Experimenting for Sustainable Transport - Couverture souple

Hoogma, Remco; Kemp, Rene; Schot, Johan; Truffer, Bernhard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415271177 ISBN 13 : 9780415271172

Editeur : Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rene Kemp is a senior research fellow at MERIT and an expert on environmental policy and technology. Remco Hoogma is a programme manager of NOVEM, responsible for the electric and hybrid vehicle programme. Johan Schot is professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven and also is connected with the university of Twente. Bernhard Truffer is a senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415271177
• ISBN 13: 9780415271172
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible