Desiree Muscas
Thesis project title: Improvement of the environmental and socio-economic performance of the urban green supply chain
abstract:
In a world that is increasingly focused on achieving urban sustainability, Urban Metabolism (UM) studies are recently gaining popularity as an alternative tool to interpret urban area phenomena on city, regional, and country scales (Kennedy and Hoornweg, 2012; Perrotti and Stremke, 2020). Firstly introduced by Wolman in 1965 (Zanjani et al., 2020), the Urban Metabolism concept considers the city as a complex organism composed of the processes through which it imports, produces, and exports materials, energy, and other resources (and expels waste) to ensure its maintenance and growt.
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