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Green cities : urban growth and the environment / Matthew E. Kahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Urbanization--Environmental aspects.
- Urbanization.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Cities and towns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rapid urban growth and suburban sprawl have heightened concern in many quarters about sustainable development. Are economic growth and environmental health always mutually exclusive goals? Nearly everyone would choose to pursue both given the chance, but many believe that it would be overly optimistic-perhaps naïve-to expect both.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Measuring urban environmental quality
- The urban environmental Kuznets curve
- Income growth and the urban environment: the role of the market
- Income growth and greener governance
- Population growth and the urban environment
- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of sprawl in the United States
- Achieving urban and global sustainability.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-149) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815748144
- 0815748140
- OCLC:
- 476021151
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