A New Deal for Transport?
A New Deal for Transport?

Author: Iain Docherty

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1444355511

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Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy. A critical commentary on the Blair government's sustainable transport policy and its implementation. Firmly rooted in an appreciation of the politics of this controversial field. Experts contribute up-to-the-minute analyses of the key issues. Will inform debate over the future of transport policy. Includes a Foreword by David Begg, Chair of the Commission for Integrated Transport.

Integrated Futures and Transport Choices
Integrated Futures and Transport Choices

Author: Julian Hine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1351769626

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This title was first published in 2003. The UK transport White Paper "A New Deal for Transport" and new Transport Acts for England, Wales and Scotland have indicated and defined the future direction and policy agenda of national governments. The need for integrated transport raises key policy issues, among which are: the importance of sustainability; and the integration of transport policy with other areas of public policy, such as social exclusion and health. The idea of this direction in policy has implications for the changing nature of work, traveller information, interchange and public transport, freight distribution and the use of new technology. This volume also examines key areas of policy and regulation, which are developing as a result of the White Paper and the new Transport Acts. The volume brings together leading UK academics in the field of transport studies to discuss and reflect on these issues, and the state of transport policy in the UK within this new and developing policy framework.

Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning
Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning

Author: Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1134238118

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This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of territory, identity and space in a devolved UK, through the lens of spatial planning. It draws together leading internationally renowned researchers from a variety of disciplines to address the implications of devolution upon spatial planning and the rescaling of UK politics. Each contributor offers a different perspective on the core issues in planning today in the context of New Labour’s regional project, particularly the government’s concern with business competitiveness, and key themes are illustrated with important case studies throughout.

Environmental Taxation Law
Environmental Taxation Law

Author: John Snape

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 781

ISBN-13: 1317142144

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The theoretical arguments for environmental taxes and other types of economic instruments for environmental protection have been discussed extensively in the literature. Rather less well discussed has been the extremely complex form that such instruments have in fact taken in practice. Environmental Taxation Law: Policy, Contexts and Practice examines the legal implications of introducing environmental taxes and other economic instruments into the regulatory framework of UK law. In doing so, it analyzes and explains the difficulties of grafting environmental taxes onto the complexities of existing regulatory structures, not all of which, of course, were originally devised with environmental considerations in mind. Although the focus of the book is the UK's pioneering implementation of a web of distinct yet interrelated policy measures, it locates the UK's taxes and instruments not simply in their broader context of market and environmental regulation, but also in the contexts of European and international law.

Environmental Law for The Built Environment
Environmental Law for The Built Environment

Author: Jack Rostron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-04

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1135340781

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An exposition of the relevant law and the techniques commonly used to meet the regulatory requirements concerning the built environment. Each chapter deals with a discrete topic, combining law, policy and administrative aspects with the engineering, technological and management remedies available.

British Social Attitudes
British Social Attitudes

Author: Alison Park

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-11-18

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1848606052

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′...the annual survey of British social attitudes - a document arguably more significant than the urban and rural white papers rolled together...′ New Start ′...fascinating snapshot.′ The Guardian ′...a highly-respected annual study.′ Daily Mail ′...an indispensable tool not just for governments, but also for modern citizens to understand their fellows, and themselves better.′ The Times Higher Education Supplement The British Social Attitudes survey series is carried out by Britain′s largest independent social research institute, the National Centre for Social Research. It provides an indispensable guide to current political and social issues in contemporary Britain. This, the 22nd report, describes the results of the most recent nation-wide survey, including analysis of the following areas: - Work-life balance - The NHS - Education - Pensions - Europe The most comprehensive review of changing British social values available, the British Social Attitudes survey report is an essential reading for anyone seeking a guide to the topical issues and debates of today or engaged in contemporary social and political research.

Land and Limits
Land and Limits

Author: Susan Owens

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1136834826

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The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy. In the decade since the book was first conceived, environmental imperatives have risen still further up the policial agenda and land use conflicts have intensified, lending even greater importance to the authors' research. In a rigorous discussion of concepts, policy instruments and contemporary planning dilemmas, the authors challenge prevailing assumptions about planning for sustainability. After charting the remarkable growth in expectations of planning, they show how attempts to interpret sustainability must lead to fundamental moral and political choices.

Sustainability in European Transport Policy
Sustainability in European Transport Policy

Author: Matthew Humphreys

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-11-19

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1136876200

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This book sets out a critical analysis of the body of law and policy initiatives that constitute the EU's common transport policy. The development of the transport policy is charted through amending and founding Treaties as well as non-legislative documents. The book uses a model of sustainability as the basis for the analysis as the criteria for sustainable development were set out under Article 11 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. However, sustainable development, when taken in the context of transport is difficult to reconcile with unbridled economic growth and unchecked freedom of movement and the book identifies a contradiction at the heart of European policy, which can only become more accentuated as environmental trends become more explicit. The book argues that European regulation will eventually be forced to recognize this dichotomy, and take more forceful action to protect environmental and social development, even at the cost of economic progress.