Green cities : urban growth and the environment
by
 
Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-

Title
: 
Green cities : urban growth and the environment

Author
: 
Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-

ISBN
: 
9780815748168
 
9780815748151

Personal Author
: 
Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-

Publication Information
: 
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.

Physical Description
: 
vii, 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

Abstract
: 
"In Green Cities, Matthew Kahn surveys the burgeoning economic literature on the environmental consequences of urban growth. He discusses the environmental Kuznets curve, which theorizes that the relationship between environmental quality and per capita income follows a bell-shaped curve. The heart of the book unpacks and expands this notion by tracing the environmental effects of economic growth, population growth, and suburban sprawl. Kahn considers how cities can deal with the environmental challenges produced by growth. His concluding chapter addresses the role of cities in promoting climate change and asks how cities in turn are likely to be affected by this trend."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
: 
Urban ecology (Sociology)
 
Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.
 
Cities and towns -- Growth.

Electronic Access
: 
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021499.html


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