Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human Habitat
The complexity of urban areas has motivated the search for integrative approaches. This paper addresses three topics—human habitat, urban metabolism, and urban entropy—to explore their links within the context of urban territory and sustainability. The lack of approaches, outlooks, and synergies mot...
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| author | José Alejandro Barón-Hernández José Alfonso Baños-Francia Peter Rijnaldus Wilhelmus Gerritsen Sandra Quijas |
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| description | The complexity of urban areas has motivated the search for integrative approaches. This paper addresses three topics—human habitat, urban metabolism, and urban entropy—to explore their links within the context of urban territory and sustainability. The lack of approaches, outlooks, and synergies motivates the search for an integrated conceptual framework, what I originated as a review of published works to contribute an interdisciplinary and multiscale outlook. From reviewing 41 articles, published from 1960 to 2020, definitions were extracted, original concepts were identified, synthetic definitions were formulated, and basic elements were identified to be integrated into a first synthetic approach, both illustrative and schematic. Eighteen binding key concepts, which were derived from 83 definitions, were incorporated into the proposed conceptual framework. We suggest that the human habitat, urban metabolism, and urban entropy are strongly interrelated, confirming the utility of the proposed conceptual framework and showing the potential to generate methodological approaches that integrate one or several conceptual elements that comprise it. Demonstrating the explicit bond between definitions, concepts, and components integrated systematically into the proposed conceptual framework is innovative in the field of scientific investigation, considering its applicability to public policy, resource management, or sustainable urban planning. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a8cca676974043d389fc32a811b5e7fa2024-12-27T14:59:48ZengMDPI AGWorld2673-40602024-11-01541101111910.3390/world5040055Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human HabitatJosé Alejandro Barón-Hernández0José Alfonso Baños-Francia1Peter Rijnaldus Wilhelmus Gerritsen2Sandra Quijas3Doctorado en Ciencias en Biosistemática, Ecología y Manejo de Recursos Naturales y Agrícolas (BEMARENA), Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Jalisco, MexicoCentro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Jalisco, MexicoDepartamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Centro Universitario de la Costa Sur, Universidad de Guadalajara, Autlán de Navarro 48900, Jalisco, MexicoLaboratorio de Biodiversidad y Servicios Ecosistémicos, Centro Universitario de la Costa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta 48280, Jalisco, MexicoThe complexity of urban areas has motivated the search for integrative approaches. This paper addresses three topics—human habitat, urban metabolism, and urban entropy—to explore their links within the context of urban territory and sustainability. The lack of approaches, outlooks, and synergies motivates the search for an integrated conceptual framework, what I originated as a review of published works to contribute an interdisciplinary and multiscale outlook. From reviewing 41 articles, published from 1960 to 2020, definitions were extracted, original concepts were identified, synthetic definitions were formulated, and basic elements were identified to be integrated into a first synthetic approach, both illustrative and schematic. Eighteen binding key concepts, which were derived from 83 definitions, were incorporated into the proposed conceptual framework. We suggest that the human habitat, urban metabolism, and urban entropy are strongly interrelated, confirming the utility of the proposed conceptual framework and showing the potential to generate methodological approaches that integrate one or several conceptual elements that comprise it. Demonstrating the explicit bond between definitions, concepts, and components integrated systematically into the proposed conceptual framework is innovative in the field of scientific investigation, considering its applicability to public policy, resource management, or sustainable urban planning.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/5/4/55conceptsflowtransformationurban systemsystematic review |
| spellingShingle | José Alejandro Barón-Hernández José Alfonso Baños-Francia Peter Rijnaldus Wilhelmus Gerritsen Sandra Quijas Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human Habitat World concepts flow transformation urban system systematic review |
| title | Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human Habitat |
| title_full | Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human Habitat |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human Habitat |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human Habitat |
| title_short | Towards a Conceptual Approach on the Connections of Urban Metabolism and Entropy with the Human Habitat |
| title_sort | towards a conceptual approach on the connections of urban metabolism and entropy with the human habitat |
| topic | concepts flow transformation urban system systematic review |
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