Urbanization of Planet Earth
Evolution of the Anthroposphere
Metabolism of the Anthroposphere
Scope and Purpose of the book
The metabolism of the individual human being
The metabolism of human societies
Metabolism of the private household
The metabolism of a city
The metabolism of a region
Key phenomena of modern anthropogenic metabolism
Learning from metabolic accidents and collapses in history
Learning by adapting the anthroposphere
Forestry and timber consumption, a prototype of sustainability
Managing oligotrophic ecosystems within an eutrophic anthroposphere
Metabolic problems of a subsistence economy
Worldwide Waste
The great risk of the developed countries
An overview of methodical approaches for metabolic studies
Structuring with activities
Activities and Values
Processes, Goods and Substances
Designing material systems for metabolic studies
Exemplifying with paper and its metabolic idiosyncrasies
Quantification and assessment using material flow analysis (MFA)
MFA methodology
Modeling of Metabolic Systems
Physical and mathematical formulation of metabolic systems
Examples of software to model MFA/SFA
Evaluation of metabolic processes
SFA based assessment methods
Methods including both MFA and SFA level
MFA based assessment methods
Conclusions regarding evaluation methods
Outlook
Status Quo of MFA/SFA
Future developments
Regions as anthropogenic systems
About the human condition, the polis and geographical scales
Arguments for choosing new urban systems
Introducing the Model Region METALAND
Metabolic Status of METALAND described by activities
TO NOURISH and TO CLEAN
TO RESIDE&WORK and TO TRANSPORT&COMMUNICATE
Conclusions on the typology of material systems for urban systems
Preliminaries to the design of anthropospheres
Case studies for the design of metabolic systems
Phosphorus management
Urban Mining
Designing waste management
More mobility with less traffic
Summary and Conclusions
Conclusions based on a synoptic analysis
Summarizing the essentials of metabolic designing
Acknowledgement
References
Glossary
Index