Sprawl Costs - Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development

Informationen zum Autor Robert Burchell is distinguished professor and co-director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. Anthony Downs is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington! D.C. Barbara McCann is a former CNN journalist who has written extensively about transportation and land use policy issues for Smart Growth America and other organizations. Sahan Mukherji is a research associate at the Center for Urban Policy Research. Klappentext The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented! but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996! a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs presents a concise and readable summary of the results of that study. The authors analyze the extent of sprawl! define an alternative! more compact form of growth! project the magnitude and location of future growth! and compare what the total costs of those two forms of growth would be if each was applied throughout the nation. They analyze the likely effects of continued sprawl! consider policy options! and discuss examples of how more compact growth would compare with sprawl in particular regions. Finally! they evaluate whether compact growth is likely to produce the benefits claimed by its advocates. The book represents a comprehensive and objective analysis of the costs and benefits of different approaches to growth! and gives decision-makers and others concerned with planning and land use realistic and useful data on the implications of various options and policies. Zusammenfassung The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented! but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996! a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. This is a summary of the results of that study. ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: R.A. Burchell, R.a. Downs Burchell, Robert Burchell, Robert Downs Burchell, Robert W. Burchell, Robert W. (EDT)/ Downs Burchell, Anthony Downs, Downs Anthony, Barbara McCann, McCann Barbara, Sahan Mukherji, Mukherji Sahan
• Edition: Island Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 29.06.2005
• EAN: 9781559635301
• ISBN: 978-1-55963-530-1
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Biologie > Ecologie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie > Economie internationale; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies