Metabolism of Cities Living Lab Resources
San Diego State University Big Ideas - The center focuses on multi-disciplinary research focusing on the understanding of dynamic patterns, relationships, narratives, changes, and transitions of human activities, behaviors, and smart communication urban systems.
Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA) - Big Ideas seeks to combine, leverage and promote San Diego State’s distinctive strengths for the betterment of the world.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.
United Nations Environmental Program - Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities (GI-REC) - Operationalizing Urban Metabolism at the City Level.
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) USA - SDSN USA: A global initiative for the United States of America.
Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Youth - A global network to empower young people globally to create sustainable solutions through education, communities, and innovation.
Metabolism of Cities - A global network of people working together on systemically reducing net environmental impacts of cities and territories in a socially just manner and context-specific way using urban metabolism studies.
Metabolism of Cities Education Hub - The Metabolism of Cities Education Hub is a fairly new project that aims to provide engaging educational material around urban metabolism.
Metabolism of Islands - MoI is a network of scholars conducting policy-relevant research to support island economies achieve resource security and self-reliance, and build resilience to the impacts of climate change.
United Nations Environmental Program - Major Group of Children and Youth (MGCY) - A space for children and youth to engage meaningfully in
environmental governance and conservation processes across the UN system. Microplastics and Marine Litter Working Group.
Metabolism of Cities Living Lab Past Events
ISIE 2021 - Cities Beyond Borders: (Re)Thinking the Urban Metabolism
1st Crowdfight Symposium on the Science of Collaboration
Combatting COVID-19 with Black Communities
Oral Presentations produced by Big Data Analytics graduate students from the Department of Geography at SDSU, housed in the Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age (HDMA), showcase their work with MOC-LLAB from the academic year.
Strengthening Diversity and Deliberation in Climate Adaptation Planning: the case study of San Diego and Imperial County’s SDSU Sustainable Development Goals Tracking Dashboard by Harmit Chima
Social Media Listening during COVID-19: The case study of three Metropolitan Cities in Italy by Karenina Zaballa
Travel Distance and Cancer Care Among Rural Cancer Patients in the US/Mexico Border Region by Harrison Yang
