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  1. Design insights for resource-efficient and community-inclusive urban spaces: Learning from the metabolism of alternative resource governance systems in Brussels

    Article • Cities, June 2026, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  2. Resource-sensitive and community-inclusive urban archetypes to enhance the applicability of urban metabolism frameworks by design practitioners

    Article • Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability, April 2026, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Daniela Perrotti

  3. Situating the contribution of nature-based solutions in informal settlements within the context of urban metabolism: lessons from selected informal settlements in Ghana

    Article • Local Environment, March 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Daniela Perrotti

  4. The application of a data framework to assess the contribution of nature-based solutions to urban metabolism in informal settlements of Kumasi, Ghana

    Article • SN Social Sciences, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  5. Urban biowaste-based building materials for a growing city: the case of Brussels Capital Region

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, November 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Daniela Perrotti

  6. Mapping agency in urban metabolism research. A systematic characterisation of urban-level resource-use assessment models based on levels of engagement with agents

    Article • Ecological Modelling, July 2025, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  7. A data framework for assessing nature-based solutions' contribution to the urban metabolism of informal settlements

    Article • Sustainability Science, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  8. Natura Naturae. Unsettling ecologies or why the urban should remain a contested field GandyMatthew, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space, MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2022, 432 pp.: ISBN: 9780262046282

    Article • Dialogues in Urban Research, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Daniela Perrotti

  9. Metabolic thinking in planning and designing urban landscapes: practitioners’ perspectives on agency

    Article • European Planning Studies, May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Daniela Perrotti

  10. Metabolism of interconnected cities: A review of the literature and analytical framework

    Article • Resources Conservation and Recycling, May 2025, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  11. Characterizing informality in urban resource management: Towards an integrated framework of urban metabolism and informal flows

    Article • Land Use Policy, April 2025, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  12. Linking systems to agencies in urban metabolism studies: A conceptual framework and computational analysis of research literature

    Article • Ecological Economics, January 2025, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  13. An integrated urban metabolism and ecosystem service assessment: The case study of Lima, Peru

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  14. A review of the contribution of nature-based solutions to the urban metabolism of the informal settlements

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, June 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Daniela Perrotti

  15. Role of Urban Metabolism Assessments in Addressing Food Security through Urban Agriculture in Informal Settlements: A Critical Review

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, June 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Daniela Perrotti

  16. Leveraging the No Net Land Take Policy through Ecological Connectivity Analysis: The Role of Industrial Platforms in Flanders, Belgium

    Article • Sustainability, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Daniela Perrotti

  17. Adaptability of buildings: to what extent do design-support models consider context-related factors? A literature review

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, November 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Daniela Perrotti

  18. Sustainability transitions require an understanding of smaller cities

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, October 2023, Wiley

    Daniela Perrotti

  19. High-Resolution Mapping of Material Stocks in Belgian Road Infrastructure: Material Efficiency Patterns, Material Recycling Potentials, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Opportunities

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, August 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Daniela Perrotti

  20. Circular economy in the valorisation of food and other biowaste: case studies in small and medium-sized enterprises in the Belgian construction sector

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  21. An urban hospital base79,2d on the principles of circular economy: the case of Joseph Bracops hospital

    Article • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, September 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Daniela Perrotti

  22. The place of space in urban metabolism research: Towards a spatial turn? A review and future agenda

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, May 2022, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  23. Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, April 2022, Wiley

    Daniela Perrotti

  24. Understanding the contribution of ecosystem services to urban metabolism assessments: An integrated framework

    Article • Ecological Indicators, March 2022, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  25. Studying the Metabolism of Resilient Communities: Urban Practices, Micronarratives, and Their Agency

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  26. The Peccioli Charter, the New Constitution of the Nation of the Italian Resilient Communities

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  27. The use of urban biowaste and excavated soil in the construction sector: A literature review

    Article • Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Daniela Perrotti

  28. Exploring the performances of urban local symbiosis strategy in Algiers, between a potential of energy use optimization and CO2 emissions mitigation

    Article • Journal of Cleaner Production, April 2021, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  29. Challenges and opportunities at the crossroads of Environmental Sustainability and Economy research

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  30. Environmental Sustainability and Economy

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  31. Landscape–Infrastructure

    Article • December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Daniela Perrotti

  32. Toward an agentic understanding of the urban metabolism: a landscape theory perspective

    Article • Urban Geography, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Daniela Perrotti

  33. Learning to Chill: The Role of Design Schools and Professional Training to Improve Urban Climate and Urban Metabolism

    Article • Energies, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Daniela Perrotti

  34. Can water systems foster commoning practices? Analysing leverages for self-organization in urban water commons as social–ecological systems

    Article • Sustainability Science, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  35. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers, and the research agenda ahead

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Daniela Perrotti

  36. Evaluating urban metabolism assessment methods and knowledge transfer between scientists and practitioners: A combined framework for supporting practice-relevant research

    Article • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, September 2019, SAGE Publications

    Daniela Perrotti

  37. Incorporating Metabolic Thinking into Regional Planning: The Case of the Sierra Calderona Strategic Plan

    Article • Urban Planning, February 2019, Cogitatio

    Daniela Perrotti

  38. Green Infrastructure in the Space of Flows: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Bridge Environmental Performance and User’s Wellbeing

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  39. Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research

    Article • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Daniela Perrotti

  40. Enhanced Performance of the Eurostat Method for Comprehensive Assessment of Urban Metabolism: A Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam

    Article • Journal of Industrial Ecology, July 2016, Wiley

    Professor Jan Peter van der Hoek, Daniela Perrotti

  41. Of Other (Energy) Spaces

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Daniela Perrotti

  42. Chapitre V. Le métabolisme énergétique d'un territoire

    Article • January 2015, OpenEdition

    Daniela Perrotti

  43. Conclusion

    Article • January 2015, OpenEdition

    Daniela Perrotti

  44. Introduction

    Article • January 2015, OpenEdition

    Daniela Perrotti

  45. Landscape as Energy Infrastructure: Ecologic Approaches and Aesthetic Implications of Design

    Article • October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Daniela Perrotti

  46. Research Articles: The Notion of Landscape Acceptability as a Potential Key Factor in a New Integrated Approach to Energy-Landscape Policy

    Article • Environmental Practice, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Daniela Perrotti

  47. La ruralité urbaine : de plateforme d’expérimentation à lieu de la mise en scène d’un nouveau modèle de durabilité

    Article • Environnement urbain, January 2012, Consortium Erudit

    Daniela Perrotti

  48. Conceiving the (everyday) landscape of energy as a transcalar infrastructural device

    Article • Projets de paysage, January 2012, OpenEdition

    Daniela Perrotti

  49. Une stratégie analytique et opérationnelle pour les transformations du territoire métropolitain de Vérone : paysage-infrastructure

    Article • Projets de paysage, January 2010, OpenEdition

    Daniela Perrotti

  50. Note sul seminario « Bernard Lassus e Gilles Clément. Dibattito sul Paesaggio »

    Article • Projets de paysage, January 2009, OpenEdition

    Daniela Perrotti

  51. Paysage-Infrastructure ou de la dimension infrastructurelle du paysage : de l’historique de notion de paysage infrastructurel à la démarche paysagère Landscape (as) Infrastructure, vers l'élaboration de l'approche opérationnelle paysage-infrastructure ...

    Article • Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur

    Daniela Perrotti