Sustainability is rapidly moving from an abstract concept to a measurable state of dynamic
human-ecological systems. The large number of economic, social, and environmental …

During the 50 years since the concept of urban metabolism was proposed, this field of
research has evolved slowly. On the basis of an analogy with an organism's metabolism, the …

Urban regions are important places of ecosystem service demands and, at the same time,
are the primary source of global environmental impacts. Although there is broad agreement …

The interconnection of urbanization trends and environmental pressures, are due to the
rising demand for resource consumption, waste production and greenhouses gas …

Spatial differences in the supply and demand of ecosystem services such as water
provisioning often imply that the demand for ecosystem services cannot be fulfilled at the …

Environmental cost–benefit analysis is applied for the evaluation of renewable energy
projects. Since some benefits and costs do not have monetary values, economic valuation …

Names: Douglas, Ian, 1936–editor.| Routledge (Firm) Title: The Routledge handbook of
urban ecology/edited by Ian Douglas, Pippin Anderson, David Goode, Michael C. Houck …

This study presents a quantitative national assessment of urban water availability and
vulnerability for 225 US cities with population greater than 100,000. Here, the urban …

This paper examines how the human demand on bioproductive lands, as measured by the
Ecological Footprint, is distributed across the globe using methods commonly used to …

Currently, trade enables regions to have a higher provisioning ecosystem services (ES)
demand than that provided by ecosystems in the same region. This practice leads to a …