Print Email Facebook Twitter A literature review and categorisation of sustainability-aimed urban metabolism indicators Title A literature review and categorisation of sustainability-aimed urban metabolism indicators: a context, indicator, mechanism, outcome analysis Author Song, Y. (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design) van Timmeren, A. (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design) Wandl, Alex (TU Delft Environmental Technology and Design) Date 2019 Abstract Urban metabolism has been advanced as an approach to quantifying energy and resource use and supply in the modern urban system. It is a multidisciplinary approach focused on providing insight into the behaviour of cities for drafting effective proposals for a more humane and ecologically responsible future.Urban metabolism indicators could play an important role in promoting the science and practice of urban metabolism for sustainability. This paper presents a systematic review of literature centred on defining sustainabilityaimed urban metabolism indicators to improve the integration of urban metabolism and urban sustainability. Furthermore, this paper concentrates on two indicator sets (emergy synthesis and material flow analysis [MFA]), examining the relationship between these indicators and the three dimensions of sustainability (environment, economy, and society) in the literature. The paper thus buildsa bridge between urban metabolism and urban sustainability in the hope that urban metabolism indicators can be used to measure and assess urban sustainability. Subject urban metabolismurban metabolism indicatorsustainabilityCIMO approach To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b9a446d8-a972-4385-85b0-73c627498cc8 DOI https://doi.org/10.15196/RS090103 ISSN 2063-9538 Source Regional Statistics, 9 (1), 54-71 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Y. Song, A. van Timmeren, Alex Wandl Files PDF rs_song_timmeren_wandl.pdf 240.96 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b9a446d8-a972-4385-85b0-73c627498cc8/datastream/OBJ/view