City-Level Decoupling-Full Report

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

List of figures and tables

Box 1.1

Significant recent reports on cities................................................................................ 16

Figure 2.1 Figure 2.2 Figure 2.3 Figure 2.4 Figure 3.1 Figure 3.2 Figure 3.3 Figure 4.1 Figure 4.2 Figure 4.3

Global metabolic rates and income, 1900-2005........................................................... 20 Two aspects of decoupling ............................................................................................. 21 Water flow (litres / day) for a new upper income detached home in New Delhi, India.24 Two different models of energy flows through Jinze Town, Shanghai. ...................... 25 Growth rates 2005-2010 for selected regions (main regions in red).......................... 27 Percentage of population living in urban areas in different regions (1950-2050)...... 28 Percentage of urban population living in slum areas for selected regions (1990-2010). ........................................................................................................ 29 Urban material flows. ..................................................................................................... 34 Typology of urban metabolic profiles............................................................................. 40 Conceptual representation of typical material consumption and energy consumption patterns over the life cycle of the development of a typical city.......... 43 Transition contexts as a function of degree of coordination to selection pressures and the locus of asaptive ressources.......................................................... 55 Four types of rebundled green urban networks .......................................................... 62

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Table 2.1 Table 4.1 Table 4.2

The set of socio-technical systems and associated socio-metabolic flows.............. 23 Explanation of indicators and abbreviations used in Figure 4.1.................................. 35 Results from a 2003 MFA of Paris and the surrounding region. ................................ 37

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