Experimenting for sustainable transport : the approach of strategic niche management / / Remco Hoogma. [et al.]

• Autore: Hoogma Remco
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Spon Press, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 388
• Soggetto topico: Transportation - Environmental aspects; Transportation and state; Sustainable development; Technological innovations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Authors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 01 Technological Fixes; 02 Nurtured Spaces; 03 Promises for Sustainable Transport; 04 Experiments in Electrifying Mobility; 05 Experiments in Reconfiguring Mobility; 06 Strategic Niche Management; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumpt
• Titolo autorizzato: Experimenting for sustainable transport
• ISBN: 1-134-48821-1; 1-134-48822-X; 9786610112982; 1-280-11298-0; 0-203-99406-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348241703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transport, development and sustainability.