Urban metabolism – Dr.habil. Luis Inostroza

Metabolism & Urbanisation? New publication in Cities

January 11th, 2021Dr.habil. Luis0 Comments

I put my bet into scientific integration, conceptual and operational tunning, transdisciplinary integration, rather than compartmentalization of knowledge. I have been for long trying to integrate urban metabolism with urbanisation research, using a materialistic – i.e. technomass based – approach. This last piece, of which we are very happy, is an attempt in that direction. It provides a path to understand not only how urbanisation might arise from the metabolism of the urban ecosystem, but also showcase how this is rather a planetary process, highly hierarchically organised. I am always happy to share a copy, just write me an email.

From urban climate to energy consumption

April 6th, 2017Dr.habil. Luis0 Comments

Energy Buildings (Q1, 5 years Impact Factor 3,666 Elsevier) has published our article on urban climate and energy consumption entitled: “From urban climate to energy consumption. Enhancing building performance simulation by including the urban heat island effect“. This publication is the result of my research visit to the Catholic University of the North, located in the Atacama desert in Chile. I have spent three months there researching on urban heat islands (UHI) with my colleague and friend Dr Massimo Palme. We worked hard during that time to bring together the urban and the building scales, bridging two research communities. The …

International workshop: Size of the Society, Debrecen Hungary

January 31st, 2017Dr.habil. Luis0 Comments

I attended this interesting workshop at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, with a presentation on material stock transfers between natural and urban ecosystems. I have spent wonderful days attending this extremely interesting, nice and warm workshop on metabolism at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The event was organized by István Kuti, CSc, Dr. Mihály Dombi, Dr. Andrea Bauerné Gáthy and Dr. Andrea Karcagi-Kováts. Thank you very much for all your efforts to make the stay pleasant and warm. After this nice experience, I re-assure my preference for small, well-focused scientific meetings, rather than large fancy international conferences. I have presented …

WMCAUS 2017 PRAGUE – CONFERENCE SESSION ON URBAN HEAT ISLAND

December 31st, 2016Dr.habil. Luis0 Comments

With my friend and colleague Dr. Massimo Palme, we had an excellent and very successful session on urban heat island in Prague during the WMCAUS 2017 conference. We had six fascinating presentations UHI at the urban scale: measurement methods and indicators Simulation of UHI at urban/building scale Effects of UHI in public health Impacts of UHI on energy consumption We would like to thank our colleagues and friends from Argentina, Chile, Italy, Poland, Romania and Spain for joining our symposium. The WMCAUS conference has already published the full contribution in an indexed …

Special Issue: The Size of the Society – Linkages Between Material Flows and Stocks of Socio-economic Metabolism

December 31st, 2016Dr.habil. Luis0 Comments

We have prepared a Special Issue on Linkages Between Material Flows and Stocks of Socio-economic Metabolism, to be published in during 2017-2018 in our journal CASES. Developed in collaboration with Dr. Mihaly Domby from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, our idea is to gather together manuscripts attempting a joint analysis of material stocks and flows.