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Urban Metabolism for Resource-Efficient Cities: from Theory to Implementation

This report is a review of urban resource assessment tools that can guide a city-level resource efficiency transition, using urban metabolism assessment as the guiding framework.

This study was the outcome of a collaboration between the Sustainability Institute (www.sustainabilityinstitute.net) and UN Environment (www.unep.org) under the framework of the Global Initiative for Resource Efficient Cities (www.resourceefficientcities.org).

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Lead authors: Josephine Kaviti Musango, Paul Currie and Blake Robinson The authors acknowledge assistance from Nhlanhla May
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