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City-level decoupling: urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions [1]

Building upon previous work of the International Resource Panel on Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth, this report examines the potential for decoupling at the city level. While the majority of the worlds population now live in cities and cities are where most resource consumption takes place, both the pressures and potentials to find ways to reconcile economic growth, wellbeing and the sustainable use of natural resources will therefore be greatest in cities. Analysing the role of cities as spatial nodes where the major resource flows connect as goods, services and wastes, the reports focus is how infrastructure directs material flows and therefore resource use, productivity and efficiency in an urban context. It makes the case for examining cities from a material flow perspective, while also placing the city within the broader system of flows that make it possible for it to function.

Publication Date: 
17/04/2013
Mark Swilling [2], Blake Robinson [3], Simon Marvin [4], Mike Hodson. [5]
UNEP [6]
Tags:
Urbanisation [7], Infrastructure Development [8], Ecosystem Services [9], Environment [10], Developing Countries [11], India [12], Economic Development [13]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/blake-robinson
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