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What is Air Transport and the Environment about?
This volume provides a clear, accessible account of aviation environmental impacts that reflects the latest developments in science, technology, policy, and economic development. It explores a range of responses, mitigation strategies and issues relating to air transport and the environment. Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts. It explains the challenge facing policymakers in terms of sustainable development, focusing on the importance of balancing the industry's economic, social and environmental costs and benefits, both for people living now and for future generations. Individual chapters review the current scientific understanding of the main aviation environmental impacts: climate change, local air pollution and aircraft noise. Various responses to those issues are also considered, including a range of policy options based on regulatory, market-based and voluntary approaches. Key concepts such as environmental capacity, radiative forcing and carbon offsetting are explained. In addition, the book emphasises the main implications of aviation environmental issues for policymakers and for the managemen
Who reads Air Transport and the Environment?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ben Daley
- Publisher
- Ashgate Pub. Co.
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781317183372
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Transportation, Engineering
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