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Making urban transport sustainable / edited by Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson.

Title: Making urban transport sustainable / edited by Nicholas Low and Brendan Gleeson.
Publication: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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Description

xx, 299 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Global issues series

Uniform Title

Global issues series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.

Contents

1. Is Urban Transport Sustainable? / Nicholas Low -- Pt. I. Global Issues in Transport Sustainability -- 2. Global Cities, Transport, Energy and the Future: Will Ecosocialization Reverse the Historic Trends? / Peter Newman -- 3. The Peak of Oil: an Economic and Political Turning Point for The World / C. J. Campbell -- 4. The Effect of e-Commerce on Transportation Demand / Hartmut Stiller -- 5. Automotive Pollution Control Technologies / Carlos Destefani and Elias Siores -- Pt. II. Regional and National Studies -- 6. Towards Sustainable Transportation Policy in the United States: a Grassroots Perspective / Cameron Yee -- 7. Transport in the European Union: Time to Decide / John Whitelegg -- 8. Transport Sustainability in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands / Emin Tengstrom --
9. 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 / Izumi Takeda and Fujio Mizuoka -- 10. Developing Public Transport in Indian Cities: Towards a Sustainable Future / Swapna Banerjee-Guha -- 11. Transport and Land Use in Chinese Cities: International Comparisons / Gang Hu -- 12. Barriers to Sustainable Transport in Australia / Brendan Gleeson, Carey Curtis and Nicholas Low -- Pt. III. Best Practice in Sustainable Transport -- 13. Towards Sustainable Urban Transportation in the European Union? / Rolf Lidskog, Ingemar Elander and Pia Brundin -- 14. Managing Transport Demand in European Countries / John Whitelegg and Nicholas Low -- 15. Lessons from Asia on Sustainable Urban Transport / Paul Barter, Jeff Kenworthy and Felix Laube.

ISBN

0333981987 (cloth)

LCCN

2002028747

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Columbia University Libraries