Understanding the Relationship between Resource Consumption and Development Levels

该研究调查了两个关键的联合国可持续发展目标之间的相互依存关系，即减少资源消耗和促进社会发展，这两个目标对于在地球承载能力范围内实现系统发展至关重要。这将通过一种新的混合方法量化这种关系，为实现可持续发展目标带来新的见解。一个新的多尺度框架将结合两种孤立的方法：建筑材料流分析和城市尺度方法。这些方法将在社区、城市和区域尺度上应用，以了解自变量及其之间的关系如何在不同尺度上变化。它将应用于英国和印度的代表性地区，以测试在发达和发展中的背景下的适用性。然后，研究将继续了解如何采用替代材料，建筑类型和基础设施提供可以减少发展的碳足迹。

The research investigates the interdependent relationship between two key UN SDG's, reducing resource consumption and increasing social development, both of which are crucial to enable systematic development within the carrying capacity of the planet. This will bring about novel insights in achieving the SDGs through quantifying this relationship through a new hybrid method. A novel multi-scale framework will be developed by combining two isolated methods: building stock material flow analysis and urban scaling methods. These methods will be applied at neighbourhood, city and regional scales to understand how independent variables and relationships between them vary across scales. It will be applied to representative areas in the UK and India to test applicability in a developed and developing context. The research will then go on to understand how adopting alternative materials, construction types and infrastructure provision can reduce the carbon footprint of development.