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Ecological sustainability and urban form

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Ivan Muñiz () (Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Anna Galindo
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One controversial idea present in the debate on urban sustainability is that urban sprawl is an ecological stressing problem. We have tested this popular assumption by measuring the ecological footprint of commuting and housing of the 163 municipalities of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region and by relating the estimated values with residential density and accessibility, the fundamental determinant of residential density according to the Monocentric City Model.

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Paper provided by Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona in its series Working Papers with number wp0120.

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Date of creation: Dec 2001
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Handle: RePEc:uab:wprdea:wp0120

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Keywords: Ecological footprint; Barcelona; transportation system; urban sprawl;

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Q32 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounting
R4 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Transportation Systems

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  1. Ivan Muñiz & Anna Galindo, 2001. "Estructura metropolitana y funciones de densidad residencial. El caso de la región metropolitana de Barcelona," Working Papers wp0103, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona. [Downloadable!]
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