The automotive industry in an era of eco-austerity
Subtitle: creating an industry as if the planet mattered
By: Peter E. Wells
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781848449671
Subjects: Sustainable development; Environmental aspects; Automobile industry and trade; Social responsibility of business
Description: This book analyses the future prospects of the largest manufacturing sector in the world, the automotive industry, at a time of unprecedented global financial crisis and unrelenting environmental pressure.--[back cover]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.171-192 )and index.
Table of contents: title: The automotive industry in crisis: economic and environmental failure; title: Diversity and the industrial ecology metaphor; title: Contemporary global diversity and cultures of automobility; title: Emergent diversity in the global automotive industry: the policy agenda; title: Alternative business models as the basis of a new industrial ecology of the automobile; title: Enablers and limiters of change.