Metropolitan Sustainability

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Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy

Introduction

Part I: Metropolitan sustainability: an introduction

Chapter 1: A living city: using urban metabolism analysis to view cities as life forms

Abstract:

1.1 Introduction: urban metabolism (UM), or urban energy systems

1.2 Divergent measuring approaches in UM analysis

1.3 UM studies

1.4 Understanding cities through UM

1.5 Directions for planning and policy

1.6 Future trends

Chapter 2: Benefit cost analysis for environmental decision making: using discounting to compare benefits and costs that occur at different points in time

Abstract:

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The rationale for discounting

2.3 A framework for intertemporal ...