Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. She lives in Boston.

• PART I: CITIES AND THE GREEN ECONOMY ; 1. Introduction and Overview ; 2. Why Focus on Cities? ; 3. What is Green Economic Development? ; PART II: GREEN URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES REVEALED ; 4. Cities Turning Trash into Jobs ; 5. Renewing Urban Economies with Renewable Energy ; 6. Energy Efficiency and Green Building ; 7. Mass Transit and Economic Development ; PART III. THE POTENTIAL AND THE POLICY FOR CREATING A GREEN ECONOMY ; 8. : Jobs and Economic Development: the Evidence and the Potential ; 9. . Cities in a National Economy

Goes a long way toward filling the factual vacuum on clean energy development....The foundation of solid on-site business reporting and economic research on which Emerald Cities is built makes the book, as well as its author's formidable conclusions, worthwhile reading for anyone concerned about the relationship between the quality of life in the U.S economy and the sustainability of life on the planet.

Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. She lives in Boston.

• PART I: CITIES AND THE GREEN ECONOMY ; 1. Introduction and Overview ; 2. Why Focus on Cities? ; 3. What is Green Economic Development? ; PART II: GREEN URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES REVEALED ; 4. Cities Turning Trash into Jobs ; 5. Renewing Urban Economies with Renewable Energy ; 6. Energy Efficiency and Green Building ; 7. Mass Transit and Economic Development ; PART III. THE POTENTIAL AND THE POLICY FOR CREATING A GREEN ECONOMY ; 8. : Jobs and Economic Development: the Evidence and the Potential ; 9. . Cities in a National Economy

Goes a long way toward filling the factual vacuum on clean energy development....The foundation of solid on-site business reporting and economic research on which Emerald Cities is built makes the book, as well as its author's formidable conclusions, worthwhile reading for anyone concerned about the relationship between the quality of life in the U.S economy and the sustainability of life on the planet.

Joan Fitzgerald is the Director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers and Economic Revitalization: Cases and Strategies for City and Suburb. She lives in Boston.

• PART I: CITIES AND THE GREEN ECONOMY ; 1. Introduction and Overview ; 2. Why Focus on Cities? ; 3. What is Green Economic Development? ; PART II: GREEN URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES REVEALED ; 4. Cities Turning Trash into Jobs ; 5. Renewing Urban Economies with Renewable Energy ; 6. Energy Efficiency and Green Building ; 7. Mass Transit and Economic Development ; PART III. THE POTENTIAL AND THE POLICY FOR CREATING A GREEN ECONOMY ; 8. : Jobs and Economic Development: the Evidence and the Potential ; 9. . Cities in a National Economy

Goes a long way toward filling the factual vacuum on clean energy development....The foundation of solid on-site business reporting and economic research on which Emerald Cities is built makes the book, as well as its author's formidable conclusions, worthwhile reading for anyone concerned about the relationship between the quality of life in the U.S economy and the sustainability of life on the planet.