Hans Jeekel

The Car-dependent Society

A European Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cars are essential in modern Western societies. Some even say that our modern lifestyles would have been impossible without cars. The dependency of Western societies on our cars is a unique situation in history, but does not get much attention; car use is seen as just a normal situation. The population at large knows the risks, knows the disadvantages, experiences the advantages and keeps driving. Using data from Western Europe, this book examines three key themes: frequent car use, car dependence, and the future of passenger car mobility in societies. In conclusion, in modern Western risk societies, more attention needs to be paid to car dependence, its driving forces, its advantages, its problems and challenges for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9781409438274
• ISBN-10: 1409438279
• Artikelnr.: 41247690

Autorenporträt

Hans Jeekel, Rijkswaterstaat (National Road and Water Agency), The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Frequent car use and car dependence in the risk society: an introduction
Part 1 Setting the Scene: Modern risk society and car mobility
Attitudes and motives for car use
From frequent car use to car dependence. Part 2 Problems and Perspectives: Frequent car use: energy and sustainability questions
Frequent car use: societal questions
Scenarios for the governance of car mobility
The social and cultural aspects of mobility: towards a research agenda
Summary and conclusions
Addendum
References
Index.