The interconnection of urbanization trends and environmental pressures, are due to the
rising demand for resource consumption, waste production and greenhouses gas …

Humans are extracting and consuming unprecedented quantities of materials from the
earth's crust. The construction sector and the built environment are major drivers of this …

Cities and their building stocks result in huge environmental impacts which are critical to
reduce. However, the majority of existing studies focus on operational requirements or on …

To enable cities to become more circular, ie close material cycles, decision-makers need
detailed data about the production and treatment of waste. At city level, conventional …

Fundamental changes in the societal use of biophysical resources are required for a
sustainability transformation. Current socioeconomic metabolism research traces flows of …

Low‐energy building standards shift environmental impacts from the operational to the
embodied emissions, making material efficiency (ME) important for climate mitigation. To …

Understanding which factors influence urban metabolism is a prerequisite for designing
policies and plans that effectuate sustainable resource management. A growing number of …

Biomass, biobased materials and food waste are considered priority areas for Europe's
transition towards a circular economy (CE). Waste management is a central activity for this …

Food supply chains are essential for urban sustainability. To reflect on the state of
knowledge on urban food flows in urban metabolism research, and the actual and potential …

In the framework of pressing local and global environmental challenges it is essential to
understand that cities are complex systems dependent on and linked to the rest of the world …