Required Readings

You will be assigned to one of the two approaches, urban metabolism or ecosystem services. You need to read the two articles listed under approach assigned to you.

Urban Metabolism

Golubiewski, N. (2012) Is there a metabolism of an urban ecosystem? An ecological critique. Ambio 41, 751-764. DOI 10.1007/s13280-011-0232-7

Pinho, P., Oliveira, V., Cruz, S.S. Barbosa, M. (2013) Metabolic impact assessment for urban planning. Journal of Environmental Planning & Management 56(2), 178-193. DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2012.657953

Ecosystem Services

Summers, J.K., Smith, L.J., Case, J.L. & Linthurst, R.A. (2012) A review of the elements of human well-being with an emphasis on the contribution of ecosystem services. Ambio 41, 327-340. DOI 10.1007/s13280-012-0256-7

Norgaard, R.B. (2010) Ecosystem services: From eye-opening methphor to complexity blinder. Ecological Economics 69, 1219-1227. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.009

Class Preparation

I have assigned one of two contemporary ecological approaches for building community sustainability to you, urban metabolism or ecosystem services. The required readings provide a starting point to evaluate these two contemporary ecological frameworks. The required readings include one reference that is generally positive and one that is generally critical of each approach. After reading each of the two required articles for your approach, each member of your group should select two different articles from the Additional Resources that deals with your approach. You will need to make sure that there are no duplications in your group. Make sure that your group as a whole reads some "positive" articles and some "critical" articles from the Additional Resources list. But overall, I have tried to include a variety of resources in the additional resources and you should feel free to use any of them. The objective is for your group to become "expert" in the approach so that you can explain it to others -- including examples of how it has been used, the strengths of the approach, and any challenges or limitations that it presents. I want you to provide a balanced view, not argue for or against the approach.

1. Come to class with your ideas about how to explain the approach in general and the overall advantages and disadvantages of the approach, based on the required readings for your group.

2. Also bring a summary of the key points in the two additional articles that you read. Post these on the discussion board prior to class so that you can share them in the time I give you to put together your presentation.

3. When class starts, I will give you about 30 or 40 minutes to get together as a group so that you can create a short group presentation of the key ideas that your group develops and develop some questions to spur a class discussion.

4. Then each group will make a brief (10 minutes or so) presentation and lead a class discussion of the potential value (or not) of this framework for building sustainability. You will have about 30 minutes for the presentation and discussion.

Additional Resources - Urban Metabolism

Agudelo-Vera, C., Mels, A., Keesman, K., & Rijnaarts, H. (2012). The urban harvest approach as an aid for sustainable urban resource planning. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 16(6), 839-850. doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00561.x

Baker, L. (2012). The evolution of great world cities: Urban wealth and economic growth. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 16(6), 964-964. doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00558.x

Bristow, D. N., & Kennedy, C. A. (2013). Urban metabolism and the energy stored in cities. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 17(5), 656-667. doi:10.1111/jiec.12038

Broto, V.C., Allen, A. & Rapoport, E. (2012) Interdisciplinary perspectives on urban metabolism. Journal of Industrial Ecology 16(6), 851-861. DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00556.x

Caprotti, F., & Romanowicz, J. (2013). Thermal eco-cities: Green building and urban thermal metabolism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(6), 1949-1967. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12049

Codoban, N. & Kennedy, C.A. (2008) Metabolism of neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Planning & Development 134(1), 21- 31. DOI: 10.1061/_ASCE_0733-9488_2008_134:1_21_

Conke, L. S., & Ferreira, T. L. (2015). Urban metabolism: Measuring the city's contribution to sustainable development. Environmental Pollution, 202, 146-152. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2015.03.027

Cui, X., Wang, X. & Feng, Y. (2019) Examining urban metabolism: A material flow perspective on cities and their sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production 214:767-781. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.021

Curie, P.K. & Musango, J.K. (2017) African urbanization: Assimilating urban metabolism into sustainability discourse and practice. Journal of Industrial Ecology 21(5):1262-1276. DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12517.

Dodson, J. R., Hunt, A. J., Parker, H. L., Yang, Y., & Clark, J. H. (2012). Elemental sustainability: Towards the total recovery of scarce metals. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 51(0), 69-78. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2011.09.008

Ehrenfeld, J. R. (2009). Understanding of complexity expands the reach of industrial ecology. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 13(2), 165-167. doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2009.00118.x

Ergun, D., & Gorgolewski, M. (2015). Inventorying Toronto’s single detached housing stocks to examine the availability of clay brick for urban mining. Waste Management, 45, 180-185. doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2015.03.036

Fragkou, M. C., Salinas Roca, L., Espluga, J., & Gabarrell, X. (2014). Metabolisms of injustice: Municipal solid-waste management and environmental equity in barcelona's metropolitan region. Local Environment, 19(7), 731-747. doi:10.1080/13549839.2013.792045

Golubiewski, N. (2012). Is there a metabolism of an urban ecosystem? an ecological critique. AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment, 41(7), 751-764. doi:10.1007/s13280-011-0232-7

Gustafson, S., Heynen, N., Rice, J. L., Gragson, T., Shepherd, J. M., & Strother, C. (2014). Megapolitan political ecology and urban metabolism in southern appalachia. Professional Geographer, 66(4), 664-675. doi:10.1080/00330124.2014.905158

Hamlin, C. (2007). The city as a chemical system?: The chemist as urban environmental professional in france and britain, 1780-1880. Journal of Urban History, 33(5), 702-728.

Kaushal, S., McDowell, W., & Wollheim, W. (2014). Tracking evolution of urban biogeochemical cycles: Past, present, and future. Biogeochemistry, 121(1), 1-21. doi:10.1007/s10533-014-0014-y

Kennedy, C. A., Stewart, I., Facchini, A., Cersosimo, I., Mele, R., Chen, B., et al. (2015). Energy and material flows of megacities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19), 5985-5990. doi:10.1073/pnas.1504315112

Kenway, S. J., Lant, P. A., Priestley, A., & Daniels, P. (2011). The connection between water and energy in cities: A review. Water Science & Technology, 63(9), 1983-1990. doi:10.2166/wst.2011.070

Kissinger, M. & Stossel, Z. (2019) Towards an interspatial urban metabolism analysis in an interconnected world. Ecological Indicators 101:1077-1085 doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.11.022

Marvin, S., & Medd, W. (2006). Metabolisms of obecity: Flows of fat through bodies, cities, and sewers. Environment & Planning A, 38(2), 313-324. doi:10.1068/a37272

McManus, P., & Gibbs, D. (2008). Industrial ecosystems? the use of tropes in the literature of industrial ecology and eco-industrial parks. Progress in Human Geography, 32(4), 525-540. doi:10.1177/0309132507088118

Miller, L. A., Ramaswami, A., & Ranjan, R. (2013). Contribution of water and wastewater infrastructures to urban energy metabolism and greenhouse gas emissions in cities in india. Journal of Environmental Engineering, 139(5), 738-745. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000661

Moore, J., Kissinger, M. & Rees, W.E. (2013) An urban metabolism and ecological footprint assessment of Metro Vancouver. Journal of Environmental Management 124, 51-61. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.009

Newell, J. P., & Cousins, J. J. (2015). The boundaries of urban metabolism. Progress in Human Geography, 39(6), 702-728. doi:10.1177/0309132514558442

Niza, S., Rosado, L. & Ferrao, P. 2009) Urban metabolism: Methodological advances in urban material flow accounting based on the Lisbon case study. Journal of Industrial Ecology 13(3), 384 - 405. DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2009.00130.x

Opschoor, H. (2011). Local sustainable development and carbon neutrality in cities in developing and emerging countries. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 18(3), 190-200. doi:10.1080/13504509.2011.570800

Paul, R., Kenway, S., McIntosh, B. & Mukheibir, P. (2018) Urban metaboism of Bangalore City:A water mass balance analysis. Journal of Industrial Ecology 22(6):1413-1424. DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12705.

Poruschi, L. (2015). Sustainable urban metabolism. Urban Policy & Research, 33(1), 123-125. doi:10.1080/08111146.2014.967443

Robèrt, K.,2, Broman, G. I. 1., & Basile, G. (2013). Analyzing the concept of planetary boundaries from a strategic sustainability perspective: How does humanity avoid tipping the planet? Ecology & Society, 18(2), 80-88. doi:10.5751/ES-05336-180205

Rochat, D., Binder, C. R., Diaz, J., & Jolliet, O. (2013). Combining material flow analysis, life cycle assessment, and multiattribute utility theory. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 17(5), 642-655. doi:10.1111/jiec.12025

Romero, E., & Ruiz, M. C. (2014). Proposal of an agent-based analytical model to convert industrial areas in industrial eco-systems. Science of the Total Environment, 468–469(0), 394-405. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.049

Saravanan, V. S., Mavalankar, D., Kulkarni, S. P., Nussbaum, S., & Weigelt, M. (2015). Metabolized-water breeding diseases in urban india: Sociospatiality of water problems and health burden in Ahmedabad City. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 19(1), 93-103. doi:10.1111/jiec.12172

Shu-Li Huang, & Chia-Wen Chen. (2009). Urbanization and socioeconomic metabolism in Taipei. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 13(1), 75-93. doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2008.00103.x

Villarroel Walker, R., Beck, M. B., Hall, J. W., Dawson, R. J., & Heidrich, O. (2014). The energy-water-food nexus: Strategic analysis of technologies for transforming the urban metabolism. Journal of Environmental Management, 141, 104-115. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.01.054

Wachsmuth, D. (2012). Three ecologies: Urban metabolism and the society-nature opposition. Sociological Quarterly, 53(4), 506-523. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01247.x

Wachsmuth, D. (2012). Three ecologies: Urban metabolism and the society-nature opposition. Sociological Quarterly, 53(4), 506-523. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01247.x

Xiao, L., Lin, T., Chen, S., Zhang, G., Ye, Z., & Yu, Z. (2015). Characterizing urban household waste generation and metabolism considering community stratification in a rapid urbanizing area of china. Plos One, 10(12), 1-16. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145405

Zhang, Y. (2013). Urban metabolism: A review of research methodologies. Environmental Pollution, 178, 463-473. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.03.052

Zhang, Y., Xia, L., Fath, B. D., Yang, Z., Yin, X., Su, M., et al. (2016). Development of a spatially explicit network model of urban metabolism and analysis of the distribution of ecological relationships: Case study of beijing, china. Journal of Cleaner Production, 112, 4304-4317. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.052

Zhang, Y., Yang, Z., & Yu, X. (2015). Urban metabolism: A review of current knowledge and directions for future study. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(19), 11247-11263. doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b03060

Zhou, C., Huang, H., Cao, A., & Xu, W. (2015). Modeling the carbon cycle of the municipal solid waste management system for urban metabolism. Ecological Modelling, 318, 150-156. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.027

Additional Resources - Ecosystem Services

Balvanera, P., Siddique, I., Dee, L., Paquette, A. et al. (2014) Linking biodiversity and ecosystem services : Current uncertainties and the necessary next steps. BioScience 64(1), 49-57. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bit003

Blok, A. (2013) Urban green assemblages: An ANT view on sustainable city building projects. Science & Technology Studies 26(1), 5-24.

Bolund, P., & Hunhammar, S. (1999). Ecosystem services in urban areas. Ecological Economics, 29(2), 293-301. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8009(99)00013-0

Botequilha-Leitao, A. (2012) Eco-polycentric urban systems: An ecological region perspective for network cities. Challenges 3, 1-42. doi:10.3390/challe3010001

Dempsey, J. & Robertson, M.M. (2012) Ecosystem services: Tensions, impurities, and points of engagement within neoliberalism. Progress in Human Geography 36(6), 758-779. DOI: 10.1177/0309132512437076

Ernstson, H., & Sörlin, S. (2013). Ecosystem services as technology of globalization: On articulating values in urban nature. Ecological Economics, 86(0), 274-284. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.09.012

Felson, A.J., Pavao-Zuckerman, M., Carter, T., Montalto, F. et al. (2013) Mapping the design process for urban ecology researchers. BioScience 63(11), 854-865. doi:10.1525/bio.2013.63.11.4

Fremier, A.K., DeClerck, F.A.J., Bosque-Perez, N.A., Carmona, N.E. et al. (2013) Understanding spatiotemporal lags in ecosystem services to improve incentives. BioScience 63(6), 472-482. doi:\0.\525/hio.2013.63.6.9

Gaston, K.J., Avila-Jimenez, M.L. & Edmondson, J.L. (2013) Managing urban ecosystems for goods and services. Journal of Applied Ecology. 10 pp. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12087

Gómez-Baggethun, E., & Barton, D. N. (2013). Classifying and valuing ecosystem services for urban planning. Ecological Economics, 86(0), 235-245. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.08.019

Grimm, N.B., Faeth, S.H., Bolubiewski8, N.E., Redman, C.L. et al. (2008) Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 319(5864), 756-760. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20053310

Gual, M. A., & Norgaard, R. B. (2010). Bridging ecological and social systems coevolution: A review and proposal. Ecological Economics, 69(4), 707-717. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.07.020

Kronenberg, J. & Hubacek, K. (2013) Could payments for ecosystem services create an "ecosystem service curse"? Ecology & Society 18(1):10 http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05240-180110

McAfee, K. (2012) The contradictory logic of global ecosystem services markets. Development & Change 43(1), 105-131. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01745.x

Muradian, R., Arsel, M., Pellegrini, L., Adaman, F. et al. 2013) Payments for ecosystems services and the fatal attraction of win-win solutions. Conservation Letters 6(4), 274-279. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00309.x

Petter, M., Mooney, S., Maynard, S.M., Davidson, A. et al. (2013) A methodology to map ecosystem functions to support ecosystem services assessments. Ecology & Society 18(1): 31. http://dx. doi.org/10.5751/ES-05260-180131

Pickett, S. T. A., Cadenasso, M. L., Grove, J. M., Nilon, C. H., Pouyat, R. V., Zipperer, W. C., et al. (2001). Urban ecological systems: Linking terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas. Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics, 32, 127.

Portman, M.E. (2013) Ecosystem services in practice: Challenges to real world implementation of ecosystem services across multiple landscapes - a critical review. Applied Geography 45, 185-192. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.09.011

Sanchez-Azofeifa, G. A., Pfaff, A., Robalino, J. A., & Boomhower, J. P. (2007). Costa rica's payment for environmental services program: Intention, implementation, and impact; el programa de pago de servicios ambientales de costa rica: Intención, implementación e impacto. Conservation Biology, 21(5), 1165-1173. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00751.x

Schipanski, M. E., Barbercheck, M., Douglas, M. R., Finney, D. M., Haider, K., Kaye, J. P., et al. (2014). A framework for evaluating ecosystem services provided by cover crops in agroecosystems. Agricultural Systems, 125(0), 12-22. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2013.11.004

Tomalty, R. (2009) The ecology of cities. Alternatives 35(4), 19-21.

Yang, W., Dietz, T., Liu, W., Luo, J. & Liu, J. (2013) Going beyond the millennium ecosystem assessment: An index system of human dependence on ecosystem services. PlosOne 8(5), e-64581. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064581