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Sustainable Automobile Transport

Sustainable Automobile Transport

Shaping Climate Change Policy

by Lisa Ryan and Hal Turton
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/11/2007

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Transport, and in particular road transport, represents a significant global threat to long-term sustainable development, and is one of the fastest-growing consumers of final energy and sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In this book, long-term energy-economy-environment scenarios are used to identify the key technological developments required to address the challenges passenger car transport poses to climate change mitigation and energy security. It also considers possible targets for policy support and examines some of the elements that contribute to the significant levels of uncertainty - particularly social and political conditions. The book then builds on this long-term scenario analysis with a broad review of recent empirical examples of relevant policy implementation to identify near-term options for the passenger transportation sector, which may promote a shift towards a more sustainable transport system over the longer term.Sustainable Automobile Transport will be of particular interest to those in the policy process who are striving to address the automobile-derived challenges associated with climate change - a growing rather than declining problem. It will have a worldwide audience as every developed and rapidly growing society struggles to address the dynamic growth in greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.
ISBN:
9781847204516
9781847204516
Category:
Sustainability
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-11-2007
Publisher:
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
234x156mm

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