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Plane truth : aviation's real impact on people and the environment /
An engaging critical account of the aviation industry, which debunks a number of misconceptions and self-justifying myths.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acronyms; Glossary; A Note on the Text; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Future of Flight; The World's Busiest Airports; The Supersonic Dead End; Aviation and the Global Greenhouse; Frequent Flyers; Regulatory Avoidance; The Future Fleet; 2 Feeding the Fuel Tanks; Alternative Fuels; Crop Failure; Bombs not Food; Green Crude; Cooking Oil and Cellulose; 3 Local Environmental Impacts; Localised Air Pollution; Sweet Poison; On Flood Plains; Fuel Leaks; Fires Far Away; 4 Threats to Wildlife and Farmland; The Winged Menace.
- Loss of Green SpaceOn Indian Farmland; 5 Green Garnish; Green Power; Greenwash; Passenger Processing; 6 Air Cargo; Multimodal Cargo; Flying Refrigerators; Another Ethiopia; 7 Industrial Cargo; Airlinked Assembly Lines; The Cargo Giants; For the Oil Industry; Extreme Oil; Remote Resource Extraction; 8 Arms, Aid and Accidents; Arms and Aid to Africa; Africa's Abysmal Air Safety Record; Crashes and Conflict in DR Congo; From Reconnaissance to Rendition; 9 Concrete and Overcapacity; Stimulus and Subsidies; An Airport to Nowhere; The OMP Boondoggle; Overcapacity in Illinois; 10 Counting the Costs.
- The Taxpayers' BurdenFlag Carrier Bailouts; Economic Doubts; Jobs for Robots; Destinations in Their Own Right; 11 Real Estate and Revenue Streams; On Airport Land; Shops and Solar Panels; Cashing in on Green Space; Site Struggles; Money on the Ground; Shale Gas Hotspots; 12 How Aviation Keeps Growing; The Importance of Non-Aeronautical Revenue; The Oil Price; Forecasts and the Future; Appendix: NGOs working to address the environmental and economic impacts of aviation expansion; Notes; Index.