Cities beyond borders: Rethinking the urban metabolism
While materials and pollution can move freely across boundaries and borders (e.g., national/administrative, political, natural, physical, imaginary, or ethnical borders), a number of issues can hamper the understanding of transboundary urban and socio-economic metabolism. Issues can include: limited traceability associated with different systems for material/pollution monitoring and accounting; different policies and measures to allocate resources, and keep material flows accountable; a lack of information exchange across borders; uneven use and communication of data analytics; etc.
This session highlights the use and array of urban and socio-economic metabolism interpretations across the spectrum along boundaries/borders. How can the use of metabolism studies be applied along neighboring regions? How can we quantify material, energy, and pollution along undefined system boundaries? As a result, how can we work towards a standard and transparent monitoring system (e.g., practical applications, data reporting, tools, etc.) that can be used by neighboring regions?
This session will discuss urban metabolism applications to explore the foundations, limitations, and future research of urban metabolism along neighboring regions, leading to a discussion of the nexus between the complexities of city system boundaries. Topics include (but are not limited to):
(1) Data acquisition and accounting of transboundary material and pollution cycles (e.g., water and natural resources, pollutants and chemicals, recyclables, post-consumer/industrial waste, hazardous/medical waste);
(2) The role of technology innovation in advancing cross-border metabolism studies (e.g., real-time data monitoring, earth observation);
(3) The role of policy and governance in advancing cross-border metabolism studies;
(4) Measuring, monitoring, modeling cross-border metabolism (e.g., resources and medicines flows, people movements) at the time of COVID-19.
SLOT 9: Cities Beyond Borders: Rethinking the Urban Metabolism
Session program:
- Minute 0-5: Welcome and Introductions by the session Chairs.
- Minute 5-20: “Regenerative energy network flows: a vision of regenerativity toward urban metabolism”, Dr. Domenico Vito, Resilience Lab, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
- Minute 20-35: “A multi-criteria framework for assessing urban socio-ecological systems: The emergy nexus of the urban economy and environment,” Oleksandr Galychyn, Parthenope University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
- Minute 35-50: “Tijuana: Mapping Secondary Cities for Resiliency, Human Security and Emergency Preparedness Program (2C),” Dr. Alma Beatriz Navarro Cerda, Faculty of Economics and International Relations, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico.
- Minute 50-65: “Challenges and opportunities on the Colombian-Venezuelan border: A look at its urban metabolism,” Omar Rozo Pérez, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Sede Cúcuta, Colombia.
- Minute 65-80: “Urban Metabolism in light of Rare Earth Materials – Mission Mars?”Dr. Umair Khalique, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.
- Minute 80-95: “The city and its global food system: a spatial hotspot analysis from an urban metabolism perspective,” Liesbeth de Schutter and Stefan Giljum, Eveline van Leeuwen, Wageningen University, Chair Group Urban Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna, Austria
- Minute 95-100: Final remarks and closing by the session Chairs.
- Minute 100-120:
Organizers and session chairs: This session is organised and co-chaired by Dr. Gabriela Fernandez (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA) and Carol Maione (Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy).
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