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Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2004-06-10
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9264106642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAchieving environmentally sustainable transport (EST) will require widespread acceptance of the need for EST, and a mix of measures designed to overcome the barriers to EST. This proceedings examines the measures needed.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002-08-27
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9264176241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the findings and analysis of the OECD Environmentally Sustainable Transport Project.
Author: Rodney Tolley
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003-09-10
Total Pages: 740
ISBN-13: 9780849317835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith a wide range of contributions from America, Australia, Europe as well as the UK, Creating Sustainable Transport sums up many of the lessons learned and how they can be applied in improved planning. Non-motorized transport planning depends on combining improvements to infrastructure with education. The book examines both national strategies and local initiatives in cities around the world, including such topics as changes to existing road infrastructure and the integration of cycling and walking with public transport. The contributors consider topics such as developing healthier travel habits and ways of promoting cycling and walking as alternatives to the car.
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Environment Ministers of OECD member countries endorsed the Guidelines for moving towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport (EST) at their meeting in May 2001. These Guidelines are based on the results and conclusions of the EST project involving many OECD and non-OECD countries and provide a solution to making transport policy more sustainable and enhancing quality of life. They have been developed to encourage economic development and individual welfare without causing undue health and environmental impacts and the depletion of finite resources. Effective implementation of the EST Guidelines requires strategies that accommodate the particular geographic and socio-economic conditions of countries or regions.These guidelines may also be of value in the sustainable development of other sectors. [From OECD website]
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002-10-24
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9264199292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication presents and explains the OECD Guidelines towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport, which have been developed to help governments enable economic development and individual welfare without causing undue health and environmental impacts and depletion of finite resources.
Author: Martin S. Shanguhyia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1000721752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopment in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives contributes to our understanding of Africa’s experiences with the development process. It does so by adopting a historical and contemporary analysis of this experience. The book is set within the context of critiques on development in Africa that have yielded two general categories of analysis: skepticism and pessimism. While not overlooking the shortcomings of development, the themes in the book express an optimistic view of Africa’s development experiences, highlighting elements that can be tapped into to enhance the condition of African populations and their states. By using case studies from precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa, contributors to the volume demonstrate that human instincts to improve material, social and spiritual words are universal. They are not limited to the Western world, which the term and process of development are typically associated with. Before and after contact with the West, Africans have actively created institutions and values that they have actively employed to improve individual and community lives. This innovative spirit has motivated Africans to integrate or experiment with new values and structures, challenges, and solutions to human welfare that resulted from contact with colonialism and the postcolonial global community. The book will be of interest to academics in the fields of history, African studies, and regional studies.
Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2004-03-10
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9282113132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report makes recommendations for good practice bringing the results of economic appraisals and environmental assessments before decision makers in the transport sector on the basis of reviews of recent experience in infrastructure planning and policy development in seven countries.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2001-04-05
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9264188568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe OECD Environmental Outlook provides economy-based projections of environmental pressures and changes in the state of the environment to 2020.
Author: William Richard Black
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002-11-29
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780253340672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransportation research has traditionally been dominated by engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic changes, which increasingly govern the development of the transportation sector. The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including geography and regional science, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries. Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo, the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls, potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric car.
Author: Henrik Gudmundsson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-03
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 3662469243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, indicators and frameworks for measuring sustainable development in the transportation sector are developed. In the second, the authors analyze actual planning and decision-making in transportation agencies in a variety of governance settings. This analysis of real-world case studies demonstrates the benefits and limitations of current approaches to sustainable development in transportation. The book concludes with a discussion on how to make sustainability count in transportation decision-making and practice.
