RT Report
T1 City-Level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Annex: Case Studies from Selected Cities
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 International Resource Panel, 
A2 Swilling, Mark
A2 Robinson, Blake
A2 Marvin, Simon
A2 Hodson, Mike
K1 sustainable development
K1 housing improvement
K1 city
K1 case study
K1 low carbon economy
K1 India
K1 United Arab Emirates
K1 Republic of Korea
K1 Germany
K1 United States
K1 urban agriculture
K1 sustainable agriculture
K1 Ghana
K1 urban development
K1 Thailand
K1 water reuse
K1 wastewater
K1 waste management
K1 recycling
K1 Uganda
K1 South Africa
K1 sanitation
K1 Pakistan
K1 Nigeria
K1 informal settlement
K1 Malawi
K1 Finland
K1 Japan
K1 Australia
K1 climate
K1 water resource
K1 Singapore
K1 United Kingdom
K1 fossil fuel
K1 Sweden
K1 food security
K1 Argentina
K1 solid waste management
K1 Viet Nam
K1 Brazil
K1 physical infrastructure
SN 978-92-807-3298-6
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/31451
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/31451
NO These cases were selected to showcase innovative and visionary approaches to sustainable infrastructure change across a broad range of contexts, and are intended to demonstrate the abundance of options available that could inspire leaders of other cities to embrace creative solutions. While the approaches may be unique to each case, they can be used to inspire new thinking about infrastructural solutions that leverage existing strengths and resources to address social and environmental needs in an innovative manner. It is important to note that many of these cases have not been fully documented or are based on independently verified information. Nevertheless, they are concrete expressions of widely circulated ideas that have begun to be put in practice, with lessons that loop back into networks that can stimulate the creativity of the next generation of innovators, who could benefit from mastering the tools of material flow analysis.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 20, 2026