BE: MUSES/Materials Flow Modeling in Sustainable Industrial Systems Within Urban Centers

BE：城市中心可持续工业系统中的缪斯/物料流建模

• 批准号: 0424664
• 负责人: Nancey Green Leigh
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0424664&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MUSES; Materials; Flow; Modeling; Sustainable

"BE:MUSES / Modeling Materials Flows for Sustainable Industrial Systems in Urban Centers" is an interdisciplinary "proof of concept" effort that links and integrates separate models from engineering and planning to test the overall hypothesis that regional location matters for industrial ecology. The researchers seek to address the significant gap in thinking on sustainability that has resulted from treating sustainable industrial systems separately from sustainable urban systems. Efforts to mitigate the environmental impacts of industry cannot be fully realized until this gap is closed. The research will evaluate the potential to create hybrid models from materials flow and urban systems models for examining the impact of regional location on industrial ecology. In so doing, it will build an intellectual partnership between researchers in the fields of chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and city and regional planning. The model development will be built on a case of computer recycling and remanufacturing for the Atlanta metropolitan region. Engineering has been working towards sustainable industrial systems, and city and regional planning has been working towards sustainable urban systems. This planning grant will directly impact society by demonstrating that engineering and regional planning not only can work together to marry the goals of sustainable industrial and urban systems, but must do so to realize greater achievement of the conditions of sustainability than either discipline could achieve independently. Accurate modeling of materials flows for urban centers will contribute to the ability to develop market-based collection, recycling, and remanufacturing systems and to ensure that the impacts stemming from the consumption of greenfields are compared to those generated in urban areas in need of economic revitalization.

“BE：城市中心可持续工业系统的缪斯/物流建模”是一项跨学科的“概念验证”工作，将工程和规划中的不同模型联系起来并加以整合，以检验区域区位对工业生态重要这一总体假设。研究人员试图解决由于将可持续工业系统与可持续城市系统分开对待而导致的在可持续发展思维方面的重大差距。在缩小这一差距之前，减轻工业对环境的影响的努力不可能完全实现。这项研究将评估从物质流和城市系统模型创建混合模型的潜力，以考察区域区位对工业生态的影响。通过这样做，它将在化学工程、机械工程以及城市和区域规划领域的研究人员之间建立智力伙伴关系。该模型的开发将建立在亚特兰大大都市区计算机回收和再制造的案例上。工程学一直在努力实现可持续的工业系统，城市和区域规划一直在努力实现可持续的城市系统。这笔规划赠款将直接影响社会，因为它表明，工程学和区域规划不仅可以共同努力，实现可持续工业和城市系统的目标，而且必须这样做，以实现比任何一个学科单独实现的更大的可持续条件成就。城市中心物流的准确建模将有助于开发基于市场的收集、回收和再制造系统，并确保将绿地消费产生的影响与需要经济振兴的城市地区产生的影响进行比较。