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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.Description: vii, 160 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.76 22
LOC classification:
  • HT241 .K34 2006eb
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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.

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