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Sustainable Mobility Cultures and the SDGs: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

Definition

Mobility culture is an inter- and transdisciplinary analytical concept in transportation and mobility research across disciplines, stemming from social sciences, geography, and related fields. It includes infrastructure, built environment and technology as well as political and societal discourses, social and cultural practices, and behavior and attitudes concerning mobility. It combines physical and spatial structures with social practices and covers the individual as well as the collective plane of society. The concept can be employed to frame development, in a comparative spatial sense or in a comparative temporal sense.

Sustainable Mobility Cultures

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do not address mobility as a singular goal, but the concept of mobility is closely connected to the achievement of all targets of SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities.Mobility is indispensable for social participation and therefore an integral part of a just and inclusive...

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  1. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Jennifer Bosen

  2. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute Gender and Diversity in Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Carmen Leicht-Scholten

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Bosen, J., Leicht-Scholten, C. (2020). Sustainable Mobility Cultures and the SDGs: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_118-1

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