Data mining for urban metabolism of African cities | Yumna Parker

Field l Discipline

• Sustainable Development
• Industrial Ecology
• Energy & Fuels

Expertise

• Urban metabolism
• Systems thinking

Summary

In order to address sustainable urban issues, it is vital to understand what and how resources move and are consumed within a city. Urban metabolism is a conceptual framework that examines resources as flows within an urban system. However, existing frameworks do not necessarily cater for cities with limited available data, such as African cities. Energy is required for almost all functional processes in a city, however it is estimated that over 600 million people do not have access to electricity in Africa. Majority of urban energy metabolism studies have been conducted in cities situated in the global north, with few studies having been conducted on energy metabolism of African cities where limited data availability is prevalent. In the age of information, an alternate opportunity to gain valuable insights to energy issues facing African cities is data mining, where existing data can be leveraged to extract alternate information that could provide insight into the energy metabolism of African cities and expand on existing urban metabolism frameworks.

Supervision by

• Promotor: Prof. dr. K.S. (Klaus) Hubacek | Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society - IREES | ESRIG, University of Groningen.
• Co-promotor: Dr. F. (Franco) Ruzzenenti | Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society - IREES | ESRIG, University of Groningen.

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