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

By: Kahn, Matthew E, 1966-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006Description: vii, 160 p. : ill.Subject(s): Urban ecology (Sociology) | Urbanization -- Environmental aspects | Cities and towns -- GrowthGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 307.76 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.