| Popis: |
For his settlements homo sapiens has developed, over thousands of years, technical equipment to support and ensure sustenance of water, energy, biomass and construction materials, to maintain the flows and stocks of these goods and to manage the disposal of waste. This technical equipment, a prosthetic outer envelope of the biological skin of humans, evolved in urbanization to a complex artificial physiological system of densely settled and highly mobile human societies. The byproduct of globalization is a net of urban systems embracing Planet Earth. It is the anthroposphere with its own technical metabolism (Baccini and Brunner in Metabolism of the Anthroposphere. MIT Press, Cambridge MA 2012a). |
