Land Transport and How to Unlock Investment in Support of "Green Growth":

"Green growth" and transport combines several different concepts that are central to sustainable mobility, including sustainable economic activity, reduced environmental impact and sustained growth in high quality jobs. It attempts to balance the importance of economic growth, with environ...

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1. Verfasser: Banister, David (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Crist, Philippe (MitwirkendeR), Perkins, Stephen (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Paris OECD Publishing 2015
Schriftenreihe:OECD Green Growth Papers no.2015/01
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Zusammenfassung:"Green growth" and transport combines several different concepts that are central to sustainable mobility, including sustainable economic activity, reduced environmental impact and sustained growth in high quality jobs. It attempts to balance the importance of economic growth, with environmental damage and social priorities through assessing positive actions that can be taken by a wide variety of public and private stakeholders. It has arisen out of the concern over the use of non-renewable resources in transport, increasing emissions of carbon and other pollutants, and the expected levels of growth in mobility over the next 40 years. But it also acknowledges the importance of transport to the economy, and its role in helping to create jobs, improving levels of productivity and output, and in promoting agglomeration benefits. This means that transport should be efficient, but at the same time make less demand on the environment through less use of resources, through recycling and reuse of materials, and through embracing a life cycle perspective...
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (35 p.) 21 x 29.7cm.
DOI:10.1787/5js65xnk52kc-en

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