Comment on article “Is There a Metabolism of an Urban Ecosystem?”by Golubiewski

摘要

The paper has a tendency to misunderstand the intentions of UM researchers, and makes incorrect assertions about what UM studies are trying to achieve. It was difficult to follow the reasoning behind asser tions such as "Proponents of UM assert that because it makes explicit the resource/waste pressures of a city, it constitutes an ecological assessment" and "With such statements, UM research aims to connect ecology and economics." These are not apparent from the UM literature. It is well understood that fully connecting ecology and economics requires some form of inte grated assessment, with UM as a key component (e.g., Fung and Kennedy 2005).