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Approach to Urban Metabolism of Almassora Municipality, Spain, As a Tool for Creating a Sustainable City

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Approach to Urban Metabolism of Almassora Municipality, Spain, As a Tool for Creating a Sustainable City

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dc.contributor.author López Chofre, Irene es_ES
dc.contributor.author Gielen, Eric es_ES
dc.contributor.author Palencia Jiménez, José Sergio es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2020-02-21T21:01:23Z
dc.date.available 2020-02-21T21:01:23Z
dc.date.issued 2018 es_ES
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10251/137578
dc.description.abstract [EN] Achieving sustainable growth is a priority in the Europe 2020 Strategy. For this purpose, the 20-20-20 objective was adopted: reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20%, increase the percentage of renewable energy sources by 20% and improve energy efficiency 20%. In order to achieve this, the focus must be placed on cities. That is why the Community Funds Regulations establish the obligation to dedicate at least 5% of European Regional Development Fund resources toward measures for integrated and sustainable urban development. The Operational Program of Sustainable Growth 2014¿2020, intends to support cities¿ initiatives for changes towards an economy with low carbon emissions, to increase the use of renewable energy sources, to modernize our transport sector and to promote energy efficiency. A metabolic approach to the urban phenomenon tries to understand the city as a complex system that incorporates and transforms materials, water and energy, to ensure the different functions performed by the city, whether social, environmental or economic. The knowledge of a city¿s urban metabolism provides a powerful tool for analysis, planning and management, moving towards the goal of sustainability. Our research aims to model the city¿s urban metabolism in Almassora (Valencian community, Spain) and to demonstrate its usefulness as a methodological proposal for integrating this framework into the process of developing a strategy towards a sustainable city. The current metabolic profile of the city was generated calculating CO2 emissions and energy consumption for different urban forms of the city. This model gives us a tool to better understand city functioning in terms of urban metabolism, from the transformation of resources (input) and the efficiency of the different urban functions of the city, until waste generation (output). This paper offers a first reflection about how an urban metabolism approach can be useful as a planning tool to design strategies to reach sustainability. es_ES
dc.language Inglés es_ES
dc.publisher WIT Press es_ES
dc.relation.ispartof WIT Transactions on the Built Environment (Online) es_ES
dc.rights Reserva de todos los derechos es_ES
dc.subject Urban Metabolism es_ES
dc.subject Sustainable City es_ES
dc.subject Planning Tool es_ES
dc.subject Circular Economy es_ES
dc.subject Almassora es_ES
dc.subject Spain es_ES
dc.subject.classification URBANISTICA Y ORDENACION DEL TERRITORIO es_ES
dc.title Approach to Urban Metabolism of Almassora Municipality, Spain, As a Tool for Creating a Sustainable City es_ES
dc.type Artículo es_ES
dc.identifier.doi 10.2495/UG180201 es_ES
dc.rights.accessRights Abierto es_ES
dc.contributor.affiliation Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Urbanismo - Departament d'Urbanisme es_ES
dc.description.bibliographicCitation López Chofre, I.; Gielen, E.; Palencia Jiménez, JS. (2018). Approach to Urban Metabolism of Almassora Municipality, Spain, As a Tool for Creating a Sustainable City. WIT Transactions on the Built Environment (Online). 179:209-219. https://doi.org/10.2495/UG180201 es_ES
dc.description.accrualMethod S es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversion https://doi.org/10.2495/UG180201 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpinicio 209 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpfin 219 es_ES
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion es_ES
dc.description.volume 179 es_ES
dc.identifier.eissn 1743-3509 es_ES
dc.relation.pasarela S\367830 es_ES


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