How Long to Read Sustainable Urban Metabolism

How Long Does it Take to Read Sustainable Urban Metabolism?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Sustainable Urban Metabolism by Paulo Ferrao

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities account for enormous flows of energy and materials—inflows of goods and services and outflows of waste. Thus urban environmental management critically affects global sustainability. In this book, Paulo Ferrão and John Fernández offer a metabolic perspective on urban sustainability, viewing the city as a metabolism, in terms of its exchanges of matter and energy. Their book provides a roadmap to the strategies and tools needed for a scientifically based framework for analyzing and promoting the sustainability of urban systems. Using the concept of urban metabolism as a unifying framework, Ferrão and Fernandez describe a systems-oriented approach that establishes useful linkages among environmental, economic, social, and technical infrastructure issues. These linkages lead to an integrated information-intensive platform that enables ecologically informed urban planning. After establishing the theoretical background and describing the diversity of contributing disciplines, the authors sample sustainability approaches and tools, offer an extended study of the urban metabolism of Lisbon, and outline the challenges and opportunities in approaching urban sustainability in both developed and developing countries.

How long is Sustainable Urban Metabolism?

Sustainable Urban Metabolism by Paulo Ferrao is 259 pages long, and a total of 67,081 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sustainable Urban Metabolism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Sustainable Urban Metabolism aloud.

What Reading Level is Sustainable Urban Metabolism?

Sustainable Urban Metabolism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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