Institutional barriers to sustainable transport
By: by Nicholas Low and Carey Curtis
Contributors: Curtis, Carey
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780754676928; 9780754693901
Subjects: Social aspects; Urban transportation; Urban transportation policy; Environmental aspects; Sustainable development
Description: "In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical. This book presents an investigation of the institutional barriers preventing the development of a new vision for urban transport compatible with these realities and in those terms 'sustainable'. Through an examination of transport planning in Australia, the book challenges conventional wisdom by showing, through original research, how 'car dependence' is as much an institutional as a technical phenomenon..." --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Sustainable transport and institutional barriers; title: The irrationality of path dependence; title: Transport planning in Australia; title: How organizations shape infrastructure : roads organizations; title: How organizations shape infrastructure : public transport planning; title: Transport plans in Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth; title: The discourse of roads; title: The discourse of public transport; title: Stakeholder groups; title: Contemporary mental models; title: Overcoming the barriers.