Sustainable urban metabolism /

A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked commun...

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Main Authors: Ferrão, Paulo, 1962- (Author), Ferrão, Paulo, 1962- (Author), Fernandez, John, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
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