Format:
Online-Ressource (vii, 160 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0815748159
,
0815748167
,
0815748140
,
9780815748168
,
9780815748151
Content:
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 optimistic-perhaps naïve-to expect both
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-149) and index
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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Measuring Urban Environmental Quality; 3. The Urban Environmental Kuznets Curve; 4. Income Growth and the Urban Environment: The Role of the Market; 5. Income Growth and Greener Governance; 6. Population Growth and the Urban Environment; 7. Spatial Growth: The Environmental Cost of Sprawl in the United States; 8. Achieving Urban and Global Sustainability; References; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815748168
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Green Cities : Urban Growth and the Environment
Language:
English
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