By Brantley Liddle, Fred Moavenzadeh (auth.), Fred Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, Peter Baccini (eds.)
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"Future towns: Dynamics and Sustainability, is an edited quantity that involves theoretical and analytical articles. … The editors are confident that regardless of the entire affects towns are making on traditional methods, towns are usually not inevitably in clash with the surroundings. … the booklet provides articles with a hugely educational concentration that are meant to end up worthwhile to scholars and researchers who're drawn to city metabolism and its sustainability linkages." (Xuemei Bai, magazine of commercial Ecology, Vol. 7 (2), 2003)
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XYLOIKOS simulate s the regional timber flow and the related energy flow over a 200-year period (from 1900-2100). The calibration and validation (as far as possible ) was done with 20 th century data . For further details see Miiller (1998). Standard Scenario The main assumptions in the standard scenario are: logistic population growth (Figure 6) logistic growth of the building stock (area) per inhabitant (Figure 7) average life-time of building s is 100±30 y; average lifetime of interiors 30± lOy.
I *y- I, mainly fossil fuels). -I *y- I) are an order of magnitude lower. -I *y- I) through combustion of fossil fuels and fire wood , metabolization of food, and the incineration of wood wastes and plastics. To produce 70 kg of food carbon, plants assimilate 430 kg of carbon; 30 kg become animal feed, sewage and sludge; and 30 kg of carbon from fossil fuels is used. This equals an efficiency rate of about 15 percent. Most agricultural carbon is respired by cattle and microorganisms in the soil (harvest residues and manure).
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