Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david banister

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  • THE IMPERATIVES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    ERLING HOLDEN / KRISTIN LINNERUD / DAVID BANISTER / VALERIA SCHWANITZ / AUGUST WIERLING
    Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This...

    $1,260.00

  • TRANSPORT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CITY
    ROBIN HICKMAN / DAVID BANISTER
    Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities in Asia. Progress however appears difficult to make as the private car, still largely fuelled by petrol or diesel, remains the mainstream mode of use. Transport is the key sector where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions s...

    $1,420.00

  • INTEGRATED TRANSPORT
    GIVONI, MOSHE / BANISTER, DAVID
    Travel is an essential part of everyday life and today most journeys are multimodal.  It is the total travel experience that counts and integrated transport must reduce the inconvenience of transfers between modes.  Most research and many publications on transport policy advocate sustainable transport, but the priority given to integration has been negligible.  Yet integration ...

    $1,320.00

  • UNSUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
    DAVID BANISTER
    This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores these links in more detail at city level, covering land use and development, economic measures, a...

    $1,760.00

  • TRANSPORT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
    DAVID BANISTER
    The editor and his contributors take an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links. Authors from six countries - all experts in this area - have been commissioned to write chapters on the theoretical debates and more practical issues, via the use of detailed case stud...

    $1,320.00

  • TRANSPORT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    DAVID BANISTER / JOSEPH BERECHMAN
    A major concern of all decision makers has been to ensure that there are clear benefits from transport investment proposals. The travel time savings are clear, but the wider economic developments have presented enormous difficulty in terms of both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. This book reviews the history of the debate and argues that the agenda has changed.The...

    $1,800.00

  • TRANSPORT POLICY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    BANISTER, DAVID
    There is currently considerable concern with limiting the growth of transport demand, the use of resources and related pollution. This book makes a major contribution to the debate on transport and the environment and is likely to become a benchmark against which new research will be developed. Transport Policy and the Environment presents for the first time the results of exte...

    $1,240.00

  • EUROPEAN TRANSPORT POLICY AND SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
    JONAS AKERMAN / DAVID BANISTER / KARL DREBORG / PETER NIJKAMP / RUGGERO SCHLEICHER-TAPPESER / DOMINIC STE
    It is now widely accepted that transport is becoming increasingly unsustainable and that strong policy intervention is required to reduce both the growth in transport demand and the environmental costs of transport. This book challenges conventional approaches to transport by moving away from trend based analysis towards the use of scenarios to identify alternative sustainable ...

    $1,600.00

  • THE IMPERATIVES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    ERLING HOLDEN / KRISTIN LINNERUD / DAVID BANISTER
    Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987), Our Common Future, this revised, updated, and extended second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. The model presented identifies sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them...

    $1,160.00