1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811675903321

Titolo

Environmental amenities and regional economic development / / edited by Todd L. Cherry and Dan S. Rickman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-24543-6

1-135-24544-4

1-282-64003-8

9786612640032

0-203-86848-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

CherryTodd L

RickmanDan S

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Environmental economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Moving to nice weather; 3 The rise of the Sunbelt; 4 The role of amenities and quality of life in rural economic growth; 5 Population growth in high-amenity rural areas: Does it bring socioeconomic benefits for long-term residents?; 6 Natural amenities and rural employment growth: A sector analysis; 7 Recasting the creative class to examine growth processes in rural and urban counties; 8 An analysis of regional economic growth in the U.S. Midwest

9 Public conservation land and employment growth in the Northern Forest region10 The geographic diversity of U.S. nonmetropolitan growth dynamics: A geographically weighted regression approach; 11 Voting with their feet: Jobs versus amenities; 12 Population growth in European cities: Weather matters - but only nationally; 13 Combining nature conservation and residential development in the Netherlands, England and Spain; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Economic development and the environment are presumed to be in conflict, but the latter part of the twentieth century experienced a



series of economic changes that increasingly questioned this view. Economic activity became more footloose and the ability to attract productive labor became a prominent regional development concern. Consequently, environmental amenities began to have a larger role in determining the patterns of regional growth and development, and subsequently moved to the forefront of current regional economic development thought and practice. Environmental amen