par Meirelles, Joao;Pagani, Anna;Athanassiadis, Aristide 
;Binder, Claudia C.R.
Référence Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems, Cambridge University Press, page (261-289)
Publication Publié, 2020-01
;Binder, Claudia C.R.Référence Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems, Cambridge University Press, page (261-289)
Publication Publié, 2020-01
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| Résumé : | This chapter provides an integrative view of the sustainability challenges of urban systems. Thereby, urban metabolism is explored as a promising framework which is often praised as offering a systemic understanding of sustainability challenges in different areas. Nevertheless, this framework still has several shortcomings. To overcome these limitations and to better understand what the urban characteristics are that make cities (un)sustainable and contribute to global (un)sustainability, we take a historical perspective. This is combined with additional pieces of evidence into a general and systemic metabolic view of the effects of urbanisation on social, environmental, and economic sustainability. The chapter concludes by proposing an integrative and transdisciplinary framework to cover the multiple facets of urban sustainability both in terms of spatial scales and from a disciplinary point of view. |
