Green Cities : Urban Growth and the Environment /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Verstädterung > Umwelt.
Stadtökologie.
Groenvoorzieningen.
Stadsplanning.
Stadtentwicklung
Nachhaltigkeit
Umweltbelastung
Verstädterung
Stadterweiterung
Urbanization > Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Cities and towns > Growth.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Urban & Regional.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
urban environments.
Villes > Croissance.
Urbanisation > Aspect de l'environnement.
Écologie urbaine.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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