Transport, the environment and economic policy

Bibliographic Information

Transport, the environment and economic policy

Kenneth Button

E. Elgar, c1993

Available at  / 46 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Includes bibliography (p. [153]-161) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The impact of transport on the global environment is an issue attracting world-wide attention in the 1990s. This important book sheds new light on the environmental costs of transport. It discusses all modes of transport and their effects of major problems such as greenhouse gases, depletion of non-renewable resources, urban sprawl, acid rain, oil spillage etc. Drawing on the most recent research in environmental economics, it discusses problems of regulation and the implications for economic policy. This genuinely international and comparative book will be essential reading for economists, transport planners, policymakers and environmental scientists.

Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Transport System and Transport Policy 3. The Environmental Effects of Transport 4. Evaluating the Environment 5. Economic Causes of Environmental Degradation 6. Intervention Failures 7. Instruments of Economic Policy: Fiscal Tools 8. Non-Fiscal Policy Instruments 8. Political Economy of Policy

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top