Towards a green economy

List of figures Figure 1: Urban environmental transition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Figure 2: Ecological Footprint, HDI and urbanisation level by country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Figure 3: Carbon emission and income for selected countries and cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 Figure 4: Private transport fuel expenditure and urban density of selected cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 Figure 5: Enabling conditions, institutional strength and democratic maturity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478

List of tables Table 1: Infrastructure costs for different development scenarios in Calgary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Table 2: Capacity and infrastructure costs of different transport systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 Table 3: Investment and operating costs of selected green city projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 Table 4: Urban transport employment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470 Table 5: Mercer quality of living city ranking 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 Table 6: Selected planning and regulatory instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481 Table 7: Selected information-based instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 Table 8: Selected incentives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 Table 9: Selected financing instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 Table 10: Top-up training for low-carbon jobs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

List of boxes Box 1: Green jobs in the urban economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

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