Overview
- Contains contributions from leading researchers and practitioners worldwide concerned with the effect of transport on global warming Proposes solutions to reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions caused by transport Compares problems between and customizes strategies for developed and developing countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Transportation Research, Economics and Policy (TRES)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Climate Control: The Long-Term Challenge
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Climate Control: The Long-term Challenge
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Economic Crisis: A Chance for Climate Friendly Innovations in the Transport Sector
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Industrialized Countries: Experimental Protoyping
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Developing and Transition Countries: Changing from Followers to Leaders
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Developing&Transition Countries: Changing from Followers to Leaders
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Instruments for Carbon Mitigation Policy in the Transport Sector
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About this book
Transportation contributes to roughly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, and as a growing sector of the economy, its contribution to climate change, if remained unchanged, could even grow. This is particularly true in the developing world, where the growth rates of air and ship transport are expected to exceed those of the EU, and worldwide objectives to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by sixty to eighty percent could be placed in serious jeopardy. This book addresses the key issues of controlling transportation growth and identifying and implementing measures that would significantly reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from transport while maintaining its vital role in generating prosperity and mobility for future generations. This book describes the challenge that transport constitutes today as well as its role in the future for climate policy. It will discuss and provide hands-on suggestions for transportation policy that will mitigate the greenhouse gas emissions from transport.
The book is organized into five parts. Part One presents an overview of transport and climate policy in the context of the recent economic crisis. Part Two examines the problems and proposed solutions for curbing emissions from transport in industrialized countries while Parts Three and Four deal with the developing world, with a particular focus on India and China. Part Five discusses tested solutions and provides policy recommendations making this book of interest to a broad audience of both policy-makers and academics concerned with the role of transport in reducing global climate change.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transport Moving to Climate Intelligence
Book Subtitle: New Chances for Controlling Climate Impacts of Transport after the Economic Crisis
Editors: Werner Rothengatter, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Wolfgang Schade
Series Title: Transportation Research, Economics and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7643-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7642-0Published: 07 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2852-7Published: 28 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7643-7Published: 31 March 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-4387
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 316
Topics: Environmental Economics, Climate Change Management and Policy, Economic Policy, Regional/Spatial Science