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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... road 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 ...
... road 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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... freight is extremely polluting . Each tonne - km of air freight will produce ... road at 3,890kj , rail at 677kj and water at 423kj for the same amount of ... road freight and the environmental impact of road transport . This impact also ...
... freight is extremely polluting . Each tonne - km of air freight will produce ... road at 3,890kj , rail at 677kj and water at 423kj for the same amount of ... road freight and the environmental impact of road transport . This impact also ...
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Transport, Environment and Society in the 21st Century John Whitelegg. These changes in freight transport have been driven by a dramatic increase in the need to move food , drink and tobacco by road ... road freight journey . This was 54 ...
Transport, Environment and Society in the 21st Century John Whitelegg. These changes in freight transport have been driven by a dramatic increase in the need to move food , drink and tobacco by road ... road freight journey . This was 54 ...
Table des matières
What Time is This Place? | 5 |
Figures | 9 |
amount of time spent in transport | 38 |
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