Rethinking Urban Sprawl

Acknowledgements

This report is an output of the OECD Environment Policy Committee and its Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies. The report was carried out under the overall responsibility of Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division.

The report was authored by Ioannis Tikoudis, Walid Oueslati, Alexandros Dimitropoulos and Lara Engelfriet of the OECD Environment Directorate. Walid Oueslati co-ordinated and oversaw work on the report. The authors of the individual chapters were:

 

Chapter 1	Alexandros Dimitropoulos, Ioannis Tikoudis, Walid Oueslati.
Chapter 2	Ioannis Tikoudis, Walid Oueslati, Alexandros Dimitropoulos.
Chapter 3	Ioannis Tikoudis, Lara Engelfriet, Walid Oueslati, Alexandros Dimitropoulos.
Chapter 4	Ioannis Tikoudis, Alexandros Dimitropoulos, Walid Oueslati.
Chapter 5	Alexandros Dimitropoulos, Ioannis Tikoudis, Walid Oueslati.

Tobias Udsholt provided valuable inputs and suggestions and improved the dissemination of the work. Elizabeth Del Bourgo, Gabriella Scaduto-Mendola, Stéphanie Simonin-Edwards and Janine Treves provided guidance throughout the editorial process. Katjusha Boffa, Soojin Jeong, Jacqueline Maher and Aziza Perriére provided administrative support.

The authors are grateful to the delegates to the Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies and the Environment Policy Committee who provided valuable comments and feedback during the preparation of the report. The authors would like to thank the following OECD colleagues for providing insightful comments on earlier drafts of the report: Shardul Agrawala, Rudiger Ahrend, Ivan Haščič, Kurt van Dender and Paolo Veneri. Feedback and comments from Simon Upton (former OECD Environment Director) are gratefully acknowledged. The authors also greatly appreciate inputs and comments from Jan Brueckner (University of California at Irvine), Elena Irwin (Ohio State University), Eric Koomen (VU University Amsterdam), Colin Price (Colin Price Free-lance Academic Services), and JunJie Wu (Oregon State University).

This report is part of a broader project undertaken by the OECD Environment Directorate on Spatial Planning Instruments and the Environment (SPINE).