Making Urban Transport Sustainable (Global Issues) - Hardcover

 
9780333981986: Making Urban Transport Sustainable (Global Issues)

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Internet Websites Is Urban Transport Sustainable?; N.Low PART I: GLOBAL ISSUES IN TRANSPORT SUSTAINABILITY Global Cities, Transport, Energy and the Future: Will Ecosocialization Reverse the Historic Trends?; P.Newman The Peak of Oil: An Economic and Political Turning Point for the World; C.Campbell The Effect of E-commerce on Transportation Demand; H.Stiller Automotive Pollution Control Technologies; C.Destefani & E.Siores PART II: REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STUDIES Towards Sustainable Transportation Policy in the United States: A Grassroots Perspective; C.Yee Transport in the European Union: Time to Decide; J.Whitelegg Transport Sustainability in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands; E.Tengström The Privatization of the Japan National Railways: The Myth of Neo-liberal Reform and Spatial Configurations of the Rail Network in Japan - A View from Critical Geography; I.Takeda & F.Mizuoka Developing Public Transport Systems in Indian Cities: Towards a Sustainable Future; S.Banerjee-Guha Transport and Land Use in Chinese Cities: International Comparisons; G.Hu Barriers to Sustainable Transport in Australia; B.Gleeson, C.Curtis & N.Low PART III: BEST PRACTICE IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Towards Sustainable Urban Transportation in the European Union; I.Elander & R.Lidskog Managing Transport Demand in European Countries; J.Whitelegg & N.Low Lessons from Asia on Sustainable Urban Transport; P.Barter, J.Kenworthy & F.Laube Bibliography Index

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

SWAPNA BANERJEE-GUHA Professor of Human Geography, University of Mumbai, India PAUL BARTER Lecturer, Geography Department, National University, Singapore CAREY CURTIS Lecturer, Curtin University, Australia CARLOS DESTEFANI Research Engineer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia INGEMAR ELANDER Associate Professor in Political Science, Örebro University, Sweden GANG HU Research Scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia JEFF KENWORTHY Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Australia FELIX LAUBE Swiss Federal Railways ROLF LIDSKOG Professor of Sociology, Örebro University, Sweden FUJIO MIZUOKA Professor of Economic Geography, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan PETER NEWMAN Professor of City Policy, Murdoch University, Australia ELIAS SIORES Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia HARTMUT STILLER Former Senior Fellow, Department of Material Flows and Structural Change, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy IZUMI TAKEDA Lecturer, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan EMIN TENGSTRÖM Research Professor of Transportation Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark JOHN WHITELEGG Professor of Environmental Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, UK CAMERON YEE Policy Director, People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO)

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781349430352: Making Urban Transport Sustainable (Global Issues)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1349430358 ISBN 13:  9781349430352
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Softcover