Contesting aviation expansion : depoliticisation, technologies of government and post-aviation futures /

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This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impacts on local communities and climate change. The authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to flying, laying the ground for a m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Griggs, Steven, 1962- (Autor), Howarth, David R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : University of Bristol Press, 2023.
Temas:
Aircraft industry > Environmental aspects > Great Britain.
Airports.
Airports > Environmental aspects.
Aircraft industry.
Industrie aéronautique > Aspect de l'environnement > Grande-Bretagne.
Aéroports > Aspect de l'environnement.
Industrie aéronautique.
Aircraft industry
Aircraft industry > Environmental aspects
Airports
Airports > Environmental aspects
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction:
  • Problematising the dilemmas of UK airport expansion - puzzles and research strategies
  • 1. Depoliticisation, discourse and policy hegemony
  • 2. Governing by numbers: fantasies of forecasting, 'predict and provide' and the technologies of government
  • 3. The anatomy of an expert Commission: Howard Davies, rhetorical reframing and the performance of leadership
  • 4. Repoliticising aviation policy: law, planning and persistent activism
  • 5. Extreme turbulence: problematisations, multiple crises and new demands
  • 6. 'What if...?' A manifestor for the green transformation of aviation
  • Conclusion: Staying grounded
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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