Urban metabolism: A review of research methodologies

Y Zhang - Environmental pollution, 2013 - Elsevier
Urban metabolism analysis has become an important tool for the study of urban ecosystems.
The problems of large metabolic throughput, low metabolic efficiency, and disordered …

Impacts of energy-saving and emission-reduction on sustainability of cement production

Q **ang, H Pan, X Ma, M Yang, Y Lyu, X Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
How energy saving and emission reduction measures influence the interrelationship
between carbon emissions and environmental sustainability of cement industry is not very …

The geobiosphere emergy baseline: A synthesis

MT Brown, DE Campbell, C De Vilbiss, S Ulgiati - Ecological Modelling, 2016 - Elsevier
The concept of emergy defined as the available energy (or exergy) of one form used up
directly and indirectly to produce an item or action (Odum, Environmental Accounting …

Urban land expansion in China's six megacities from 1978 to 2015

W Fei, S Zhao - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Megacities pose both challenges and opportunities for the transition towards sustainability,
and understanding the evolution of urbanization in megacities has profound implications for …

Temporal trend of green space coverage in China and its relationship with urbanization over the last two decades

J Zhao, S Chen, B Jiang, Y Ren, H Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2013 - Elsevier
Irrespective of which side is taken in the densification-sprawl debate, insights into the
relationship between urban green space coverage and urbanization have been recognized …

Comprehensive evaluation of environmental and economic benefits of industrial symbiosis in industrial parks

X Chen, M Dong, L Zhang, X Luan, X Cui… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The benefit evaluation of industrial symbiosis in industrial parks plays an important part in
park management. This study aims to propose a comprehensive assessment method for …

A review of urban metabolism studies to identify key methodological choices for future harmonization and implementation

D Beloin-Saint-Pierre, B Rugani, S Lasvaux… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
The concept of urban metabolism has often been used to model and analyze urban regions
to provide insights on their environmental sustainability. However, no consensus exists on …

Emergy-based valuation of agriculture ecosystem services and dis-services

SM Shah, G Liu, Q Yang, X Wang, M Casazza… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
The agriculture ecosystem is very important, complex and humankind largest engineered
ecosystem providing essential ecosystem services as well as many disservices, depending …

Evaluating the relationships among economic growth, energy consumption, air emissions and air environmental protection investment in China

X Zhang, L Wu, R Zhang, S Deng, Y Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper analyzed the interactions among China's economic growth and its energy
consumption, air emissions and air environmental protection investment during 2000–2007 …

Assessing environmental services and disservices of urban street trees. an application of the emergy accounting

AM Shah, G Liu, Z Huo, Q Yang, W Zhang… - Resources …, 2022 - Elsevier
The urban green infrastructure (UGI), with special focus on street trees, is a very complex
engineered ecosystem which plays an important role in generating ecosystem services and …