Matthew E Kahn: 4 books

Book cover of Climatopolis

Climatopolis

How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future

by Matthew E. Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010

"Climatopolis documents the thinking of a first-rate economist on one of the most pressing issues of our time" --Nature We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to environmental economist Matthew E. Kahn,...
Book cover of Blue Skies over Beijing

Blue Skies over Beijing

Economic Growth and the Environment in China

by Siqi Zheng, Matthew E. Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016

Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most...
Book cover of Mapping "Race"

Mapping "Race"

Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

by Jonathan Kahn, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Jay S. Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data...
Book cover of Keyhole Stories
by Avelino Benavides, Claudia E. Bernal, Sandra Jabre
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2017

Keyhole Stories is the result of the collaborative effort of 15 writers. We come from a wide variety of back- grounds, but what we have in common is the experience of living in Stockholm for some period of time in our lives, and an interest in writing ction in English. We have all taken creative writing...
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