohstoff ? Stadtentwicklungspolitik ? Emission ? Energie ? Energiebilanz ? Nicht erneuerbare Ressource ? Wirkungsanalyse ? Stadt ? Wertermittlung ? Europa ? Rohstoffreserve ? Bedarf ? Forschung ? Klima ? Lagerung ? Urbaner Raum ? Stoffwechsel ? Umwelt ? Globale Aspekte ? FP7-ENVIRONMENT ? Fluss [Bewegung] ? Urban metabolism ? material and energy flows ? urban forms ? urban renewal/restructuring ?

License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0

Language: Englisch/English

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Time ranges: 2009-04-01 - 2011-10-31

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