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

“BE：城市中心可持续工业系统的缪斯/建模材料流”是一项跨学科的“概念验证”工作，将工程和规划中的独立模型联系起来并整合起来，以测试区域位置对工业生态学至关重要的整体假设。研究人员试图解决可持续性思维中的重大差距，这是由于将可持续工业系统与可持续城市系统分开对待而造成的。 只有弥合这一差距，才能充分实现减轻工业对环境影响的努力。该研究将评估从物质流和城市系统模型中创建混合模型的潜力，以研究区域位置对工业生态的影响。 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知识伙伴关系。 该模型的开发将建立在亚特兰大大都市地区的计算机回收和再制造的情况下。 工程学一直致力于可持续的工业系统，城市和区域规划一直致力于可持续的城市系统。 这项规划补助金将直接影响社会，表明工程和区域规划不仅可以共同努力，以结合可持续工业和城市系统的目标，但必须这样做，以实现更大的成就的可持续发展的条件比任何学科可以独立实现。 城市中心物料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。

"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.