EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Urban Metabolism in Transition: Integrating Space, Function, Services and Practices for the Next Generation of Metabolic Studies
Daniela Perrotti serves as Lead Guest Editor of a Resources, Conservation and Recycling special issue integrating spatial, functional, service-based and practice-oriented approaches to urban metabolism.
Editorial activity information
AUTHORS
Daniela Perrotti; Kangkang Tong; Ilona M. Otto; Bhartendu Pandey; Dominik Wiedenhofer
DATE
ACTIVITY TYPE
Special Issue
JOURNAL OR PUBLISHER
Resources, Conservation and Recycling — Elsevier
RESEARCH AXIS
Cross-Axis
THEMES
Urban metabolism; Space; Ecosystem services; Social practices; Post-growth
METHODS
Special-issue editorial coordination; peer review; interdisciplinary synthesis
Editorial activity overview
This editorial initiative brings together research that expands urban metabolism beyond conventional city-wide stock-and-flow accounting. Its organising themes—space, function, services and practices—reflect four areas in which the field is developing new conceptual and methodological depth.
The special issue highlights spatially explicit analysis, the functions and services generated by resource systems, and the practices and agents through which flows are organised. It therefore creates a common forum for industrial ecology, planning, geography, design and social-ecological research.
Daniela Perrotti serves as Lead Guest Editor of this Resources, Conservation and Recycling special issue from 2025–present. Her role builds on the Urban Metabolism Lab’s own cross-axis programme. The initiative is intended to encourage methods that remain quantitatively robust while becoming more attentive to place, agency, wellbeing and implementation.