Entropy and Cities: A Bibliographic Analysis towards More Circular and Sustainable Urban Environments.

ABSTRACT: Cities are critical to a sustainable future for our planet; still, the construction and operation of cities rely on intensive resource and energy use and transformation, leading to the generation of waste, effluents, and pollution, representing negative externalities outside and inside the city. Within every process, transformation implies the use of energy and the increase of entropy. In an urban system, the transformation of energy and materials will trigger the creation of entropic landscapes, mainly in the informal city and in unguarded natural landscapes, even hundreds of kilometers away, which generates substantial economic, social, and environmental impacts. In this sense, cities are significant contributors to the environmental crisis. Upstream, degradation of landscapes and ecosys

SUBMITTER: Rondinel-Oviedo DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10048483 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature