Metabolism Of The Anthroposphere Second Edition

Author : Peter Baccini,Paul H. Brunner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262016650

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Metabolism of the Anthroposphere, second edition by Peter Baccini,Paul H. Brunner Pdf

An overview of the cultural evolution of material flows and stocks with an emphasis on the design of metabolic processes in urban systems. Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolism. This book offers an overview of the metabolism of the anthroposphere, with an emphasis on the design of metabolic systems. It takes a cultural historical perspective, supported with methodology from the natural sciences and engineering. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of regional development, environmental protection, and material management. It will also be a resource for undergraduate and graduate students in industrial ecology, environmental engineering, and resource management. The authors describe the characteristics of material stocks and flows of human settlements in space and time; introduce the method of material flow analysis (MFA) for metabolic studies; analyze regional metabolism and the material systems generated by basic activities; and offer four case studies of optimal metabolic system design: phosphorus management, urban mining, waste management, and mobility. This second edition of an extremely influential book has been substantially revised and greatly expanded. Its new emphasis on design and resource utilization reflects recent debates and scholarship on sustainable development and climate change.

Author : P. Baccini,Paul H. Brunner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000018808995

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Metabolism of the Anthroposphere by P. Baccini,Paul H. Brunner Pdf

Author : Paul H. Brunner,Helmut Rechberger
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315313443

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Handbook of Material Flow Analysis by Paul H. Brunner,Helmut Rechberger Pdf

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H. Brunner and Helmut Rechberger guide professional newcomers as well as experienced engineers and scientists towards mastering the art of material flow analysis (MFA) from the very beginning to an advanced state of material balances of complex systems. Handbook of Material Flow Analysis: For Environmental, Resource, and Waste Engineers, Second Edition serves as a concise and reproducible methodology as well as a basis for analysis, assessment and improvement of anthropogenic systems through an approach that is helpfully uniform and standardized. The methodology featured in this book is a vital resource for generating new data, fostering understanding, and increasing knowledge to benefit the growing MFA community working in the fields of industrial ecology, resource management, waste management, and environmental protection. This new second edition takes into account all new developments and readers will profit from a new exploration of STAN software, newly added citations, and thoroughly described case studies that reveal the potential of MFA to solve industrial ecology challenges.

Author : Carlo Delgado-Ramos
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869786769

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Inequality and Climate Change by Carlo Delgado-Ramos Pdf

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century. Anthropogenic activities, such as fossil fuel consumption and other activities focused on enhancing economic growth, have been identified as the main drivers of changes in the environment that defy planetary boundaries. The transgression of planetary boundaries has profound implications for practically all biophysical and human systems and their impact could also be related to the exacerbation of existing problems such as land tenure insecurity, poverty and inequality, marginalization of poorer populations, climate induced migration, and resource wars or conflicts. From a global South perspective, research on the multifaceted nature of climate change is thus necessary and appropriate, including the analysis of socioeconomic, political and cultural aspects. This book is an outcome of the Comparative Research Workshop on Inequality and Climate Change: Perspectives from the South of the South-South Collaborative Programme of CLACSO-CODESRIA-IDEAS. It gathers a diversity of case studies from the South with ample biophysical differences and particular social and cultural realities. As such, it is a fresh contribution offering a vantage point from which to examine some of the current perspectives on inequality and climate change.

Author : S.S. Zubir,C.A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 1429 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845647469

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The Sustainable City VIII (2 Volume Set) by S.S. Zubir,C.A. Brebbia Pdf

With majority of the Earth’s people now urban dwellers, and cities being the most efficient habitat for the utilisation of resources, it is imperative that we continue to support standards of living and efficiencies of urban areas. However, the urbanisation process has not been without its problems. While much has been done to address the original issues surrounding the quality of urban life, new challenges continue to arise. It is no longer sustainable to achieve improvements by means that require greater and greater energy consumption as we did in the past. Despite their complexity, however, cities are a great laboratory for architects, engineers, and other key professionals to apply new ideas and new technology to meet our requirements for more sustainable city environments. Containing papers presented at the latest in a series of conferences organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology, these proceedings, split in to two volumes address not just environmental, architectural, and engineering concerns, but also quality of life, security, risk, and heritage. The diversity of topics and the case studies based on existing projects make the book an important contribution to the literature on urban planning.

Author : Juber Akhtar,Mohammad Ahmad,Mohammad Irfan Khan,Badruddeen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781837683789

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Vitamin B and Vitamin E by Juber Akhtar,Mohammad Ahmad,Mohammad Irfan Khan,Badruddeen Pdf

Vitamin B is a water-soluble vitamin that plays important roles in cell metabolism and synthesis of red blood cells. Many foods contain B vitamins, including meat, poultry, and fish, among others. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin with antioxidant properties that can be found in vegetable oils, cereals, meat, poultry, eggs, and fruits. Both vitamins B and E are important for human health. This book provides a comprehensive overview of vitamins B and E. It is organized into three sections on the role of vitamin B on body health and gut flora, vitamin B deficiency and its association with the disease pellagra, and the medicinal significance and complications associated with vitamin E deficiency.

Author : Thomas Elmqvist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107196933

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The Urban Planet by Thomas Elmqvist Pdf

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet. This title is also available Open Access.

Author : Paul Cureton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317377641

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Strategies for Landscape Representation by Paul Cureton Pdf

Strategies for Landscape Representation discusses a variety of digital and analogue production techniques for the representation of landscape at multiple scales. Careful consideration is required to represent time, and to ensure accuracy of representation and evaluation in the landscape. Written as a guide for making appropriate selection of a wide variety of visualisation tools for students and built environment professionals with an interest in landscape, the book charts emerging technologies and historical contexts whilst also being relevant to landscape legislation such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Landscape Assessment. This book is an innovation-driven text that encourages readers to make connections between software, technology and analogue modes. The management, choice and combination of such modes can arguably narrow the unknown of landscape character, address the issues of representing time and change in landscape and engage and represent communities’ perceptions and experience of landscape. Showcasing international examples from landscape architecture, planning, urban design and architecture, artists, visualisers, geographers, scientists and model makers, the vitality of making and intrinsic value of representational work in these processes and sites is evidenced. An accompanying companion website provides access to original source files and tutorials totalling over a hundred hours in mapping and GIS, diagrams and notation, photomontage, 3D modelling and 3D printing.

Author : Peter Baccini,Paul H. Brunner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ecology
ISBN : UCSC:32106009875110

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Metabolism of the Anthroposphere by Peter Baccini,Paul H. Brunner Pdf

The topic treated in this book is the dynamics of material fluxes in the immediate human environment - the anthroposphere. A comprehensive understanding of mans activities in connection with, for example, nutrition, hygiene, habitation and transport is essential for early recognition of limitations of resources and environmental impact. The methodology of flux analysis is introduced, with examples on how to qualify and quantify the metabolism of complex biological and cultural systems. This is an entirely new approach to describing geogenic and anthropogenic systems. The perceptions gained by material flux analysis complement those obtained in life sciences (e.g. human toxicology), environmental sciences (e.g. ecotoxicology) and social sciences (e.g. economics, sociology). Their application enables a control on regional material fluxes (resource and waste management, environmental impact studies) and the devlopment of kybernetic strategies for the metabolic evolution of the anthroposphere.

Author : Peggy F. Barlett,Geoffrey W. Chase
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262316699

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Sustainability in Higher Education by Peggy F. Barlett,Geoffrey W. Chase Pdf

Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs. In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging new paths to sustainability. From private liberal arts colleges to major research institutions to community colleges, sustainability concerns are being integrated into curricula, policies, and programs. New divisions, degree programs, and courses of study cross traditional disciplinary boundaries; Sustainability Councils become part of campus governance; and new sustainability issues link to historic social and educational missions. In this book, leaders from twenty-four colleges and universities offer their stories of institutional and personal transformation. These stories document both the power of leadership—whether by college presidents, faculty, staff, or student activists—and the potential for institutions to redefine themselves. Chapters recount, among other things, how inclusive campus governance helped mobilize students at the University of South Carolina; how a course at the Menominee Nation's tribal college linked sustainability and traditional knowledge; how the president of Furman University convinced a conservative campus community to make sustainability a strategic priority; how students at San Diego State University built sustainability into future governance while financing a LEED platinum-certified student center; and how sustainability transformed pedagogy in a lecture class at Penn State. As this book makes clear, there are many paths to sustainability in higher education. These stories offer a snapshot of what has been accomplished and a roadmap to what is possible. Colleges and Universities Covered Arizona State University • Central College, Iowa • College of the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin • Curriculum for the Bio-region Project, Pacific Northwest • Drury University, Missouri • Emory University, Georgia • Florida A&M University • Furman University, South Carolina • Green Mountain College, Vermont • Kap'olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii • Pennsylvania State University • San Diego State University • Santa Clara University, California • Slippery Rock State University, Pennsylvania • Spelman College, Georgia • Unity College, Maine • University of Hawaii–Manoa • University of Michigan • University of South Carolina • University of South Florida • University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh • Warren Wilson College, North Carolina • Yale University

Author : Paola Viganò,Chiara Cavalieri,Martina Barcelloni Corte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319759753

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The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization by Paola Viganò,Chiara Cavalieri,Martina Barcelloni Corte Pdf

This book provides an overview of the Horizontal Metropolis concept, and of the theoretical, methodological and political implications for the interdisciplinary field in which it operates. The book investigates the contemporary emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents, up to the global scale. Further, it explores the diffusion of contemporary urban conditions in an interdisciplinary and original manner by analyzing essential case studies. Offering extensive content on the Horizontal Metropolis concept, the book presents a range of approaches intended to transcend various inherited spatial ontologies: urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, and society/nature. The book is intended for all readers interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography.

Author : Paul H. Brunner,Helmut Rechberger
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203507209

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Practical Handbook of Material Flow Analysis by Paul H. Brunner,Helmut Rechberger Pdf

The first-ever book on this subject establishes a rigid, transparent and useful methodology for investigating the material metabolism of anthropogenic systems. Using Material Flow Analysis (MFA), the main sources, flows, stocks, and emissions of man-made and natural materials can be determined. By demonstrating the application of MFA, this book reveals how resources can be conserved and the environment protected within complex systems. The fourteen case studies presented exemplify the potential for MFA to contribute to sustainable materials management. Exercises throughout the book deepen comprehension and expertise. The authors have had success in applying MFA to various fields, and now promote the use of MFA so that future engineers and planners have a common method for solving resource-oriented problems.

Author : Manuel González de Molina,Víctor M. Toledo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319063584

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The Social Metabolism by Manuel González de Molina,Víctor M. Toledo Pdf

Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around this concept, which prevents the consolidation of a unified field of new knowledge. The fundamental aim of the book is to conduct a review of the past and present usage of the concept of social metabolism, its origins and history, as well as the main currents or schools that exist around this concept. At the same time, the reviews and discussions included are used by the authors as starting points to draw conclusions and propose a theory of socio-ecological transformations. The theoretical and methodological innovations of this book include a distinction of two types of metabolic processes: tangible and intangible; the analysis of the social metabolism at different scales (in space and time) and a theory of socio-ecological change overcoming the merely “systemic” or “cybernetic” nature of conventional approaches, giving special protagonism to collective action.

Author : Robert U. Ayres,Udo Ernst Simonis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009138434

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Industrial Metabolism by Robert U. Ayres,Udo Ernst Simonis Pdf

Papers from a 1989 workshop, held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, under the auspices of the United Nations University and the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study, look at industrial development in the face of global environmental change, using the analogy that convert raw materials and energy into finished products. Examines case histories from the US, Europe, and India. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : G. Huppes
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032578125

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Macro-environmental Policy by G. Huppes Pdf

The central theme of this book is how macro-environmental policy can be developed which does not prescribe or suggest specific technologies and products but realises the environmental quality desired by changing the general context. and the normative principles for policy design and evaluation, (the first two parts) form the analytic core. The framework for analysis gives a classification of instruments in terms of permutations of a limited number of defining elements. The normative principles guide choices in instrument design and, as the flexible response strategy, guide their application in specific policies. Detailing two main new instruments - the standard method for LCA and the substance deposit - and applying the instrument strategy as developed to the cases make up the next two parts. Social scientists and policy scientists might concentrate on the framework, while those engaged in the theory of policy development and policy analysis, including strategic analysis, might find items of prime interest in the part on principles. Those interested in specific environmental problems may find particular value in the extensive case studies.