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

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F26%3AKWU8R7RY" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/26:KWU8R7RY - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85205324066&doi=10.1016%2fj.ecolecon.2024.108397&partnerID=40&md5=c24cd35cec9f7cc70a2337c56fafbd49" target="_blank" >https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85205324066&doi=10.1016%2fj.ecolecon.2024.108397&partnerID=40&md5=c24cd35cec9f7cc70a2337c56fafbd49</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108397" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108397</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This study outlines a conceptual framework linking a conceptualization of agency in urban metabolism studies with a systems-based perspective. To this aim, we engage with contributions to socio-metabolic studies, notably from social ecology, that are not directly concerned with the urban dimension but explicitly question how systems and actors shape each other and how social practices can influence the distribution of resource flows and stocks and their interdependencies. Based on those contributions, we identify three critical axes of investigation that help track implicit uses of the concept of “agency” in urban metabolism studies and constitute the pillars of our proposed framework: (1) characterizing structures comprising urban social-ecological systems – understood as patterns of connections among elements and subsystems – as actors, (2) identifying the chains of events that such actors influence by exerting their agentic capacities, and (3) associating those same actors with definite agentic dimensions, i.e., specific modalities of agency. By drawing on methods from computational linguistics, text mining, and semantic network analysis, we extract concepts cognate to “urban metabolism” from a relevant body of research literature. Through our framework, we show how such concepts define forms of agency that can be ascribed to structural components of urban social-ecological systems. © 2024

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

This study outlines a conceptual framework linking a conceptualization of agency in urban metabolism studies with a systems-based perspective. To this aim, we engage with contributions to socio-metabolic studies, notably from social ecology, that are not directly concerned with the urban dimension but explicitly question how systems and actors shape each other and how social practices can influence the distribution of resource flows and stocks and their interdependencies. Based on those contributions, we identify three critical axes of investigation that help track implicit uses of the concept of “agency” in urban metabolism studies and constitute the pillars of our proposed framework: (1) characterizing structures comprising urban social-ecological systems – understood as patterns of connections among elements and subsystems – as actors, (2) identifying the chains of events that such actors influence by exerting their agentic capacities, and (3) associating those same actors with definite agentic dimensions, i.e., specific modalities of agency. By drawing on methods from computational linguistics, text mining, and semantic network analysis, we extract concepts cognate to “urban metabolism” from a relevant body of research literature. Through our framework, we show how such concepts define forms of agency that can be ascribed to structural components of urban social-ecological systems. © 2024

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Ecological Economics

ISSN

0921-8009

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

227

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

1-14

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85205324066