Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment - ISBN:0815748159

Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment

Date: 24 April 2011, 00:54

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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 naive—to expect both.
Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
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

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