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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "UN Environment Approach to Urban Metabolism in the G
 lobal South"
DTSTART:20180918T121500
DTEND:20180918T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Esteban Munoz\, Consultant to Cities Unit\, Economy Divisio
 n\, United Nations Environmental Program\nPassionate scientist dedicated t
 o the study of urban processes.He develops urban models for the representa
 tion of urban dynamics mainly in Python and R. He studied architecture and
  urban planning at the University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe (HsKA\; 20
 04-2008). He then worked for a year at the European Institute for Energy R
 esearch (EIFER) in Karlsruhe. In 2009\, he did a Masters at the HafenCity 
 University in Hamburg (HCU)\, the International Program: Resource Efficien
 cy in Architecture and Planning (REAP)\; he jumped then to urban metabolis
 m. He obtained his PhD in 2016 and while in his doctoral studies\, he work
 ed as a research fellow for the HafenCity University at the Technical Urba
 n Infrastructure Systems Group. During these years he developed spatial mi
 crosimulation models for estimation and forecasting of resources flows of 
 urban agglomerations. The aim of the research group is to deliver policy a
 dvice to the city of Hamburg in regard to future infrastructure investment
 . He also worked as a consultant for the International Financial Corporati
 on (IFC) and is currently working as a consultant for UN Environment.\nAbs
 tract:\nA significant share of all global direct anthropocentric environme
 ntal pressures can be attributed to cities. With their effects further inc
 reasing as urban populations continue to grow\, conventional urban plannin
 g addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation is proving inadequat
 e to achieve the well below 2 °C goal. Climate change mitigation & adapta
 tion actions of cities need to be understood as a co-benefit to sustainabl
 e development. In this seminar I present UN Environment’s contribution t
 o the discussion-- in form of a simulation model-- towards the accelerated
  transition of cities to a sustainable use of resources around the globe. 
 I argue in favor of a bottom-up micro-level integrated modeling approach\,
  able to capture behavioral changes. The Spatial Microsimulation Urban Met
 abolism (SMUM) model aims to quantify resource flows at a micro level with
  as little input-data as possible\, while simultaneously having the comput
 ational mechanisms to accommodate cities with advanced data collection sys
 tems. Unlike other tools that model policy impacts on a city-wide level\, 
 SMUM can provide insights on individual groups within the population\, bro
 ken down e. g. by income\, education\, household size or any other populat
 ion strata. In this seminar I describe in detail the computational steps d
 efined by the model as well as its pilot application to cities (Brussels\,
  Sorsogon\, Recife\, Cape Town) and with different sector focus.\n 
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