The challenge of global warming creates opportunities to build a new economy based on clean technologies. In Emerald Cities Joan Fitzgerald examines localities pioneering links between clean technologies and new jobs. She explores inventive urban policies in four areas of the green economy-renewable energy, green building, transportation, and waste management. Emerald Cities concludes with a discussion of state and national strategies needed to support city efforts to lead the transition to a green economy. INDICE: Part I: Cities and the Green Economy ; 1.: Introduction and Overview; 2.: Why Focus on Cities?; 3.: What is Green Economic Development?; PartII: Green Urban Economic Development Strategies Revealed; 4.: Cities Turning Trash into Jobs; 5.: Renewing Urban Economies with Renewable Energy; 6.: Energy Efficiency and Green Building; 7.: Mass Transit and Economic Development; Part III. The Potential and the Policy for Creating a Green Economy; 8.: : Jobs and Economic Development: the Evidence and the Potential; 9.:. Cities in a National Economy
- ISBN: 978-0-19-538276-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 234
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés