| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 160 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-149) and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
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 optimisticperhaps naveto expect both. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.
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Urbanization -- Environmental aspects. |
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Urbanization. |
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Cities and towns -- Growth.
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Cities and towns -- Growth. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kahn, Matthew E., 1966- Green cities. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2006 0815748167 0815748159 (DLC) 2006021499 (OCoLC)65468600 |
| ISBN |
0815748140 (electronic book) |
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9780815748144 (electronic book) |
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0815748167 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0815748159 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780815748168 |
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9780815748151 |
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