Metabolic Impact Assessment for urban planning

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2013

Authors

Paulo Pinho (Author) FEUP; Vitor Oliveira (Author) FEUP; Sara Santos Cruz (Author) FEUP; Magda Barbosa (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Vol. 56 No. 2

Pages: 178-193

ISSN: 0964-0568

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Indexing

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Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences

CORDIS: Social sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-09T

DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2012.657953

Abstract (EN): The functioning of urban systems involves high levels of resource consumption and a complex web of energy, water and material flows. The fundamental aim of this paper is to understand how future urban systems could be designed to be consistently less damaging to the environment. Its main contribution is the proposal of a methodology for evaluating the urban development process from ametabolic perspective, the Metabolic Impact Assessment (MIA). After a brief introduction to evaluation in environmental planning, the paper describes the main influences of MIA, presents a set of principles for a metabolic assessment, and describes in detail the methodology's evaluation procedure.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16