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UNINA9910462256603321 |
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Autore |
Curtis Carey |
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Titolo |
Institutional barriers to sustainable transport [[electronic resource] /] / Carey Curtis, Nicholas Low |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-11587-2 |
1-317-11586-4 |
1-283-59100-6 |
9786613903457 |
0-7546-9390-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Collana |
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Transport and mobility series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Urban transportation - Environmental aspects |
Urban transportation policy |
Urban transportation - Social aspects |
Sustainable development |
Urban transportation policy - Australia |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Sustainable transport and institutional barriers -- The irrationality of path dependence -- Transport planning in Australia -- How organizations shape infrastructure : roads organizations -- How organizations shape infrastructure : public transport planning -- Transport plans in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth -- The discourse of roads -- The discourse of public transport -- Stakeholder groups -- Contemporary mental models -- Overcoming the barriers. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, this book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon. The authors' case studies in three metropolitan cities show how transport policy has become institutionally fixated on a path dominated by private, road-based transport and how policy systems |
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