| The Politics of Mobility: Transport Planning, the Environment and Public Policy Contributor(s): Vigar, Geoff (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415259177 ISBN-13: 9780415259170 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $68.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Examines the idea that a "predict and provide" approach is being displaced by an emergent "new realism" in transport planning. This shift entails the development of demand management as a potential new discourse for the discipline with implications for the relevance of this discourse in wider governance contexts. The book presents case studies of local transport policy-making and in-depth analysis of UK national transport policy in the period 1987-2000 to highlight how policy was promoted and resisted. Unlike other contemporary studies of transport policy-making, it does this through pioneering a detailed methodological and theoretical framework derived from the social and political sciences. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General |
| Dewey: 388 |
| LCCN: 2001042904 |
| Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.26" W x 9.44" (0.86 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Transport issues are critically embedded in everyday life. For this very reason, ways of addressing such issues are almost always hugely politically contentious, as a quick glance at local and national media will testify. Such contentiousness is growing as ever increasing mobility for many in western society has led to a critical examination of the fundamental basis by which transport issues are considered in government and beyond. Despite the strength of this examination, the implementation of new approaches to dealing with transport issues has proved deeply problematic. The Politics of Mobility pioneers a methodological and theoretical framework derived from the social and political sciences to shed light on the complexities of dealing with these issues. It mobilises three case studies that highlight the realpolitik of dealing with such concerns for students, practitioners, researchers and activists. |
