Making Urban Transport Sustainable - (Global Issues) by N Low & B Gleeson (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Making Urban Transport Sustainable addresses the future of urban transport as a global issue. Money is being poured into roads, railways and airports at a time when the global atmosphere is threatened and oil production has reached its peak. If the world's environment and societies are to be sustained, urban transport has to change. Contributions by experts from the developed and developing world discuss the severity of the problem and suggest potential solutions.

About the Author

SWAPNA BANERJEE-GUHA Professor of Human Geography, University of Mumbai, India PAUL BARTER Lecturer, Geography Department, National University, Singapore CAREY CURTIS Lecturer, Curtin University, Australia CARLOS DESTEFANI Research Engineer, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia INGEMAR ELANDER Associate Professor in Political Science, Örebro University, Sweden GANG HU Research Scholar, University of Melbourne, Australia JEFF KENWORTHY Associate Professor, Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Australia FELIX LAUBE Swiss Federal Railways ROLF LIDSKOG Professor of Sociology, Örebro University, Sweden FUJIO MIZUOKA Professor of Economic Geography, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan PETER NEWMAN Professor of City Policy, Murdoch University, Australia ELIAS SIORES Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia HARTMUT STILLER Former Senior Fellow, Department of Material Flows and Structural Change, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy IZUMI TAKEDA Lecturer, Hokkaido University of Education, Japan EMIN TENGSTRÖM Research Professor of Transportation Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark JOHN WHITELEGG Professor of Environmental Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, UK CAMERON YEE Policy Director, People United for a Better Oakland (PUEBLO)