Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil

ISBN-13: 9781844072484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 376 str.

Richard Gilbert; Anthony Perl

Opis

'Transport Revolutions' sets out the challenges to our dependence on transport fuelled by low-price oil. The book proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.

Spis treści

Preface * Introduction: Transport Revolutions Ahead * Learning from Past Transport Revolutions * Transport Today * Transport and Energy * Transport‘s Adverse Impacts * The Next Transport Revolutions * Leading the Way Forward * Index

O autorze

Richard Gilbert is a Toronto-based consultant who focuses on transport and energy issues, with recent public- and private-sector clients in North America, Europe and Asia. Anthony Perl is a Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he directs the Urban Studies Program.