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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

Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.Description: vii, 160 p. : illSubject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

307.76 22

LOC classification:

HT241 .K34 2006eb

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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Holdings: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10149859

Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-149) and index.

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

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