Sustainable Automobile Transport: Shaping Climate Change Policy - Couverture rigide

Ryan, Lisa; Turton, Hal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1847204511 ISBN 13 : 9781847204516

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lisa Ryan, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin and Comhar – Sustainable Development Council, Dublin, Ireland and Hal Turton, Group Leader, Energy Economics Group, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland and formerly at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847204511
• ISBN 13: 9781847204516
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible