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...

1. What is urban and environmental economics? -- 2. Perspectives in urban and environmental economics -- 3. The built and natural environment according to economists -- 4. The basic economic problem in shared spaces -- 5. Limits to growth : balancing space and resources -- 6. Market forces :...