Journal article
Comparing a territorial-based and a consumption-based approach to assess the local and global environmental performance of cities
Aristide Athanassiadis, Maarten Christis, Philippe Bouillard, An Vercalsteren, Robert H Crawford, Ahmed Z Khan
Journal of Cleaner Production | Elsevier | Published : 2018
Abstract
In the framework of pressing local and global environmental challenges it is essential to understand that cities are complex systems dependent on and linked to the rest of the world through global supply chains that embody an array of environmental flows. Cities are thus a complex articulation that intertwine local and global challenges which rely at their extended hinterland for their resource use and pollution emission. To assess the environmental sustainability of an urban area in a comprehensive manner, it is not only necessary to measure its local and direct environmental performance but also to understand and take into account its global and indirect environmental counterparts. This pa..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Aristide Athanassiadis was funded through a research fellowship (aspirant FNRS) from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research F.R.S.-FNRS, a WBI World excellency scholarship and a BRIC scholarship. In addition, parts of this research were also conducted in the framework of an IBGE-BIM project on the quantification of Brussels' urban metabolism. Maarten Christis is granted by a research project of the Flemish Policy Research Centre of Sustainable Materials Management (steunpunt SuMMa). We would also like to thanks all the reviewers for their valuable comments that enables to enhance the quality of this paper.