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Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport : Obstacles, Trends, Solutions by Adriaan Perrels, Adriaan Perrels, Veli Himanen, Martin Lee-Gosselin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new, post-modern, phase in transport policy and management. Achieving sustainable transport requires more than 'optimal' management of congestion and the effects on public health and the environment. Assessments of external effects, and their optimal levels, tend to be piecemeal, localized, and focused on a specific type of effect. Sustainability, on the other hand, is a comprehensive, forward-looking concept that encompasses the achievement of a state of society that is better overall; it requires a widened concept of welfare that includes environmental quality and social justice in both the short and long term. This book is organized into three sections, each discussing a major set of challenges to the transition to a sustainable transport system. Content: Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents 1. Introduction •Part I. How to Cast the Future? 2. How to Cast the Future? 3. Looking over the Horizon: Visioning and Backcasting 4. Lessons from Prospective Research on Sustainable Transport Carried Out through the OECD EST and French PREDIT Programs 5. Drivers of Freight Transport Demand and Their Policy

Who reads Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport : Obstacles, Trends, Solutions?

Author

Adriaan Perrels, Adriaan Perrels, Veli Himanen, Martin Lee-Gosselin

Publisher

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282735774

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Business, Transportation