Green Cities Urban Growth and the Environment

Name: Green Cities Urban Growth and the Environment
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ISBN: 9780815748151

ISBN-10: 0815748159

ISBN-13: 9780815748151

Edition: 2006

Authors: Matthew E. Kahn

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What is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco or Vancouver is more " green" than Houston or Beijing? When does urban growth lower environmental quality, and when does it yield environmental gains? How can cities deal with the environmental challenges posed by growth? These are the questions Matthew Kahn takes on in this smart and engaging book. Written in a lively, accessible style, Green Cities takes the reader on a tour of the extensive economic literature on the environmental consequences of urban growth. Kahn starts with an exploration of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)the hypothesis that the relationship between environmental quality and per capita income…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.25" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English