Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design
Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design
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10.7551/mitpress/8720.001.0001
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2012-02
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P. Baccini;P. Brunner
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作者：
P. Baccini;P. Brunner
在人类在地球上生活的过去几千年里，农业定居点成为城市核心，这些区域定居点通过运输人员，材料和信息的基础设施紧密相连。这个包括生态系统在内的全球城市系统网络就是人类圈;其中物质和能量的物理流动和储存形成了它的新陈代谢。这本书提供了一个概述的代谢的球体，重点是设计的代谢系统。它采取了文化历史的角度，从自然科学和工程的方法论支持。这本书将感兴趣的学者和从业人员在区域发展，环境保护和材料管理领域。它也将成为工业生态学，环境工程和资源管理的本科生和研究生的资源。描述了人居环境物质存量和流动的时空特征，介绍了代谢研究的物质流分析方法，分析了区域代谢和基本活动产生的物质系统，并提供了磷管理、城市采矿、废物管理和流动性4个最优代谢系统设计的案例。这是一本极具影响力的书的第二版，经过了大量的修订和极大的扩充。它对设计和资源利用的新重视反映了最近关于可持续发展和气候变化的辩论和学术研究。
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolism. This book offers an overview of the metabolism of the anthroposphere, with an emphasis on the design of metabolic systems. It takes a cultural historical perspective, supported with methodology from the natural sciences and engineering. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of regional development, environmental protection, and material management. It will also be a resource for undergraduate and graduate students in industrial ecology, environmental engineering, and resource management. The authors describe the characteristics of material stocks and flows of human settlements in space and time; introduce the method of material flow analysis (MFA) for metabolic studies; analyze regional metabolism and the material systems generated by basic activities; and offer four case studies of optimal metabolic system design: phosphorus management, urban mining, waste management, and mobility. This second edition of an extremely influential book has been substantially revised and greatly expanded. Its new emphasis on design and resource utilization reflects recent debates and scholarship on sustainable development and climate change.