Moving people : sustainable transport development /
The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before. Moving People provides an attention-grabbing introduction to the problems of transport and the development of sustainable alternatives, focusing on the often misunderstood issue of personal mobility, as oppos...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York : Cape Town, South Africa : New York :
Zed ; UCT Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
©2010.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Tables; Boxes; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1
- Movement and mobility; 2
- Sustainable development and ecomobility; 3
- The problem of car-dominance; 4
- Automobility and its alternatives; 5
- The city as a system: transport as network; 6
- Mobility in the megacity: Delhi; 7
- Non-motorised transport: walking and cycling; 8
- Bicycle and NMT programmes in action; 9
- Bicycles and rickshaws in South Asia; 10
- Institutional changes; Conclusion; References; Index.