Overview
- Considers transport effects in all environments
- Discusses future designs of transport systems to minimize environmental degradation
- Describes methods of amelioration of the damaging effects of transport on the environment
Part of the book series: Environmental Pollution (EPOL, volume 10)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Human transport by land, sea and air has increased exponentially through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, prosperity and rates of technological change. Transport has considerable ecological effects, many of them detrimental to environmental sustainability. This volume brings together international experts from a variety of disciplines to review the ecological effects and their causes in terms of road, rail, ship and aircraft transport. The contributors have different attitudes and agendas. Some are ecologists, some planners, others social scientists. Focus ranges from identification of threats and amelioration of damaging effects through to future design of transport systems to minimize environmental degradation. Some chapters consider restricted areas of the globe; others the globe itself. Views encompass deep pessimism and cautious optimism.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment
Editors: John Davenport, Julia L. Davenport
Series Title: Environmental Pollution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4504-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4503-5Published: 11 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7137-8Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4504-2Published: 30 June 2006
Series ISSN: 1566-0745
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1702
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 393
Topics: Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environmental Management, Applied Ecology