LIBROS DEL AUTOR: matthew e kahn

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  • Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities
    Mac McComas / Matthew E Kahn
    The urban centers of New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco have enjoyed tremendous economic success and population growth in recent years. At the same time, cities like Baltimore and Detroit have experienced population loss and economic decline. People living in these cities are not enjoying the American Dream of upward mobility. How can post-industrial cities struggling wi...
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    35,88 €

  • Blue Skies over Beijing
    Matthew E. Kahn / Siqi Zheng
    How individuals and the government are changing life in China’s polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China’s economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most...
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    36,19 €

  • Climatopolis
    Matthew E. Kahn / Matthew EKahn
    "Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" --NatureWe have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn, is not how we're going to avoid a hotter future but how we're going to adapt to it....
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    30,99 €

  • Green Cities
    Matthew E. Kahn
    '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...
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    32,02 €