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Managing transport energy : power for a sustainable future / edited by James Warren.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Energy for a sustainable futurePublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: ix, 174 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0199215774 (pbk.)
  • 9780199215775 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 620.042 WAR
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan Moylish Library Main Collection 620.042 WAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100352864

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Despite targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions, and the prospect of petroleum resources becoming increasingly scarce, road transport energy use is at an all-time peak in many countries. How can our transport system survive into the future? What must change, and how can these changes be implemented? Managing Transport Energy tackles head-on the challenges of managing transport and its energy use in the current world. Taking a truly interdisciplinary approach to the subject, it integrates the technological aspects of energy supply and issues of energy conservation with the social and behavioural issues of energy use. Examining the technological options that are available to us - including hybrid engines, biofuels, and hydrogen cells - the book goes on to explore how sustainable transport policies can be developed to make the most of emerging technologies, while reducing our dependence on the energy systems used most heavily today. Having a sustainable transport infrastructure is a vital part of our future; Managing Transport Energy is the ideal resource for anyone wishing to develop a broad, balanced understanding of this important field. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre features figures from the book available to download, for adopters of the text.

In association with the Open University.

This book forms part of an Open University course T206 Energy for a sustainable future--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Stephen Potter: Sustainability, energy conservation and personal transport
  • 2 Ben Lane and James Warren: Sustainable road transport technologies
  • 3 Stephen Potter and Marcus Enoch: Mobility management in organisations
  • 4 Marcus Enoch and Stephen Potter: Travel planning
  • Conclusion

Author notes provided by Syndetics

James Warren is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Open University in East Anglia, where he is a member of the Energy and Environment Research Unit.

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