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Consumption in Urban Areas  Article excerpt   In the world in
the last 60 years, energy consumption increased unexpectedly
long (Wagner, 2010); the world is consuming today by six times
more energy than half a century ago. This entails a high
consumption of conventional resources, namely a decrease in
reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, increases pollution and
contributes to global warming. Understanding the danger that
affects not only the present but also the future, numerous
warning signs were drawn, and the first one was of the Club of
Rome in 1972. The document called Limits to Growth, are
addressed elements like: population growth, the impact of
industrialization, the effects of pollution, food production and
natural resource depletion trends (National Centre for
Sustainable Development, 2008). Five years later in the report
Our Common Future by World Commission on Environment and
Development, appears the first definition of sustainable
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