The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Davenport, John (Editor), Davenport, Julia L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Environmental Pollution, 10
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Ecology.; Applied ecology.; Environmental management.; Life Sciences.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Environmental Management.; Applied Ecology.

Human transport by land, sea and air has increased exponentially through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, prosperity and rates of technological change. Transport has considerable ecological effects, many of them detrimental to environmental sustainability. This volume brings toget...