Nature-based units as building blocks for resource recovery systems in cities

Van Hullebusch, Eric D. (avtor), Bani, Aida (avtor), Carvalho, Miguel (avtor), Cetecioglu, Zeynep (avtor), De Gusseme, Bart (avtor), Di Lonardo, Sara (avtor), Djolic, Maja (avtor), Van Eekert, Miriam (avtor), Griessler Bulc, Tjaša (avtor), Haznedaroglu, Berat Z. (avtor), Istenič, Darja (avtor), Kisser, Johannes (avtor), Krzeminski, Pawel (avtor), Melita, Sanna (avtor), Pavlova, Dolja (avtor), Płaza, Elżbieta (avtor), Schoenborn, Andreas (avtor), Thomas, Geraldine (avtor), Vaccari, Mentore (avtor), Wirth, Maria (avtor), Hartl, Marco (avtor), Zeeman, Grietje (avtor)

Cities are producers of high quantities of secondary liquid and solid streams that are still poorly utilized within urban systems. In order to tackle this issue, there has been an ever-growing push for more efficient resource management and waste prevention in urban areas, following the concept of a circular economy. This review paper provides a characterization of urban solid and liquid resource flows (including water, nutrients, metals, potential energy, and organics), which pass through selected nature-based solutions (NBS) and supporting units (SU), expanding on that characterization through the study of existing cases. In particular, this paper presents the currently implemented NBS units for resource recovery, the applicable solid and liquid urban waste streams and the SU dedicated to increasing the quality and minimizing hazards of specific streams at the source level (e.g., concentrated fertilizers, disinfected recovered products). The recovery efficiency of systems, where NBS and SU are combined, operated at a micro- or meso-scale and applied at technology readiness levels higher than 5, is reviewed. The importance of collection and transport infrastructure, treatment and recovery technology, and (urban) agricultural or urban green reuse on the quantity and quality of input and output materials are discussed, also regarding the current main circularity and application challenges.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: circularity challenges, nature-based solutions, supporting units, urban streams, circular cities
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.02 - Pregledni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: ZF - Zdravstvena fakulteta ; FGG - Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Poslano v recenzijo: 30.09.2021
• Datum sprejetja članka: 30.10.2021
• Datum objave: 09.11.2021
• Leto izida: 2021
• Št. strani: Str. 1-52
• Številčenje: Vol. 13, iss. 22, 3153
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-133174
• UDK: 502.131.1:711.4
• ISSN pri članku: 2073-4441
• DOI: 10.3390/w13223153
• COBISS.SI-ID: 84887555
• Datum objave v RUL: 15.11.2021

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Water
• Skrajšan naslov: Water
• Založnik: Molecular Diversity Preservation International - MDPI
• ISSN: 2073-4441
• COBISS.SI-ID: 36731653

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.
• Začetek licenciranja: 09.11.2021

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: izzivi krožnosti, naravne rešitve, podporne enote, mestni tokovi, krožna mesta

Projekti

• Financer: EC - European Commission
• Program financ.: COST Action
• Številka projekta: CA17133
• Naslov: Implementing nature-based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city