The Economy of Green Citites

PART I: Agenda Setting for the Urban Future with a Green Urban Economy

1. Introduction: Agenda Setting for the Urban Future with a Green Urban Economy

Monika Zimmermann and Richard Simpson

PART II: Setting a Green Economy Agenda for Cities

2. Introduction: Setting a Green Economy Agenda for Cities

Richard Simpson

3. New Urban Spaces: The Emergence of Green Economies

Kenneth Odero

4. Environmental Discourse and Economic Growth in the Greening of Post-Industrial Cities

Corina Mckendry

5. Sustainable Urban Transformation and the Green Urban Economy

Kes Mccormick, Stefan Anderberg and Lana Neij

6. Green Cities: Benefits of Urban Sustainability

Essam Hassan Mohamed Ahmed

7. Working in Green Cities: Improving the Urban Environment While Creating Jobs and Enhancing Working Conditions

Edmundo Werna

8. Sustainable Development for Cities and Citizens: Green Housing, Employment and Transport

Asif Kabani and Maliha Kabani

9. Cities and the Green Economy

Philipp Rode

10. Grtroduction: Strategies and Approaches for Greening Urban Economies

Shay Kelleher

20. The Economics of Low Carbon Cities: Approaches to a City-Scale Mini-Stern Review

Andy Gouldson, Niall Kerr, Corrado Topi, Ellie Dawkins, Johan Kuylenstierna and Richard Pearce

21. City Development Strategies and the Transition Towards a Green Urban Economy

Le-Yin Zhang

22. Low Carbon Enterprise Zones: Towards a Fossil Fuel Free City Economy

Philip Monaghan

23. Green Clusters and the Entrepreneurial Local Government: Portland's Economic Development Strategy

Art Von Lehe and Shay Kelleher

24. Green Cities Require Green Housing: Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Housing and Slum Upgrading in Cities in Developing Countries

Matthew French and Christophe Lalande

25. EcoMobility and its Benefits in an Urban Context

Santhosh Kodukula

26. Assessing the Cost of Groundwater Degradation in the Urbanizing Desert

Monika Zimmermann, Abitur 1969 in Bremen, Studium der Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte und Romanistik in Göttingen und Genf, Promotion 1976 in Hamburg, Redaktionsvolontariat beim "Göttinger Tageblatt", anschließend dort verantwortlich für das Feuilleton, danach zehn Jahre Feuilleton-Redakteurin der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, ab 1988 FAZ-Korrespondentin in der DDR mit Wohnsitz in Ost-Berlin, 1990 1994 Chefredakteurin der zur FAZ-Gruppe gehörenden überregionalen Tageszeitung NEUE ZEIT. 1994 - 2005 Chefredakteurin bei verschiedenen Zeitungen in verschiedenen Bundesländern. Seit 2006 Regierungssprecherin in Sachsen-Anhalt.