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City-level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions
United Nations Environment Programme
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Paperback. The core argument of the Decoupling Report is that a transition to a green economy depends on finding ways to sustain economic growth rates without escalating rates of resource use. To achieve this decoupling, appropriate sustainability-oriented innovation will need to be initiated, promoted and applied on a large scale. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; KCN; RNF; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 210 x 8. Weight in Grams: 249.
The core argument of the Decoupling Report is that a transition to a green economy depends on finding ways to sustain economic growth rates without escalating rates of resource use. To achieve this decoupling, appropriate sustainability-oriented innovation will need to be initiated, promoted and applied on a large scale. Because the majority of the world's population now live in cities where most resource consumption takes place, the pressures and potentials to find ways to reconcile economic growth, well-being and the sustainable use of natural resources will be greatest in cities. Indeed, many significant sustainability-oriented innovations are already being applied at ... Read more
The core argument of the Decoupling Report is that a transition to a green economy depends on finding ways to sustain economic growth rates without escalating rates of resource use. To achieve this decoupling, appropriate sustainability-oriented innovation will need to be initiated, promoted and applied on a large scale. Because the majority of the world's population now live in cities where most resource consumption takes place, the pressures and potentials to find ways to reconcile economic growth, well-being and the sustainable use of natural resources will be greatest in cities. Indeed, many significant sustainability-oriented innovations are already being applied at ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
United Nations Pubns
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Nairobi, Kenya
ISBN
9789280732986
SKU
V9789280732986
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