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Delivering Sustainable Transport
A. Root (Ed.)
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Description for Delivering Sustainable Transport
Hardcover. These papers discuss how transport paradigms have evolved over the past decade. They show how to translate the understanding of the social and cultural elements of increased transportation of goods and people into more effective and less harmful transport strategies. Editor(s): Root, A. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KNG; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 478.
Until now, transport has been left to planners and economists, but this timely book raises issues that these disciplines exclude. This book offers examples of how transport analysis can be diversified and broadened to include important theoretical approaches and perspectives not previously used in mainstream transport studies. These provocative essays cover a wide range of issues and opens up a debate on the effects of travel and transport on various social groups, from bikers to pre-school age children, in the West and in industrialising countries. Leading authorities from transport planning, sociology, geography and environmental studies show how different frameworks - ... Read more
Until now, transport has been left to planners and economists, but this timely book raises issues that these disciplines exclude. This book offers examples of how transport analysis can be diversified and broadened to include important theoretical approaches and perspectives not previously used in mainstream transport studies. These provocative essays cover a wide range of issues and opens up a debate on the effects of travel and transport on various social groups, from bikers to pre-school age children, in the West and in industrialising countries. Leading authorities from transport planning, sociology, geography and environmental studies show how different frameworks - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780080440224
SKU
V9780080440224
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
Reviews for Delivering Sustainable Transport
"Overall this book does not - nor does it even attempt to - provide the holy grail that is the answer of how one implements sustainable transport policy on the ground ... It does, though, contribute further ideas on a number of general and more specific policy areas and for this reason it is worth a look." Local Transport Today, ... Read more