Critical Mass: Transport, Environment and Society in the 21st CenturyPluto Press, 20 sept. 1997 - 251 pages Despite demanding enormous resources, transport policies are incapable of resolving basic problems of safety, health, welfare and congestion. This book, pointing out that car-dependency is shared throughout Europe, Asia and North America, argues that the problems can only be solved globally by a shared recognition of common needs. In addition, with transport inextricabley linked with consumerism and the lifestyles that car ownership has created, the book argues that the challenge is to replace the current technology with an alternative that is sustainable and will solve the fundamental problems of poverty, inequity and social development. |
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... air quality at a time when there are international agreements in place to reduce NO , emissions . X Airport expansion is a significant environmental problem . It conflicts with sustainable development objectives , damages the atmosphere ...
... air quality at a time when there are international agreements in place to reduce NO , emissions . X Airport expansion is a significant environmental problem . It conflicts with sustainable development objectives , damages the atmosphere ...
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... air quality monitoring : It has been incontrovertibly established that ambient ( outdoor ) air quality measured at fixed monitoring stations designed to represent community exposures in general , significantly underestimates the ...
... air quality monitoring : It has been incontrovertibly established that ambient ( outdoor ) air quality measured at fixed monitoring stations designed to represent community exposures in general , significantly underestimates the ...
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... air quality was directly associated with 160 excess deaths ( additional to the expected rate ) during a four - day period . The cause of this poor air quality is described by the Royal Commission thus : The correlation of concentrations ...
... air quality was directly associated with 160 excess deaths ( additional to the expected rate ) during a four - day period . The cause of this poor air quality is described by the Royal Commission thus : The correlation of concentrations ...
Table des matières
What Time is This Place? | 5 |
Figures | 9 |
amount of time spent in transport | 38 |
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