Urban Metabolism - An Approach for Enhancing Resilience
- R. B. Sukmara (Author)
- 31 Mei 2023
- 2 menit membaca
Ariyaningsih, Riyan Benny Sukmara, Chandrali Sarkarm Dwi Putri Agustianingsih & Rajib Shaw (2023)

Book Chapter Title:
Urban Metabolism - An Approach for Enhancing Resilience
Book Title:
Urban Metabolism and Climate Change
Publisher:
Springer
Abstract
Along with the increase in the size of the city and the high rate of urbanization, unsustainable urban development can cause severe ecological and environmental issues because cities are essential points of contact between natural and socio-economic systems and places where human activity is concentrated. In addition, urban areas are becoming extremely vulnerable to risks caused by a wide range of sources, including the climate change and urban disasters. However, it is not clear how the urban system relates to one another across different scales within a city or how cities compare to one another in terms of their capacity to survive, recover from, and adapt to various sources of stress. In the meantime, the concept of resilience has been around for long time, and it has seen a great benefit in implementation in urban planning and disaster preparedness. Further, in recent years, urban metabolism has been widely implemented as a valuable framework for assessing an urban systemās energy efficiency, material recycling, waste management, and infrastructure. The integration of urban resilience and urban metabolism as concepts can be of tremendous value to the development of strategies for sustainability. This chapter discusses the integration of the resilience concept and the urban metabolism framework, and it also provides case studies that illustrate how this integration can be put into practice and its implications. Reengineering cities and urban life to control and balance unsustainable and unequal urban metabolisms must be implemented. The development of theoretical and practical approaches to urban metabolism requires interdisciplinary collaboration.

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