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Integrating energy and land-use planning : Socio-metabolic profiles along the rural-urban continuum in Catalonia (Spain)
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Ariza-Montobbio, Pere (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Farrell, Katharine N. 1969- (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) ;
Gamboa, Gonzalo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Ramos Martín, Jesús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica)
Abandoning fossil fuels and increasingly relying on low-density, land-intensive renewable energy will increase demand for land, affecting current global and regional rural-urban relationships. Over the past two decades, rural-urban relationships all over the world have witnessed unprecedented changes that have rendered their boundaries blurred and have lead to the emergence of "new ruralities. [...]
2014 -  10.1007/s10668-014-9533-x
Environment, development and sustainability, Vol. 16 Núm. 4 (2014) , p. 925-956
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Catalonia's energy metabolism : Using the MuSIASEM approach at different scales
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Ramos Martín, Jesús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica) ;
Cañellas Boltà, Sílvia (Generalitat de Catalunya. Consell Assessor per al Desenvolupament Sostenible) ;
Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Gamboa, Gonzalo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
This paper applies the so-called Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM), based on Georgescu-Roegen's fund-flow model, to the Spanish region of Catalonia. It arrives to the conclusion that within the context of the end of cheap oil, the current development model of the Catalan economy, based on the growth of low-productivity sectors such as services and construction, must be changed. [...]
2009 - 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.06.028
Energy policy, Vol. 37, Issue 11 (November 2009) , p. 4658-4671
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Multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM) : Theoretical concepts and basic rationale
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Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Mayumi, Kozo (The University of Tokushima (Japan)) ;
Ramos Martín, Jesús (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica)
The multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM) approach makes it possible to perform a check on the feasibility and desirability of patterns of metabolism of socio-economic systems by providing a characterization at different levels and scales of: (a) the performance of socio-economic activities (for households, enterprises, economic sectors, national economies, world economy) and (b) ecological constraints (micro, meso, macro) by looking at the interference that the metabolism of matter and energy flows controlled by human activity induces on the expected pattern of metabolism of matter and energy flows associated with the self-organization of natural ecosystems. [...]
2009 - 10.1016/j.energy.2008.07.020
Energy, Vol. 34, Issue 3 (March 2009) , p. 313-322
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The profile of time allocation in the metabolic pattern of society : an internal biophysical limit to economic growth
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Manfroni, Michele (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Velasco-Fernández, Raúl (Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona) ;
Pérez-Sánchez, Laura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Bukkens, Sandra (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
We show that shortage of human activity may represent an internal constraint to economic growth as relevant as external resource and sink constraints. Human time is required, both inside and outside the market, to produce and consume the goods and services needed to sustain societal metabolism. [...]
2021 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107183
Ecological economics, Vol. 190 (Dec. 2021) , art. 107183
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An alternative to market-oriented energy models : Nexus patterns across hierarchical levels
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Di Felice, Louisa Jane (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Ripa, Maddalena (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
From a biophysical perspective, energy is central to the behaviour of social-ecological systems. Its ubiquity means that energy is entangled with nexus elements, including water, land, emissions and labour. [...]
2019 - 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.002
Energy policy, Vol. 126 (March 2019) , p. 431-443
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Structuring an integrated water-energy-food nexus assessment of a local wind energy desalination system for irrigation
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Serrano-Tovar, Tarik (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Peñate Suárez, Baltasar (Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias. Departamento del Agua) ;
Musicki, Ana (Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias. Departamento del Agua) ;
de la Fuente Bencomo, Juan A. (Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias. Departamento del Agua) ;
Cabello, Violeta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Giampietro, Mario (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Desalination is increasingly put forward as a sustainable local solution to water scarcity in combination with the exploitation of renewable energy sources. However, the complexity of the resource nexus entails the unavoidable existence of pros and cons across its various dimensions that can only be assessed at different scales of analysis. [...]
2019 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.422
Science of the total environment, Vol. 689 (November 2019) , p. 945-957
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Towards measuring the informal city: a societal metabolism approach
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Smit, Suzanne (Stellenbosch University. School of Public Leadership (South Africa)) ;
Musango, Josephine K. (Stellenbosch University. School of Public Leadership (South Africa)) ;
Kovacic, Zora (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals) ;
Brent, Alan C. (Victoria University of Wellington. Engineering and Computer Science (New Zealand))
The rapid growth of urban informal settlements, or slums, poses a particular challenge for balancing developmental and environmental goals. In South Africa, high levels of inequality, poverty, and unemployment contribute to widespread migration. [...]
2019 - 10.1111/jiec.12776
Journal of industrial ecology, Vol. 23, Issue 3 (June 2019) , p. 674-685
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