Infrastructure ecology: an evolving paradigm for sustainable urban development
Infrastructure ecology: an evolving paradigm for sustainable urban development
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.09.010
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发表时间：
2017-10
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
A. Pandit;E. Minne;Feng Li;Hillary Brown;Hyun-Cheol Jeong;J. James;J. Newell;M. Weissburg;
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作者：
A. Pandit;E. Minne;Feng Li;Hillary Brown;Hyun-Cheol Jeong;J. James;J. Newell;M. Weissburg;
城市化进程的加快使城市处于实现全球可持续性的前沿。然而，要使城市更具可持续性，它们所依赖的基础设施也必须提高生产力、效率和复原力。不幸的是，目前的城市基础设施发展模式在方法上是分散的，缺乏系统的观点。城市基础设施系统类似于生态系统，因为它们是相互关联的、复杂的和自适应的组成部分，它们之间以及与环境之间交换材料、信息和能量，并表现出可以用齐普夫定律表示的特征尺度特性。将它们作为一个整体进行分析，就像对生态系统所做的那样，可以更好地了解它们的动态和相互作用，并实现系统级优化。采用这种“基础设施生态学”方法将导致城市（再）发展，这种发展需要更少的财政和自然资源投资来建设和维护，更可持续（例如使用更少的材料和能源，产生更少的废物）和更有弹性，并为创造财富和舒适提供更多和更公平的机会。基础设施生态学的12项指导原则将为城市规划者、工程师和城市系统中的其他决策者提供一套城市（再）发展目标。
Increasing urbanization places cities at the forefront of achieving global sustainability. For cities to become more sustainable, however, the infrastructure on which they rely must also become more productive, efficient and resilient. Unfortunately the current paradigm of urban infrastructure development is fragmented in approach lacking a systems perspective. Urban infrastructure systems are analogous to ecological systems because they are interconnected, complex and adaptive components that exchange material, information and energy among themselves and to and from the environment, and exhibit characteristic scaling properties that can be expressed by Zipf's Law. Analyzing them together as a whole, as one would do for an ecological system, provides a better understanding about their dynamics and interactions, and enables system-level optimization. The adoption of this “infrastructure ecology” approach will result in urban (re)development that requires lower investment of financial and natural resources to build and maintain, is more sustainable (e.g. uses less materials and energy and generates less waste) and resilient, and enables a greater and more equitable opportunities for the creation of wealth and comfort. The 12 guiding principles of infrastructure ecology will provide a set of goals for urban planners, engineers and other decision-makers in an urban system for urban (re)development.