Ecological sustainability and urban form

Ivan Muñiz () and Anna Galindo
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Ivan Muñiz: Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Working Papers from Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Ecological footprint; Barcelona; transportation system; urban sprawl (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q32 Q56 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2001-12
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