Cars and Carbon Automobiles and European Climate Policy in a Global Context /

This volume contains articles from leading analysts and researchers on sustainable transportation, who provide critical reflections on how automobile-related climate policies have evolved up to now in Europe and around the world, in view of the widely recognized need to substantially curb global emi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Zachariadis, Theodoros I. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
Environment.
Transportation engineering.
Traffic engineering.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Environmental economics.
Environmental Sciences.
Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Environmental Economics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • PART I: Background - Automobiles and Climate Change
  • 2. The Attractiveness of Car Use
  • 3. The Importance of Passenger Cars for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Today and Tomorrow
  • PART II: European Union Policies
  • 4. The Past and the Future of EU Regulatory Policies to Reduce Road Transport Carbon Emissions
  • 5. Fuel Policies in the EU: Lessons Learned from the Past and Outlook for the Future
  • 6. Fuel Taxation, Regulations and Selective Incentives: Striking the Balance
  • 7. The Right EU Policy Framework For Reducing Car CO2 Emissions
  • PART III: National Policies
  • 8. CO2-Based Taxation of Motor Vehicles
  • 9. Fuel Taxation in Europe
  • 10. Passenger Road Transport During Transition and Post-Transition Period: Residential Fuel Consumption and Fuel Taxation in the Czech Republic
  • 11. Accelerated Introduction of 'Clean' Cars in Sweden
  • 12. Making People Independent From the Car - Multimodality as a Strategic Concept To Reduce CO2-Emissions
  • 13. National Road User Charging: Theory and Implementation
  • PART IV: The International Context
  • 14. Mobility Management Solutions to Transport Problems Around The World
  • 15. Automobiles and Climate Policy in the Rest of OECD
  • 16. Transport and Climate Policy in the Developing World - The Region That Matters Most
  • 17. Epilogue - The Future of the Automobile: CO2 May Not Be the Great Decider
  • Index.

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