Urban Growth and Climate Change
Posted: 16 Sep 2011
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Urban Growth and Climate Change
Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 333-350, 2009
Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Date Written: October 2009
Abstract
Between 1950 and 2030, the share of the world's population that lives in cities is predicted to grow from 30% to 60%. This urbanization has consequences for the likelihood of climate change and for the social costs that climate change will impose on the world's quality of life. This paper examines how urbanization affects greenhouse gas production, and it studies how urbanites in the developed and developing world will adapt to the challenges posed by climate change.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Kahn, Matthew E., Urban Growth and Climate Change (October 2009). Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 333-350, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1928365 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.resource.050708.144249
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