H2020REPAIR.EU

In short, REPAiR focuses on how the design of physical structures and their social and urban metabolisms, including health, economy, well-being and happiness, are affected by material flows and their environmental impacts and will thereby contribute to improving the quality of life in Europe and building a greener society... The concept of Urban Metabolism is particularly strong in supporting improvements in urban and regional planning. It can, in fact, be used to develop policy support tools capable of assessing the impact of development scenarios against normative ideas on sustainable development. This applies not only in energy and resource use terms, but also in relation to most technical and socio-economic processes in urbanised territories related to growth, the production of energy and products, elimination of waste as well as to related spatial qualities and the quality of life. In order to make the concept of urban metabolism more effectively implementable, REPAiR addresses..