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Geographies of transport and mobility : prospects and challenges in an age of climate change /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barr, Stewart, 1976- (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Prillwitz, Jan (co-author.), Ryley, Tim (co-author.), Shaw, Gareth (co-author.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Series:Transport and mobility series.
Subjects:
Transportation > Social aspects.
Transportation > Environmental aspects.
Travel > Social aspects.
Travel > Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Human geography.
Sustainability.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Contextualising geographies of transport and mobility
  • Geographies of transport, geographies of mobility
  • The "long mobile century" : from streetcar suburbs to auto-mobility
  • Predict and provide : technology, transport and planning in an age of climate change
  • Part II. Approaches to transport and mobility
  • Transport geography and geographies of mobility
  • Travel and transport in everyday life
  • Consuming places : leisure travel and the "end of tourism"
  • Part III. Sustainable mobilities
  • Sustainable mobility : the policy challenge
  • Sustainable mobility : the challenge of behavioural change
  • Sustainable mobility : planning better places to live and (not?) travel
  • Conclusion: What future for mobility?