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Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems
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https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-9022
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Cities and their growing resource demands threaten global resource security. This study identifies the hotspots of imports in cities to redirect resources to where they are most needed, based on the system overall resource effectiveness to maximise the use of all resources available. This paper develops a taxonomy of resource-use behaviour based on the clustering patterns of resource utilisation and conversion across interconnected urban systems. We find high tendencies of consumer-like behaviour in a multi-city system because tertiary sectors are concentrated in urban areas while the producing sectors are located outside and hence, results in high utilisation but low output. The clustering taxonomy emphasises that the absence of producers in the system causes cities to rely on the imported resources for growth. Cities can be resource-effective by having a more diversified industrial structure to extend the pathways of resource flows, closing the circularity gap between the suppliers and consumers.
Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8779-8224
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-9022
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6925-8040
Cities and their growing resource demands threaten global resource security. This study identifies the hotspots of imports in cities to redirect resources to where they are most needed, based on the system overall resource effectiveness to maximise the use of all resources available. This paper develops a taxonomy of resource-use behaviour based on the clustering patterns of resource utilisation and conversion across interconnected urban systems. We find high tendencies of consumer-like behaviour in a multi-city system because tertiary sectors are concentrated in urban areas while the producing sectors are located outside and hence, results in high utilisation but low output. The clustering taxonomy emphasises that the absence of producers in the system causes cities to rely on the imported resources for growth. Cities can be resource-effective by having a more diversified industrial structure to extend the pathways of resource flows, closing the circularity gap between the suppliers and consumers.
Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8779-8224
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8518-9022
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6925-8040
Cities and their growing resource demands threaten global resource security. This study identifies the hotspots of imports in cities to redirect resources to where they are most needed, based on the system overall resource effectiveness to maximise the use of all resources available. This paper develops a taxonomy of resource-use behaviour based on the clustering patterns of resource utilisation and conversion across interconnected urban systems. We find high tendencies of consumer-like behaviour in a multi-city system because tertiary sectors are concentrated in urban areas while the producing sectors are located outside and hence, results in high utilisation but low output. The clustering taxonomy emphasises that the absence of producers in the system causes cities to rely on the imported resources for growth. Cities can be resource-effective by having a more diversified industrial structure to extend the pathways of resource flows, closing the circularity gap between the suppliers and consumers.
Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems
npj Urban Sustain
Tan, Ling Min (author) / Arbabi, Hadi (author) / Densley Tingley, Danielle (author) / Brockway, Paul E. (author) / Mayfield, Martin (author)
2021-04-27
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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