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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 optimist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization > Environmental aspects.
Cities and towns > Growth.
Écologie urbaine.
Urbanisation > Aspect de l'environnement.
Villes > Croissance.
urban environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Urban & Regional.
Cities and towns > Growth
Urbanization > Environmental aspects
Stadterweiterung
Verstädterung
Umweltbelastung
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadtentwicklung
Stadsplanning.
Groenvoorzieningen.
Stadtökologie.
Verstädterung > Umwelt.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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