LOCI
Place du Levant 1/L5.05.02
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Daniela Perrotti
Professeure
Daniela Perrotti is Professor of Landscape at the UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning. Her research is an inquiry into the potential of urban metabolism theory and models to advance evidence-based understanding of the relations that urban communities establish with natural resources. Her work positions itself distinctively in the urban metabolism scientific landscape by operating along two novel lines of research.
The first concentrates on the establishment of more comprehensive metabolic knowledge frameworks to analyze the links between the biophysical foundations of socioeconomic development, natural capital and human wellbeing through a ‘service’ perspective.
The second provides a critical revision of the ‘urban metabolism’ paradigm through novel modes of inquiry and ‘thicker’ scientific descriptions of resource use patterns and dynamics that can better express the complexity of nature-society relations in cities.
Both lines of research include retrospective evaluations of previously conducted research as well as a set of pilot projects on the co-design of new urban metabolism models and decision support systems involving scientists from social and natural science disciplines and public/industry stakeholders.
Daniela serves/has served as Principal Investigator and co-Investigator for several research projects on integrated urban metabolism modelling approaches, in collaboration with public/industry and academic partners in several countries. These include research partnership in the UK (Universities of Reading, Portsmouth, Leeds), Finland (Aalto University), Netherlands (Wageningen University and Research Centre, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions AMS), Denmark (University of Southern Denmark, Life Cycle Engineering), France (French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA Versailles-Grignon, School of Landscape Architecture Versailles, Institut d’Aménagement et d’Urbanisme University of Lille), Italy (Polytechnic University of Milan), Spain (Polytechnic University UP of Valencia), China (Xi’an Jiaotong University), Brazil (Federal University of Mato Grosso and Federal University of Goias), Algeria (Polytechnic School of Architecture and Urbanism EPAU) and India (University of Delhi).
Daniela currently leads the Urban Metabolism interdisciplinary research team at UCLouvain, involving postdoctoral and doctoral researchers and early-career scientists under her supervision as well as collaborations with leading academics, practitioners and decision-makers in Belgium, across Europe and in the Global South.
Supervised postdoctoral and PhD researchers / early-career scientists
Ursula-Crisy Cardenas-Mamani – PhD project title: Urban Metabolism for advanced Nature-based Solutions: an integrated framework to support the development of a shared knowledge base and combined dynamic modelling approaches (UMaNS). Funding: Fonds Spéciaux de Recherche FSR UCLouvain and F.R.S.-FNRS Aspirant/Research Fellow.
Daniel Otero Peña - PhD project title: Infrastructure, Topography and Landscape: Designing landscape infrastructure strategies through the spatialization of urban metabolism flows. Funding: UCLouvain/Science & Technology Sector (Research Assistant position LOCI).
Giulia Scialpi - PhD project title: Urban mining from food and soil waste: impact assessment, policy support, and sustainable business model for the Belgian construction industry. Funding: UCLouvain/Science & Technology Sector (Research Assistant position LOCI).
Dr. Kai Whiting – Postdoc project title: A social metabolism framework for the integration of energy, material and ecosystem services (MetabolismeMES). Funding: Fonds Spéciaux de Recherche FSR UCLouvain and F.R.S.-FNRS Chargé de Recherches/Postdoctoral Researcher.
Andrea Aragone – Research project title: Groen met Grijs/Green With Grey: Ecological benefits from the desealing of industrial plateforms in Flanders. Funding: Flemish Region, Department Omgeving/Environment, programme Proeftuinen ontharding (Desealing Living Labs).
Visiting PhD researchers
Ruichang Mao - University of Southern Denmark, SDU Life Cycle Engineering - Project Title: Urban Metabolism: A material stock- and flow-based analysis on future resource demand and environmental impacts of Chinese cities.Visiting PhD researcher 2019. Funding visiting scholarship: EU Horizon 2020 COST Action “Mining the European Anthroposphere” (MINEA) Short-Term Scientific Missions.
Mazia Chaker-Aissi - Algiers Polytechnic School of Architecture and Urbanism EPAU - Project Title: Analyzing the performance of Urban Symbiosis strategies at the local level in Algiers: potential for optimizing energy demand and CO2 emission abatement. Visiting PhD researcher 2019. Funding visiting scholarship: Algeria Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
Co-supervision and PhD Advisory Committees
Christina Bristow - University of Reading UK, School of the Built Environment. Project title: A taxonomy of cities: Classifying urban metabolism typologies towards understanding infrastructural dynamics. Co-supervision. Funding PhD: UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council EPSRC.
Roberta Pistoni - Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles, France, and Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Project title: Contribution of landscape design in the energy transition of France and the Netherlands: concepts, practices, recommendations. Advisory committee.
Behzad Bamdad Mehrabani – UCLouvain LOCI. Project title: Evaluation of the resilience of a road network in the light of new technologies in the field of mobility. Advisory committee.
2021
Chaker, Mazia ; Berezowska-Azzag, Ewa ; Perrotti, Daniela. Exploring the performances of urban local symbiosis strategy in Algiers: potential for energy use optimization and CO2 emission mitigation. In: Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 292, no. 1, p. 125850 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125850.
2021
Scialpi, Giulia ; Perrotti, Daniela. The Use of Urban Biowaste and Excavated Soil in the Construction Sector: a Literature Review. In: Waste Management and Research, Vol. Online First, no. First Published February 2021, p. 1-12 (2021). doi:10.1177/0734242X211000430 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2020
Perrotti, Daniela ; Stremke, Sven. Can urban metabolism models advance green infrastructure planning? Insights from ecosystem services research. In: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Vol. 47, no. 4, p. 678-694 (2018). doi:10.1177/2399808318797131.
2020
Perrotti, Daniela ; Katherine Hyde ; Otero Pena, Daniel. Can water systems foster commoning practices? Analysing leverages for self-organization in urban water commons as social–ecological systems.. In: Sustainability Science, Vol. 15, no. 3, p. 781–795 (2020). doi:10.1007/s11625-020-00782-1.
2020
Taleghani, Mohammad ; Montazami, Azadeh ; Perrotti, Daniela. Learning to Chill: The Role of Design Schools and Professional Training to Improve Urban Climate and Urban Metabolism. In: Energies, Vol. 13, no.9, p. 2243 (2020). doi:10.3390/en13092243.
2020
Perrotti, Daniela. Toward an agentic understanding of the urban metabolism. In: Urban Geography, Vol. Published Online, no. Novembre 2020, p. 1-20 (2020). doi:10.1080/02723638.2020.1848760.
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Evaluating urban metabolism assessment methods and knowledge transfer between scientists and practitioners: A combined framework for supporting practice-relevant research. In: Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Vol. 46, no. 8, p. 1458-1479 (2019). doi:10.1177/2399808319832611.
2019
Galan, Juanjo ; Perrotti, Daniela. Incorporating Metabolic Thinking into Regional Planning: The Case of the Sierra Calderona Strategic Plan. In: Urban Planning, Vol. 4, no.1, p. 1-20 (2019). doi:10.17645/up.v4i1.1549.
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Response to Article: Reconnecting with nature: Developing urban spaces in the age of climate change [version 1; peer review]. In: Emerald Open Research, Vol. 1, no. 2, p. 1-19. doi:10.21956/emeraldopenres.14026.r26337.
2017
Voskamp, Ilse M. ; Stremke, Sven ; Spiller, Marc ; Perrotti, Daniela ; van der Hoek, Jan Peter ; Rijnaarts, Huub H. M.. Enhanced Performance of the Eurostat Method for Comprehensive Assessment of Urban Metabolism: A Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam : Comprehensive Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam. In: Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 21, no.4, p. 887-902 (2016). doi:10.1111/jiec.12461.
2013
Perrotti, Daniela. Paysage-infrastructure ou de la dimension infrastructurelle du paysage. In: Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale et Urbaine, Vol. 28, no.1, p. 140-142 (2013).
2013
Perrotti, Daniela ; Henrion, Stanislas. The Notion of Landscape Acceptability as a Key Factor in Integrated Energy-Landscape Policy. In: Environmental Practice, Vol. 15, no.1, p. 5-18 (2013). doi:10.1017/S1466046612000518.
2012
Perrotti, Daniela. Conceiving the (everyday) landscape of energy as a transcalar infrastructural device. In: Projets de paysage, Vol. 7, no.1, p. - (2012).
2012
Perrotti, Daniela. Ruralité urbaine. Les territoires périurbains du Parc Agricole Sud de Milan à l’épreuve de l’Expo Milan 2015 [Urban Rurality. The Periurban Areas of Milan Agricultural Park toward Expo Milan 2015]. In: Environnement urbain / Urban Environment, Vol. 6, no.1, p. 100-117 (2012).
2010
Perrotti, Daniela. Une stratégie analytique et opérationnelle pour les transformations du territoire métropolitain de Vérone: paysage-infrastructure . In: Projets de Paysage, Vol. 4, no.1, p. 1-8 (2012).
2009
Locardi, Chiara ; Occhipinti, Fausta ; Perrotti, Daniela. Seminar Report “Bernard Lassus and Gilles Clément. Debate over Landscape”. In: Projets de Paysage, Vol. 2, no.1, p. 1-8 (2009).
2021
Singh, Pardeep ; Verma, Pramit ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Srivastava, K. K.. Environmental Sustainability and Economy, Elsevier USA, Elsevier USA, 2021. 9780128221884. 320 p (Accepté/Sous presse).
2011
Perrotti, Daniela. The Alta Murgia National Park. A Landscape Perspective / Il Parco Nazionale dell’Alta Murgia. Un paesaggio , Preface by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Edizioni L'Orbicolare - Italian Ministry of the Environment: Milan, Italy, 2011. 9788895061795 .
2021
Perrotti, Daniela ; Verma, Pramit ; Srivastava, K. K. ; Singh, Pardeep. Challenges and opportunities at the crossroads of Environmental Sustainability and Economy Research. In: Singh, P., Verma, P., Perrotti, D. & Srivastava, K. K. (eds.), Environmental Sustainability and Economy, Elsevier: Cambridge, MA, 2021. 9780128221884 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2021
Scialpi, Giulia ; Perrotti, Daniela. From concepts to action: urban metabolism and resilience thinking. In: Lehmann S., Resilient Communities. A Collection of Short Essays on the Adaptive Capacity of Cities, D Editore: Rome, 2021. 9788894830170 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2021
Perrotti, Daniela. Studying the metabolism of resilient communities: urban practices, micronarratives, and their agency. In: Carta, M., Perbellini, M and Lara-Hernandez, J.A., Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter: Towards an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities., Springer: Dordrecht, 2021. 978-3-030-03189-3 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2021
Perrotti, Daniela. Urban Metabolism: towards a holistic practice of community resilience. In: Melis, A, Catalogue 17th International Architecture Exhibition. Italian Pavilion, D Editore : Rome, 2021. 9788894830118 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2020
Perrotti, Daniela. Landscape-Infrastructure: formal-informal Entanglements across political Ecologies of Resource Use. In: Antonino Di Raimo, Steffen Lehmann (eds.), Informality Now. Informal Settlements through the lens of Sustainability., Routledge: New York / London, 2020. 9780367354770.
2020
Mohareb, Eugene ; Perrotti, Daniela. Measuring Reading’s resource consumption. An application of urban metabolism. In: Dixon, Tim and Farrelly, Lorraine, Reading 2050. A smart and sustainable city?, University of Reading: Reading, UK, 2020, p. 48-55. 9788895061795.
2020
Perrotti, Daniela. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers and the research agenda ahead. In: Verma, P, Singh, P., Singh, R., Raghubanshi, A., Urban Ecology: Emerging Patterns and Social-Ecological Systems, Elsevier USA: Cambridge MA, 2020, 17-32. 9780128207307. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-820730-7.00002-1.
2019
Perrotti, Daniela ; Iuorio, Ornella. Green Infrastructure in the Space of Flows: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Bridge Environmental Performance and User’s Wellbeing. In: Lemes de Oliveira, Fabiano; Mell, Ian, Planning Cities with Nature: Theories, Strategies and Methods (Cities and Nature book series (CITIES)), Springer, 2019, p. 265-277. 978-3-030-01865-8. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01866-5_18.
2017
Perrotti, Daniela. Piece of (art)work: Infrastructure. In: Roberta Amirante, Carmine Piscopo, Paola Scala, Beauty According to the Toad. Venustas, Architecture, Market, Democracy (Inhabiting the future), CLEAN: Neaple, Italy, 2017, p. 45-46. 978-88-8497-260-6.
2015
Courtonne, Jean-Yves ; Chatzimpiros, Petros ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Vernay, Anne-Lorène ; Blouin, Manuel. Le métabolisme énergétique d’un territoire [The Energie Metabolism of a Region]. . In: Buclet, Nicolas (eds.), Essai d’écologie territoriale [Essay on Territorial Ecology] (CNRS Alpha), CNRS Editions: Paris - France, 2015, p. 179-204. 978-2-271-08887-1.
2015
Perrotti, Daniela. Of Other (Energy) Spaces. Protected areas and everyday landscapes of energy in the southern Italian region of Alta Murgia. . In: Renewable Energies and European Landscapes, Springer, 2015, p. 193-215. 9789401798426. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9843-3_11.
2015
Barataud, F ; Barles, S. ; Billen, G. ; Blouin, M. ; Bognon, S. ; Bonaudo, T. ; Buclet, N. ; Chatzimpiros, P. ; Cerceau, J. ; Courtonne, J.-Y. ; Debuisson, M. ; Dupre, D. ; Garnier, J. ; Herbelin , A. ; Maillefert, M. ; Marty, P. ; Metereau, R. ; Pech, P. ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Talandier, M. ; Vernay , A.L.. Pourquoi un livre sur Aussois?. In: Buclet, Nicolas (eds.), Essai d’écologie territoriale [Essay on Territorial Ecology] (CNRS Alpha), CNRS Editions: Paris - France, 2015, p. 7-11. 978-2-271-08887-1.
2015
Barataud, F. ; Barles, S. ; Billen, G. ; Blouin, M. ; Bognon, S. ; Bonaudo, T. ; Buclet, N. ; Chatzimpiros, P. ; Cerceau, J. ; Courtonne, J.-Y. ; Debuisson, M. ; Dupre, D. ; Garnier, J. ; Herbelin , A. ; Maillefert, M. ; Marty, P. ; Metereau, R. ; Pech, P. ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Talandier, M. ; Vernay , A.L.. Quel avenir pour l’écologie territoriale. In: Buclet, Nicolas (eds.), Essai d’écologie territoriale [Essay on Territorial Ecology] (CNRS Alpha), CNRS Editions: Paris - France, 2015, p. 205-209. 978-2-271-08887-1.
2014
Perrotti, Daniela. Architecture of the Networks in Contemporary Territories. Network Taxonomy and Operational Strategies. In: Cozza, C and Valente, I, The Arrow of the Time. Research and Projects on Infrastructure Architecture, PEARSON: Milan, Italy, 2014, p. 290-295. 9788861599932.
2014
Perrotti, Daniela ; Pouteau, Sylvie. Faire la ville avec l’énergie du vivant [Making the City with the Energy of Living Systems]. In: Chomarat-Ruiz, Catherine (eds.), Nature Urbaine en Projets [Urban Nature in Projects], Archibooks + Sautereau Éditeu: Paris - France, 2014, p. 74-94. 978-2357332621.
2014
Perrotti, Daniela. Landscape as Energy Infrastructure: Ecologic Approaches and Aesthetic Implications of Design. In: Revising Green Infrastructure, CRC Press - Taylor&Francis, 2014, p. 71-90. 9781482232202. doi:10.1201/b17639-6.
2011
Perrotti, Daniela. Mons Viminalis. The history of its landscape development. In: Mangone, Fabio and Perrotti, Daniela (eds.), The Viminale. A Palace at the Hearth of Italy’s Institutions (Italian Ministry of the Interior), L'orbicolare: Milan, 2011, p. 22-27. 978-88-95061-70-2.
2010
Perrotti, Daniela. The European Landscape: A Sustainable Infrastructure. In: Pedroli, Bas et al. (eds.), Living Landscape. The European Landscape Convention in research perspective, Bandecchi and Vivaldi : Pontedera, 2010, p. 147-151 . 978-88-8341-458-9.
2010
Perrotti, Daniela ; Locardi, Chiara. The Landscape-Infrastructure. A Multicriteria Analytic Approach for a Territorial Model of Development. The new pan-European Infrastructure Network into the Urban Transformations of Verona. In: Schwab, E. and Licka, L. (eds.), Landscape. Great Idea! X-LArch III, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences : Vienna, 2010, p. 6-11. 978-3-9502175-3-7.
2009
Perrotti, Daniela ; Anastacia, C. ; Knight, J.A.. Twelve blocks: towards a contemporary cathedral precinct. In: Pinto de Freitas, Rita, The Temple of the Sagrada Família: Urban icon and public space, Edicions ETSAB: Barcelona , 2009, p. 36-49. 9788460807544 8460807541.
2007
Perrotti, Daniela. La vulnerabilità degli strati del suolo.. In: Contin, A. & Sbacchi M. (eds.), Canicattì. Campagne abitate e paesaggi d’arte [Canicattì. Inhabited Lands and Art Landscapes], Alinea: Florence, 2007, p. 72-76. 978-8860552198.
2020
Otero Pena, Daniel ; Perrotti, Daniela ; Eugene Mohareb. Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: resource flows and stocks, geography, and informality in Mexico City. International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference ISIE Americas 2020-Industrial Ecology for Resilient & Sustainable Cities (Online, du 06/07/2020 au 08/07/2020).
2020
Perrotti, Daniela ; Cardenas Mamani, Ursula. Do Ecosystem Services contribute to the Urban Metabolism agenda? . AScUS Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability. (Online, du 03/06/2020 au 05/06/2020).
2020
Perrotti, Daniela. Materiality, Circulations and (other) Living Things: Why does Urban Metabolism matter to Landscape Research?. "Urban ecology and cultural heritage in the city" - XXVII conference in the series of garden art and historical dendrology. (University of Cracow, du 22/10/2020 au 23/10/2020).
2020
Perrotti, Daniela. Métabolisme urbain et paysage: défis, opportunités et applications.. Le Grand Paysage comme Ressource(s) - POPSU Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence (Institut d’Urbanisme et d’Aménagement Régional Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France, 28/04/2020).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Advancing Nature-based Solutions through an Urban Metabolism approach: challenges and opportunities.. Conservation and Ecological Aspects of Landscape Architecture (Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland, 24/10/2019).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Cities of Flows: enhancing resilience through Urban Metabolism thinking. First International Symposium on Resilient Communities (2019) - Cluster for Sustainable Cities (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK, 29/07/2019).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Combining Socio-Economic Metabolism indicators with biophysical data: an integrated framework for supporting comparative Urban Metabolism studies across geographies. 13th Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology Socio-Economic Metabolism Section ISIE-SEM (Berlin, du 13/05/2019 au 15/05/2019).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Mining Urban Ecosystem Services to offset material and energy demand: towards an integrated assessment framework. MINEA COST ACTION Workshop: Prospecting urban minerals and evaluating the recoverability from buildings and infrastructure (Copenhagen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 25/10/2019).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Métropole Européenne de Lille: Mise en perspective par le territoire Bruxellois. POPSU Métropole Europeenne de Lille (Lille, France, 19/03/2019).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela ; Whiting, Kai ; Carmona, Luis Gabriel. Re-envisioning circular economy policy in line with a service perspective. EU Raw Materials Week - Sustainability from a Service Perspective Workshop (Brussels, European Commission, 22/11/2019).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. Urban metabolism narratives in the digital turn: becoming real-world and real-time.. Internationale Bauausstellung - IBA LAB N°7: Digitale Stadt? (Heidelberg, Internationale Bauausstellungen - IBA, Germany, du 20/09/2019 au 21/09/2019). In: Internationalen Bauausstellung IBA_LAB No7 »DIGITALE STADT?«, IBA: Heidelberg, 2019, 46-53.
2019
Perrotti, Daniela ; Eugene Mohareb. Using Urban Metabolism to identify drivers of precarity in fuel-poor households. The case of Reading, UK.. 10th International Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology - Industrial Ecology for Eco-civilization (Beijing, Tsinghua University, China, du 07/07/2019 au 11/07/2019).
2019
Perrotti, Daniela. What are the ingredients of a successful science-practice knowledge exchange in Urban Metabolism research? The case of Helsinki, Finland. Urban metabolism in policy and practice. A global discussion (Brussels, Chair Circular Metabolism Brussels Capital Region, 26/11/2019).
2018
Perrotti, Daniela. Challenges and opportunities for urban metabolism research. Newton Fund Researchers Link Workshop “Urban resilience and urban regeneration”, British Council (Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China, du 27/06/2018 au 29/06/2018).
2018
Perrotti, Daniela. Cities in the Global South: The Water-Food-Energy Nexus and Urban Metabolism. Development Studies Research Seminar, Development Studies Group, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, (Portsmouth, UK, 27/11/2018).
2018
Perrotti, Daniela. Mitigating fuel poverty in small UK cities. An urban metabolism approach. 55th World Congress International Federation of Landscape Architects IFLA “Biophilic City, Smart Nation, and Future Resilience" (Singapore, du 18/07/2018 au 21/07/2018).
2018
Perrotti, Daniela. The Story of my Encounter with the Urban Metabolism. 14th research seminar of the Cluster for Sustainable Cities, University of Portsmouth (Portsmouth, UK, 05/09/2018).
2018
Mohareb, Eugene ; Perrotti, Daniela. The Urban Metabolism of Reading . Reading 2050 Lecture Series - University of Reading, School of the Built Environment (Reading, UK, 18/07/2018).
2018
Perrotti, Daniela. Urban Metabolism Models for Sustainable Green Infrastructure Planning. Urban Metabolism Research Seminar Federal University of Mato Grosso UFMT, Rondonopolis, Brazil (Rondonopolis, Brazil, du 11/07/2018 au 12/07/2018).
2017
Perrotti, Daniela. An Urban Metabolism Approach to Bridge Environmental Performance and User’s Wellbeing.. Newton Fund Researchers Link Workshop “Re-Naturing Cities: Theories, Strategies Methodologies”. British Council (Federal University of Goiás, Goiania, Brazil, du 10/07/2017 au 13/07/2017).