City-Level Decoupling-Full Report

City-Level Decoupling: Urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions

City-Level Decoupling: Urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions

Compiled for the Cities Working Group International Resource Panel

By: Mark Swilling (Stellenbosch University, SA), Blake Robinson (Stellenbosch University, SA), Simon Marvin (University of Durham, UK) and Mike Hodson (University of Salford, UK)

With contributions from: Adriana Allen (Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom); Ana Carolina Herrero (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento and Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina); Anri Landman (Siyakhana Initiative for Ecological Health and Food Security, Johannesburg, South Africa); Apiwat Ratanawaraha (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand); Aromar Revi (Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bangalore, India); Bernhard Truffer (Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of AquaticScience andTechnology, Dübendorf, Switzerland); ChristianBinz (Eawag: SwissFederal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland); Claire Janisch (Biomimicry South Africa, Natal Midlands, South Africa); Damian Conway (Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa); Diana Daste (Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom); Edgar Pieterse (African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa); Gabriela Weber de Morais (Itaú Unibanco Bank, Sao Paulo, Brazil); Gye Woon Choi (University of Incheon, Incheon, Republic of Korea); Harriet Bulkeley (Department of Geography, Durham University, Newcastle, United Kingdom); Ibidun Adelekan (University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria); Julio Dávila (Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom); Jyri Seppälä (Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland); Kulwant Singh (UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya); Lars Coenen (Lund University, Lund, Sweden) ; Lasse Peltonen (Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland); Lauren Tavener-Smith (Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa); Lian Guey LER (International Centre for Urban Water Hydroinformatics Research & Innovation, University of Incheon, Incheon, Republic of Korea); Maarten Hajer (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Mari Tomita (Ministry of the Environment, Kyushu, Japan); Matthew Wood-Hill (Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom); Natalie Mayer (Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa); Oscar Ricardo Schmeiske (Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil); Perween Rahman (Orangi Pilot Project’s Research and Training Institute, Karachi, Pakistan); Sabine Barles (Institute for Urban Planning, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee, Paris, France); Shuaib Lwasa (School of Forestry, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda); Stefanie Swanepoel (Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa); Vanesa Castán Broto (Development Planning Unit, University College London, London, United Kingdom); Walter Alberto Pengue (Peri-urban Institute, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina).

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