Environmental External Costs of Transport
By: edited by Rainer Friedrich, Peter Bickel
Contributors: Bickel, Peter
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9783642075889; 9783662043295
Subjects: Environmental economics; Engineering; Environmental sciences; Industrial organization (Economic theory); Environmental protection
Description: Transport causes a wide range of damage to human health, ecosystems and materials. This damage should be taken into account when making decisions, i.e. it should be reflected in the prices for transport. The damagae caused by cars, planes, ships and trains should be calculated and transformed into monetary values - so called external costs. In this book we endeavour to evaluate the external costs stemming from the emissions of atmospheric pollutants caused by transport, including damage from greenhouse gases, fine particles, ozone, nitrous oxides and benzene as well as other carciogenic substances, so as to be able to calculate the external costs of a huge number of current and future modes of transport operating in different locations all over Europe. The results offer an important basis for assessing modes of transport, discussing transport taxes and charges and implementing green accounting.
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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Impact Pathway Methodology; title: 3. Emission Calculation; title: 4. Atmospheric Transport Modelling; title: 5. Health Effects; title: 6. Impacts on Building Materials; title: 7. Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems; title: 8. Economic Valuation, Sustainability Indicators and Alternative Assessment Techniques; title: 9. Global Warming; title: 10. Treatment of Up-and Downstream Processes; title: 11. Uncertainty; title: 12. Quantification of Total and Average Externalities (Aggregation); title: 13. Marginal Costs; title: 14. Aggregated Costs; title: 15. Policy Case Studies; title: 16. Summary.