Green cities [electronic resource] : urban growth and the environment / Matthew E. Kahn.

By: Kahn, Matthew E, 1966-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006Description: vii, 160 p. : illSubject(s): Urban ecology (Sociology) | Urbanization -- Environmental aspects | Cities and towns -- GrowthGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 307.76 LOC classification: HT241 | .K34 2006Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-149) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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