Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of Graph Search.
This lecture explores systemic environmental assessment and analysis, focusing on urban metabolism as a lens to understand cities' physical/material functioning. It covers industrial ecology, Marxist ecology, urban ecology, and the circular economy, discussing accounting methods, circular economy policies in Brussels, Paris, and London, and the importance of material stocks in urban areas.