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In an urban area, materials such as products, water and energy are inputs which are emitted in the form of garbage, sewerage water, exhaust gas and exhaust heat as the results of urban activities (Hanaki and Ichinose 1995). This procedure could be called “urban metabolism”, likened to the metabolism of a creature. The reduction of environmental load caused by urban activities is, therefore, optimal for the urban metabolic structure. Nowadays heat energy for space heating or hot water supply can be collected from sewerage water by heat pumps and from garbage incineration plants; the effective use of these kinds of heat energy closes the energy flow in urban areas and reduces the environmental load and the wastage of resources.
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Hanaki K, Ichinose T (1995) Relief of Impacts of Urban Activities on Global Environment. In: Murai S (eds.) Toward Global Planning of Sustainable Use of the Earth. Elsevier Science B.V.
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Ichinose, T., Kawahara, H., Hanaki, K., Ito, T., Matsuo, T. (1998). Feasibility Study on Effective Utilization of Sewage Heat in Urban Area with GIS. In: Breuste, J., Feldmann, H., Uhlmann, O. (eds) Urban Ecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88583-9_29
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