City-Level Decoupling-Full Report

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

water from a nearby river and groundwater reserves to keep the Cheonggyecheon flowing all year round. 5. Some seemingly-effective innovations can render existing services unsustainable, where, for example, new informal waste collection services can contribute to the unprofitability of existing formal services through collecting 'their' waste and circumventing regulations.

technology solution to the 2003-04 water crisis in Chennai restored pre-colonial infrastructure to recharge the city’s depleted aquifers.

4. A continuing challenge is balancing project-scale interventions with

sustainability when the ecological costs stretch beyond the boundaries of the project. In the Seoul case, critics have questioned the ecological costs of pumping

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