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Building Better Cities: ASEAN Looks to the Future
(2018)
The rapid growth of urbanization signals a significant demographic shift that will change the way people live and the way our human settlements function. New infrastructure and systems are needed to support the growing ...
Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth – Factsheet
(2011)
The remarkable economic and population growth of the 20th century was closely coupled to substantial increases in the extraction and consumption of natural resources, leading to increasingly-damaging negative environmental ...
City-level Decoupling: Urban Resource Flows and the Governance of Infrastructure Transitions – Factsheet
(2013)
Global economic production is now concentrated in cities. Some 80% of global GDP is produced in cities on just 2% of the land surface, though cities depend on the flow of resources from near and far. Cities have been growing ...