The Earthscan Reader on World Transport Policy and Practice

Herausgeber: Haq, Gary; Whitelegg, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Transport is now a critical problem throughout the world, and it is set to get worse. Whether it is traffic congestion, crashes (10 million killed and injured each year), noise, air pollution, landscape destruction, or greenhouse gas emissions (of which transport is the fastest-growing source), the damage and the costs from our current forms of transport are dangerously high and getting worse. Policies and practical measures that can reduce and eliminate these problems are urgently needed. This Reader contains 16 important contributions on how to improve transport globally. They are based on sound science, sound people-centred analysis, and a strong awareness of equity and human rights. And they have been selected for their originality, the importance of the issues they focus on, the quality of their insight and their practical relevance. A further 7 commissioned chapters provide informative overviews of the transport problems specific to each region of the world, while the editors' Introduction and Conclusion frames the discussion and lays out the scale of the challenges we face. As a whole, the Reader demonstrates what steps can be taken to improve both transport provision and use, in both the developed and the developing world, while reducing environmental and health impacts. It will serve as an invaluable sourcebook for anyone researching or attempting to address the issues associated with world transport policy and practice, whether students, planners, business people or policy-makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781853838514
• ISBN-10: 1853838519
• Artikelnr.: 22019423

Autorenporträt

John Whitelegg is Professor of Environmental Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Gary Haq is Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: The Global Transport Problem: Same Issues but a
Different Place * Part 2 Transport in Africa: Four Decades of Road
Transport in Africa * Liveable Streets for Pedestrians in Nairobi: The
Challenge of Road Traffic Accidents * Sustaining Africa's Rural Road
Networks: The Asset Management Approach * Part 3 Transport in Asia:
Southeast Asian Urban Transport: A Kaleidoscope of Challenges and Choices *
Automobile Dependence in Bangkok: An International Comparison with
Implications for Planning Policies * Kolkata City: An Urban Air Pollution
Perspective * Road Infrastructure Investment in Bangladesh: Environment
under Threat * Part 4 Transport in Australia: Back on Track? Will Australia
Return to Rail? * A Wish Called Wander: Reclaiming Automobility from the
Motor Car * Urban Transport Policy Paradoxes in Australia * Part 5
Transport in Europe: European Regional Transport Issues * New Roads
Generate New Traffic * Car-free Households: Who lives without an Automobile
Today? * Part 6 Transport in Latin America: Urban Transport in Latin
America * Car-sharing in Latin America: Examining Prospects in Santiago *
The Urban Transportation Crises in Developing Countries * Part 7 Transport
in North America: Regional Transport Issues in North America * The North
American Growth Fixation and the Inner City: Roads of Excess * Prospects
for Sustainable Transportation in the Pacific Northwest: a Comparison of
Vancouver, Seattle and Portland * Part 8 Transport in the Middle East:
Transport in the Middle East * How Many Shall Live? How Many Shall Die?
Deaths Resulting from the Trans-Israel Highway and Alternatives: A Risk
Assessment Revisited * The Status of Transportation in the West Bank * Part
9 Visioning Change: New Directions in World Transport Policy and Practice *
Index