Citation
(2013), "Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility", International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 5 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-08-2013-0101
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Moving Towards Low Carbon Mobility
Article Type: Books and resources From: International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Volume 5, Issue 4
Edited by M. Givoni and D. Banister
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Cheltenham
2013
320 pp.
US$ 99.00
ISBN 9781781007228
The transport sector has been singularly unsuccessful in becoming low carbon and less resource intensive. This book takes an innovative and holistic social, cultural and behavioural perspective, as well as covering the more conventional economic and technological dimensions, to provide a more complete understanding of the mobility and transport system and its progress towards high carbon mobility. The book uses this platform to explore the means to achieve low carbon mobility through outlining alternative pathways, through an investigation of theories of change, and through alternative visions of the low carbon transport city. The books core message is that the complexity of the mobility and transport system should not encourage inaction, but strong and immediate action. In addition to implementing a wide range of policy measures, the book argues for a fundamental change in “thinking when it comes to transport policy, governance and analysis approaches, before low carbon mobility becomes a reality.