TY - BOOK AU - Ferrão,Paulo AU - Fernández,John E. TI - Sustainable urban metabolism SN - 9780262019361 AV - HT166 F378 2013 U1 - 307.1/216 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England PB - The MIT Press KW - Sustainable urban development KW - Globalization KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) KW - Local KW - City planning N1 - Includes indexes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239); Urban metabolism: defining a field -- Industrial ecology: a metaphor for sustainable development -- Urban metabolism: resource consumption of cities -- Intellectual foundations and key insights -- Industrial ecology: a framework -- Industrial ecology: a framework of tools and practices -- Industrial ecology tools applied to urban resource management -- Sustainable urban systems -- Green urban policies and development -- Urban typologies: prospects and indicators -- Complexity and dynamics of urban systems -- Integrated approaches to sustainable urban metabolism -- Mapping and assessing urban metabolism -- Urban metabolism in practice: case studies from the developed world -- The challenge of urban metabolism in a developing context ER -