Metabolism of the Anthroposphere
Metabolism of the Anthroposphere An overview of the cultural evolution of material flows and stocks with an emphasis on the design of metabolic processes in urban systems.Over the last several…
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Metabolism of the Anthroposphere
An overview of the cultural evolution of material flows and stocks with an emphasis on the design of metabolic processes in urban systems.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 book offers an overview of the metabolism of the anthroposphere, with an emphasis on the design of metabolic systems. 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.
The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of regional development, environmental It takes a cultural historical perspective, supported with methodology from the natural sciences and engineering.