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Urban environment — key message 5

SOER 2010 Message (Deprecated) Published 28 Nov 2010

Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems

Cities can be considered as 'ecosystems', albeit with a high technical component. Their urban metabolism is an open and dynamic system, which consumes, transforms and releases materials and energy, develops and adapts to changes, and interacts with humans and other ecosystems. Therefore they should be analysed and managed as other ecosystems.

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems

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