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Geographies of Transport and Mobility
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Prospects and Challenges in an Age of Climate Change
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Artikel-Nr:
9780367362324
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.07.2020
Seiten:
184
Autor:
Stewart Barr
Gewicht:
286 g
Format:
234x156x11 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Stewart Barr is Professor of Geography and has worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Exeter since 2001. His current research focuses on critically understanding intellectual and policy discourses on behavioural change and sustainability.
Geographies of Transport and Mobility provides a comprehensive account of the challenges for personal mobility in the 21st century. It plots the intricate relationship between new forms of mobile technology, urban planning and social practices.
Part I: Contextualising Geographies of Transport and Mobility 1. Geographies of Transport; Geographies of Mobility 2. The 'Long Mobile Century': from streetcar suburbs to auto-mobility 3. Predict and Provide: technology, transport and planning in an age of climate change Part II: Approaches to Transport and Mobility 4. Transport Geography and Geographies of Mobility 5. Travel and Transport in Everyday Life 6. Consuming Places: leisure travel and the 'end of tourism' Part III: Sustainable Mobilities 7. Sustainable Mobility: the policy challenge 8. Sustainable Mobility: the challenge of behavioural change 9. Sustainable Mobility: planning better places to live and (not?) travel 10. Conclusion: what future for mobility?