The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationInternational Resource Panel
dc.contributor.otherSwilling, Mark
dc.contributor.otherHajer, Maarten
dc.contributor.otherBaynes, Tim
dc.contributor.otherBergesen, Joe
dc.contributor.otherLabbé, Françoise
dc.contributor.otherMusango, Josephine
dc.contributor.otherRamaswami, Anu
dc.contributor.otherRobinson, Blake
dc.contributor.otherSalat, Serge
dc.contributor.otherSuh, Sangwon
dc.contributor.otherCurrie, Paul
dc.contributor.otherFang, Andrew
dc.contributor.otherHanson, Aaron
dc.contributor.otherKruit, Katja
dc.contributor.otherReiner, Mark
dc.contributor.otherSmit, Suzanne
dc.contributor.otherTabory, Samuel
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-17T08:27:53Z
dc.date.available2020-02-17T08:27:53Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionThe report presents the first assessment of the resources required at a global scale for the coming wave of urbanization. Using material flow analysis, the analysis of urban form and city organization, the assessment of the potential contribution of known sustainable technologies, as well as case study methodology, it reveals the possibility of an alternative, resource-efficient urban management strategy. The report identifies the proliferation of the sustainability-oriented ‘urban experiments’ as a basis for a new form of resource-efficient urbanism. This emergent mode of urban governance can be aligned with the potential of networks of knowledge-based economies that will change industrial activity in cities over the coming decades. The report seeks to address the complex interrelationships between (1) urban population growth and demographic change, (2) spatial change and development (with particular reference to (de-)densification), (3) infrastructure planning and development, and (4) resource flows into, through and out of urban systems, and consequently the complex interrelationships between cities and the wider ecosystems within which they are embedded. It presents urban resource flows as being key to understanding what it will take to promote a transition from resource-intensive urban metabolism towards alternatives that manage resources more carefully.en
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dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-3699-1
dc.identifier.otherDTI/2172/PA
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/31623
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofIRP Reports
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectcity
dc.subjecturbanization
dc.subjectsustainable consumption
dc.subjectsustainable development
dc.subjectpopulation growth
dc.subjectwaste management
dc.subjecturban management
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goals
dc.subjectland use
dc.subjecturban development
dc.subjectgreen revolution
dc.subjectenergy efficiency
dc.subjecttransport
dc.subjectChina
dc.subjectIndia
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.subjecturban planning
dc.titleThe Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanizationen
dc.typeTechnical report

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