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



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Titolo: Environmental amenities and regional economic development / / edited by Todd L. Cherry and Dan S. Rickman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
Disciplina: 338.9
Soggetto topico: Economic development - Environmental aspects
Environmental economics
Altri autori: CherryTodd L  
RickmanDan S  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Environmental amenities and regional economic development  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-135-24543-6
1-135-24544-4
1-282-64003-8
9786612640032
0-203-86848-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811675903321
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Serie: Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; ; 21.