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The Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanization

dc.contributorInternational Resource Panelen_US
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programmeen_US
dc.contributor.authorInternational Resource Panelen_US
dc.contributor.otherSwilling, M.en_US
dc.contributor.otherHajer, M.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBaynes, T.en_US
dc.contributor.otherBergesen, J.en_US
dc.contributor.otherLabbé, F.en_US
dc.contributor.otherMusango, J. K.en_US
dc.contributor.otherRamaswami, A.en_US
dc.contributor.otherRobinson, B.en_US
dc.contributor.otherSalat, S.en_US
dc.contributor.otherSuh, S.en_US
dc.contributor.otherCurrie, P.en_US
dc.contributor.otherFang, A.en_US
dc.contributor.otherHanson, A.en_US
dc.contributor.otherKruit, K.en_US
dc.contributor.otherReiner, M.en_US
dc.contributor.otherSmit, S.en_US
dc.contributor.otherTabory, S.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialGlobalen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-17T08:27:53Z
dc.date.available2020-02-17T08:27:53Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-3699-1en_US
dc.identifier.otherDTI/2172/PAen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/31623
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_US
dc.formatTexten_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofIRP Reportsen_US
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.subjectCITIESen_US
dc.subjectURBANIZATIONen_US
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTIONen_US
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTen_US
dc.subjectPOPULATION GROWTHen_US
dc.subjectWASTE MANAGEMENTen_US
dc.subjectURBAN PLANNINGen_US
dc.subjectURBAN MANAGEMENTen_US
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALSen_US
dc.subjectLAND USEen_US
dc.subjectURBAN DEVELOPMENTen_US
dc.subjectGREEN REVOLUTIONen_US
dc.subjectENERGY EFFICIENCYen_US
dc.subjectTRANSPORTen_US
dc.subjectCHINAen_US
dc.subjectINDIAen_US
dc.subjectUNITED STATESen_US
dc.subjectURBAN PLANNINGen_US
dc.titleThe Weight of Cities: Resource Requirements of Future Urbanizationen_US


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