High-resolution Mapping of Material Stocks in the Built Environment
Join us for this hybrid UBDC webinar by Professor Zhenfeng Shao on monitoring urban material stock.
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Thursday 27 February 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Venue: Online (Zoom) / UBDC Conference Room, 7 Lilybank Gardens
Category: Academic events
Material stock refers to the fundamental materials that constitute the foundation of socio-economic metabolism, especially in the interactions between the natural environment and human society. A recent study published in Nature reveals that by 2020, the total amount of anthropogenic materials has surpassed the total mass of natural materials. The accounting of material stock in the built environment typically follows two classic models: the flow-driven model and the stock-driven model. This report will focus on the scientific issues on monitoring urban material stock with stock-driven model. And the methods on mapping building height, material stock and embodied Carbon will be introduced. The future work include investigating the relationship between built environment material stocks and service/well-being, and exploring carbon reduction strategies from the perspective of lifecycle building material embodied carbon emissions.
Zhenfeng Shao, a full professor and the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing in Wuhan university in China. And now an academic visitor of the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) at University of Glasgow.
This hybrid event can be attended in-person or online via Zoom.