Recently, a second article with results from the Urban Pulse project has been published Open Access in the Journal of Resources Conservation and Recycling: Space-time Information Analysis for Resource-Conscious Urban Planning and Design: A stakeholder based identification of urban metabolism data gaps. Currently, urban metabolism analyses are hampered by lack of data and they are performed on a scale level that does not match urban planning and...

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From October 15th till October 20th, NRGlab member Ilse Voskamp attended the Habitat III conference in Quito, Ecuador. Ilse presented the results of the Urban Pulse research at the conference exhibition, in a joint booth from AMS and Wageningen University and Research. Habitat III is the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, which is held once every 20 years (Habitat I: Vancouver, 1976; Habitat II: Istanbul,...

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Recently, the Journal of Industrial Ecology published the first article that presents results from the Urban Pulse project. In the article, titled Enhanced Performance of the Eurostat Method for Comprehensive Assessment of Urban Metabolism – A Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam we propose modifications to the Eurostat method to enhance its performance for comprehensive analysis of urban metabolism. The majority of European urban MFA...

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Recently, a video has been released on some of the the key findings of the Urban Pulse project in Amsterdam. The animation focuses on the consumption of bottled drinking water as a means to reveal some of the complexities of the urban metabolism from source to sink. Watch the video...

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From 9 till 11 December NRGlab researcher Ilse Voskamp attended the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment conference (SASBE) in Pretoria, South Africa. There she presented selected results of the Urban Pulse research project (2014 -2015), one of the three kick-start projects of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS). In her SASBE presentation, Ilse discussed what information on resource flows is needed by utility...

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