The concept of urban metabolism has been profusely used by various disciplines over the
last and current century to describe different urban phenomena. One theme that appears to …

Soil has been used as building material for thousands of years with a decrease in popularity
after the industrial revolution. Nowadays, there is a growing interest in the implementation of …

The growing evidence-base demonstrating that cities are responsible for accelerated natural-
resource erosion and the exacerbated impacts of atmospheric emissions on climate change …

Urban metabolism studies provide valuable insights that can improve resource efficiency at
the city scale. However, only a limited number of such studies include spatially explicit data …

Abstract The “Urban Metabolism” concept has in recent years gained popularity in urban
sustainability research and still thrives in disciplinary fields as varied as urban ecology …

Understanding the ecosystem services provided by urban green spaces, in terms of their
environmental, economic, and social benefits, is essential for a better management of area …

An understanding of human and non-human agency is essential to fully capture the nature
and configurations of resource circulations and “metabolic” dynamics in cities. Since their …

Research into urban commons has gained momentum in recent years. This article
concentrates on the concept and analysis of urban water commons as social–ecological …

It is critical that we move our understanding of the ecosystem services (ESs) produced by
landscapes from the present abundance of analysis to a fundamental basis of design. This …

This literature review explores the role of urban metabolism (UM) assessments in
addressing food security through urban agriculture in informal settlements, particularly in …