Global S&T Development Trend Analysis Platform of Resources and Environment
DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aa7c21 |
Doing more with less (data): complexities of resource flow analysis in the Gauteng City-Region | |
Culwick, Christina1; Gotz, Graeme1; Butcher, Sian2; Harber, Jesse1; Maree, Gillian1; Mushongera, Darlington1 | |
2017-12-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 12期号:12 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | South Africa |
英文摘要 | Urban metabolism is a growing field of study into resource flows through cities, and how these could be managed more sustainably. There are two main schools of thought on urban metabolism-metabolic flow analysis (MFA) and urban political ecology (UPE). The two schools remain siloed despite common foundations. This paper reflects on recent research by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) into urban sustainability transitions in South Africa's Gauteng City-Region, a large and sprawling urban formation that faces a host of sustainability challenges including water deficits, erratic electricity supply, stretched infrastructure networks and increasingly carbon-intensive settlement patterns. Three GCRO research projects are reviewed. Each project began with the assumption that data collection on the region's metabolism could enable an MFA or MFA-like analysis to highlight where possible resource efficiency and sustainability gains might be achieved. However, in each case we confronted severe datalimitations, and ended up asking UPE-style questions on the reasons for and implications of the chronic paucity of urban metabolism data. We have been led to conclude that urban metabolism research will require much more than just assembling and modelling flows data, although these efforts should not be abandoned. A synthesis of MFA and UPE is needed, which simultaneously builds a deeper understanding of resource flows and the systems that govern these flows. We support the emerging approach in political-industrial ecology literature which values both material data on and socio-political insight into urban metabolism, and emphasises the importance of multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional analysis to inform decision-making in urban sustainability transitions. |
英文关键词 | urban metabolism metabolic flow analysis urban political ecology Gauteng City-Region urban policy data issues political-industrial ecology |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000417830800002 |
WOS关键词 | URBAN METABOLISM ; POLITICAL ECOLOGY ; SOUTH-AFRICA ; ENERGY ; SCALES ; FIT |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/37587 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Gauteng City Reg Observ, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2.Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, Johannesburg, South Africa |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Culwick, Christina,Gotz, Graeme,Butcher, Sian,et al. Doing more with less (data): complexities of resource flow analysis in the Gauteng City-Region[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,12(12). |
APA | Culwick, Christina,Gotz, Graeme,Butcher, Sian,Harber, Jesse,Maree, Gillian,&Mushongera, Darlington.(2017).Doing more with less (data): complexities of resource flow analysis in the Gauteng City-Region.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,12(12). |
MLA | Culwick, Christina,et al."Doing more with less (data): complexities of resource flow analysis in the Gauteng City-Region".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 12.12(2017). |
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