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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777423903321

Titolo

Atmospheric change and the North American transportation sector [[electronic resource] ] : summary of a trilateral workshop / / by the Steering Committee on Atmospheric Change and the North American Transportation Sector of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy of Sciences, 1998

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (33 p.)

Disciplina

551.6

Soggetti

Climatic changes

Transportation - Environmental aspects

Greenhouse gases - Environmental aspects

Transportation - Energy conservation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Atmospheric Change and the North American Transportation Sector: Summary of a Trilateral Workshop""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""The Economic Importance of the Transportation Sector in North America""; ""Evolution of the North American Transportation Sector""; ""Atmospheric Changes Resulting from Transportation Activities""; ""Mobile source emissions""; ""Local and regional scale atmospheric changes""; ""Global scale atmospheric changes""; ""Impacts of These Atmospheric Changes""; ""Ecosystem impacts of air pollution""

""Human health impacts of air pollution""""Impacts of global atmospheric changes""; ""Reducing the Impacts of the North American Transportation Sector""; ""TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS: CHANGING VEHICLE FLEET CHARACTERISTICS""; ""Future technologies""; ""Public/private partnerships""; ""Regulatory tools""; ""SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS: CHANGING INDIVIDUALS' USE DECISIONS""; ""APPROACHES CURRENTLY BEING USED IN THE THREE COUNTRIES""; ""REDUCING THE IMPACTS � SUMMARY""; ""Trilateral Cooperation""; ""Scientific Issues""; ""Technological and policy issues""; ""Critical



Research Topics""

""Scientific issues""""Technological and policy issues""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Program""; ""TRILATERAL WORKSHOP ON ATMOSPHERIC CHANGE AND THE NORTH AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION SECTOR""