Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport - Obstacles, Trends, Solutions (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Veli Himanen • Martin Lee-Gosselin • Adriaan Perrels
Dimensions:	240 x 165 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-08-044709-4
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Transport industries > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > Sustainability Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Transport planning & policy > General
LSN:	0-08-044709-0
Barcode:	9780080447094

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