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Handbook of Transport and the Environment

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ISBN-10: 0080441033

ISBN-13: 9780080441030

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kenneth J. Button, David A. Hensher

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Addressing the need to balance the economic benefits of transportation with the detrimental effect of transport systems on the environment, this volume discusses the key themes in sustainable transport using a meta-analysis of relevant journal contributions.
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Book details

List price: $257.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date: 11/19/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 854
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.45" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.718
Language: English

Environmental concepts - physical and economic
Climate change
Air quality
The economics of noise
Safety
Amenity and severance
Transportation fuels - a system perspective
Fuel options
Cleaner vehicles
Carbon dioxide emissions from transportation: trends, driving factors, and forces for change
Transport energy and emissions: buses
Transport energy and emissions: urban public transport
Transport energy and emissions: aviation
Environmental impacts of shipping
Transport energy and emissions: rail
Environmental impact assessment for sustainable transport
Transport investment appraisal and the environment
Evaluation of environmental impacts
Valuation of environmental externalities
Valuation case studies
The health effects of motor vehicle-related air pollution
Environmental externalities of motor vehicle use
Valuation of safety
Location externalities: effects on modeling, infrastructure provision and optimal planning
Macroeconomic policies and the environment
History of environmental legislation
International coordination of environmental policies and multilateral environmental agreements
Environmental pricing in transport
Planning for sustainable environmental futures
Environmental justice applications in transport: the international perspective
Winners and losers in transport policy: on efficiency, equity, and compensation
Unintended effects of polices
Global warming and emission trading
Travel, tourism, and the environment
Gender, transportation, and the environment
Logistics and the environment
Reverse logistics: an overview and a causal model
Transportation of hazardous goods and materials
Public attitudes
Travel behavior change through individual engagement
Packaging policies to address environmental concerns
The street: integrating transport and urban environment
Integrated transport models for environmental assessment
Transportation demand management and "win-win" transportation solutions