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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... freight , and not the loss of freight from rail to road . Freight transport issues are central to the achievement of sustainable development objectives and are returned to in Chapters 5 and 12. The continuing growth of road freight ...
... freight , and not the loss of freight from rail to road . Freight transport issues are central to the achievement of sustainable development objectives and are returned to in Chapters 5 and 12. The continuing growth of road freight ...
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Transport, Environment and Society in the 21st Century John Whitelegg. greater use of road vehicles , aircraft and pipelines . In western Europe , for example , over the period 1970-90 inland freight ... freight carried by rail decreased at ...
Transport, Environment and Society in the 21st Century John Whitelegg. greater use of road vehicles , aircraft and pipelines . In western Europe , for example , over the period 1970-90 inland freight ... freight carried by rail decreased at ...
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... freight transport through ' lean production ' . He demonstrates how new forms of regional cooperation amongst ... freight transport would produce this shift in organisation and spatial structure . It is clear from the work of Strutynski ...
... freight transport through ' lean production ' . He demonstrates how new forms of regional cooperation amongst ... freight transport would produce this shift in organisation and spatial structure . It is clear from the work of Strutynski ...
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Perranporth and China | 1 |
Figures | 9 |
A Faustian Bargain | 17 |
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