Changes of human time and land use pattern in one mega city's urban metabolism: a multi-scale integrated analysis of Shanghai

Lu, Yangsiyu; Geng, Yong; Qian, Yiying; Han, Wenyi; McDowall, Will; Bleischwitz, Raimund

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.174

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“…Zhang, et al [73] Energy and carbon dioxide Chen and Chen [74] Carbon dioxide Huang and Chen [76] Emergy (seJ) Lu, et al [77] Human time and Land Use Tan, et al [78] Relationship indicators Wang, et al [79] Energy and labour Sun, et al [80] Emergy (seJ)…”

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“…Twelve of the case studies were not related to ES assessment. Instead, these 12 case studies calculated indices or indicators relating to network relationships [25,78], human activity [77,81] and emergy indicators [76,80,82,84]. These types of UM performance index are useful insofar as they reveal the dominant socio-economic patterns relating to material and energy flows, but we did not find these indices suitable for assessing the supply of any ES.…”

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“…We identified two integrated decision support models in the case studies: Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM; Giampietro and Mayumi [14]) and LEAM [98]. Four studies we reviewed used the MuSIASEM approach [77,79,101,102] while LEAM was used only once. Studies that used MuSIASEM placed stronger emphasis on CHANS by assessing labour and wealth alongside material and energy flows, but these were not found to be relevant for assessing ES.…”

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Pathways to Modelling Ecosystem Services within an Urban Metabolism Framework

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Urbanisation poses new and complex sustainability challenges. Socio-economic activities drive material and energy flows in cities that influence the health of ecosystems inside and outside the urban system. Recent studies suggest that these flows, under the urban metabolism (UM) metaphor, can be extended to encompass the assessment of urban ecosystem services (UES). Advancing UM approaches to assess UES may be a valuable solution to these arising sustainability challenges, which can support urban planning decisions. This paper critically reviews UM literature related to the UES concept and identifies approaches that may allow or improve the assessment of UES within UM frameworks. We selected from the UM literature 42 studies that encompass UES aspects, and analysed them on the following key investigation themes: temporal information, spatial information, system boundary aspects and cross-scale indicators. The analysis showed that UES are rarely acknowledged in UM literature, and that existing UM approaches have limited capacity to capture the complexity of spatio-temporal and multi-scale information underpinning UES, which has hampered the implementation of operational decision support systems so far. We use these results to identify and illustrate pathways towards a UM-UES modelling approach. Our review suggests that cause–effect dynamics should be integrated with the UM framework, based on spatially-specific social, economic and ecological data. System dynamics can inform on the causal relationships underpinning UES in cities and, therefore, can help moving towards a knowledge base tool to support urban planners in addressing urban challenges.

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“…Su et al (2009) used emergy synthesis combined with set pair analysis to establish the urban ecosystem health assessment system. In addition, there were attempts to apply the urban metabolism concept in global warming (Kendall 2012), public and private transportation systems (Kennedy 2002), the industrial process (Krausmann & Haberl 2002), land use (Lu et al 2016) and the water environment (Lauver & Baker 2000;Baker et al 2001).…”

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Evaluating sustainable urban development using urban metabolism indicators in urban design

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Gil²,

Wandl³

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Eur. XXI

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Urban metabolism is a multi-disciplinary approach to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate resource flows in urban systems, which aims to provide important insights into the dynamics of cities to make them more ecologically responsible. It has been also introduced into the urban design domain, however most of the attempts concern only tracking of energy and/or material flows to reduce environmental impacts by redesigning closed loops in a specific area. The hypothesis of this paper is that the concept of urban metabolism, and its indicators, could play an important role in advancing the science and practice related to sustainability in urban design and development. At the moment, however we lack indicators to support evaluation of urban design related decisions from the perspective of urban metabolism. The aim of this paper is to explore the application of urban metabolism indicators in urban design based on their characteristics. It reviews development periods of the concept and analytical models of urban metabolism, in order to identify crucial urban metabolism indicators for urban design. Next, these urban metabolism indicators are classified regarding type of analytical model, accounting method, indicator type, and indicator level. Finally, several suggestions are offered on how to integrate urban metabolism indicators into urban design. In addition, directions for future research on the topic are discussed.

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“…Some researchers analyzed the material and energy flows in industries, households and megacities, and the resulting environmental impacts assessments (Kennedy et al, 2014;Lei et al, 2016;Liu et al, 2011;Sahely et al, 2003;Zhang et al, 2006). Other researches have attempted to make metabolic studies spatially explicit by considering the interactions between urban metabolism and the spatial distribution of land use and cover types (Huang and Chen, 2009;Lee et al, 2009;Marull et al, 2010;Lu et al, 2016).…”

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A framework for the urban eco-metabolism model - Linking metabolic processes to spatial patterns

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Chang

Zhou

et al. 2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tRapid urbanization disordered the urban metabolism, pressed the contradiction between resources supply and demand, and caused urban environment deterioration. Urban metabolism provides important insights into the characterization of material and energy flows and the relationships between anthropogenic urban activities and natural processes. However, linking socio-economic and ecologic models, and tracking the time-dependent distribution and configuration of material and energy flows across the entire city are imperatively needed in urban metabolism model development. In this study, the points, lines and areas concepts were introduced to connect the urban landscape patterns and ecometabolic processes. A framework developed to simplify the urban landscape as areas, and use points and lines to depict the eco-metabolic processes in space. In application, a model framework of urban water metabolism was used as an example to analyze the natural hydrological processes and social water metabolism in an urban ecosystem. Water balance of a community was calculated by the model. The total input and output of the community's water metabolism was 50189. /d wastewater out. The runoff coefficient of the impervious area, pervious area and the community was 0.87, 0.30 and 0.55, respectively. The model has provided a tool for urban planners to improve landscape patterns and infrastructure layouts within urban ecosystem to build sustainable cities.

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Changes of human time and land use pattern in one mega city's urban metabolism: a multi-scale integrated analysis of Shanghai

Cited by 50 publications

References 46 publications

Pathways to Modelling Ecosystem Services within an Urban Metabolism Framework

Pathways to Modelling Ecosystem Services within an Urban Metabolism Framework

Evaluating sustainable urban development using urban metabolism indicators in urban design

A framework for the urban eco-metabolism model - Linking metabolic processes to spatial patterns

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