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Urban Metabolism / Alexandros Karvounis --<br/>Decision Support Tools for Urban Planning / Nick Hodges, Ainhoa González and Zina Mitraka --<br/>The BRIDGE Approach / Nektarios Chrysoulakis --<br/>Physical Fluxes in the Urban Environment / Björn Lietzke, Roland Vogt, Duixk T. Young and C.S.B. GRimmond --<br/>Environmental Measurements in BRIDGE Case Studies / Vincenzo Magliulo, Pierro Toscano, C.B.S. Grimmond, Simone Kotthaus, Leena Järvi, Heikki Setälä, Fredrik Lindberg, Roband Vogt, Tomasz Staszewski, Anicenta Bubak, Afroditi Synnefa and Mattheos Santamouris --<br/>Use of Earth Observation to support Urban Modelling Parameterization in BRIDGE / Constantinos Caralis, Marina Stathopoulou, Zina Mitraka and Nektarios Chrysoulakis --<br/>Meso-scale Meteorological Models in the Urban Context / Roberto San José and Juan Luis Pérez --<br/>Urban Air Quality Models / Carlos Borrego, Myriam Lopes, Pedro Cascão, Jorge Humberto Amorim, Helena Martins, Richard Tavares, Ana Isabel Miranda, Matthew James Tallis and Peter H. Freer-Smith --<br/>Urban Energy Budget Models / C.S.B. Grimmond, Leena Järvi, Fredrik Lindberg, Serena Marras, Matthias Falk, Thomas Loridan, Gregoire Pigeon, David R. Pyles and Donatella Spano --<br/>Urban Water Balance and Hydrology Models / Eddy J. Moors, C.S.B. Grimmond, Ab Velhuizen, Leena Järvi and Frank van der Bolt --<br/>Urban Carbon Budget Modelling / Donatella Spano, Serena AMrras and Veronica Bellucco --<br/>The Use of Communities of Practice to Involve Stakeholders in the DSS Design / Judith E.M. Klostermann, Annemarie Groot and Ainhoa González --<br/>Collection of Socioeconomic Data and Indicators for Urban Integrated Modelling / Margaretha Breil and Ainhoa González --<br/>Combining Environmental and Socioeconomic / Eduardo Castro and Marta Marques --<br/>The BRIDGE Impact Assessment Framework / Ainhoa Gonzáles, Mikes Jones and Alison Donnelly --<br/>The BRIDGE Decision Support System / Zina Mitraka, Manolis Diamantakis and Nektarios Chrysoulakis --<br/>Decision Making under Certainty: Use of Foresight for Assessing Planning Alternatives / Marta Marques, Eduardo Castro and Annemarie Groot --<br/>Guidelines for Urban Sustainable Development / Myriam Lopes, Carlos Borrego, Helena Martins and Jorge Humberto Amorim --<br/>Conclusions / Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Eduardo Anselmo de Castro and Eddy J. Moors. |
| Abstract, etc |
"Understanding Urban Metabolism closes the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions. Urban Metabolism considers a city as a system, and distinguishes between energy and material flows as its components. Based on research from the BRIDGE project, this book deals with the exchanges and transformation of energy, water, carbon and pollutants and introduces a new method for evaluating how planning alternatives can modify the physical flows of urban metabolism components and how environmental and socioeconomic components interact. The inclusion of sustainability principles into urban planning provides an opportunity to place the new knowledge provided by bio-physical sciences at the centre of the planning process, but there is a strong need for closing the gap between knowledge and practice, as well as a better dissemination of research results and exchange of best practice. This book meets that need and provides the reader with the tools they need to integrate an understanding of urban metabolism into urban planning practice"--Résumé de l'éditeur. |
