Moving Millions: Transport Strategies for Sustainable by F. Moavenzadeh, M.J. Markow

By F. Moavenzadeh, M.J. Markow

This ebook has been a number of years within the making. It has grown out of simple parts of inquiry all started less than the auspices of the Alliance for international Sustainability within the past due Nineties, and has culminated with a sequence of on-site, collaborative reports carried out via AGS in cooperation with of?cials in Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China (PRC), through the early 2000s. many people have made vital contributions to the guidelines, ?ndings, and effects which were compiled during this quantity. The authors desire to realize those signi?cant contributions less than. The Alliance for worldwide Sustainability is a global partnership between 4 of the best scienti?c and technological universities around the world: • The Massachusetts Institute of expertise (MIT-AGS); • The collage of Tokyo (UT); • The Swiss Federal Institute of expertise (ETH); and • The Chalmers college of know-how. Created in 1997, the AGS this present day brings jointly 1000's of college scientists, engineers, and social scientists to deal with complicated concerns that lie on the intersection of environmental, monetary, and social coverage objectives. for the reason that its inception, the AGS has promoted and supported multidisciplinary learn groups drawn from its companion associations. engaged on severe matters in sustainability throughout a number of ?elds encompassing power and weather, mobility, city structures, water and agriculture, cleanser applied sciences, public coverage, and communications, those groups have constructed a signi?cant physique of latest wisdom. moreover, A- backed teamshave labored withengaged,farsighted leaders of world companies and industries, governments, and non-governmental corporations (NGOs) to supply leading edge yet sensible ideas to pressing environmental difficulties worldwide.

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Natural assets cannot be easily recreated or replenished. Manmade capital, by contrast, can be increased and decreased easily, and even knowledge itself is rarely lost forever. As with uncertainty of substitutability, we should avoid the catastrophe of the loss of a vital asset. Once natural assets are depleted to the point of potentially irreversible loss, conservation of remaining assets must begin. • Equity. The poor are often affected more by the degradation of the natural environment. In developing countries the maintenance of livelihoods is often linked directly to the availability of natural resources.

When growth is fueled by technological innovation and not merely by increased natural resource consumption, efficient growth can be complemented simultaneously by improved environmental quality. Technology can save energy and resources while reducing pollution at the same time, as illustrated by the examples of “clean coal” technologies, more efficient energy-using appliances, and renewable resources such as solar power or wind power. Technology can also reduce pollution while saving energy by providing substitutes for energy-intensive, polluting activities.

Externalities One of the challenges in addressing the environmental aspects of sustainability is the failure to internalize external costs, or externalities. , medical expenses for the health problems of city dwellers that are caused by air pollution, and the costs of environmental clean-up that are borne by those other than the polluters. Accounting for externalities as part of the full social cost of degrading the environment is critical when formulating sustainable transportation policies. External costs are difficult to estimate and do not appear in a government budget (because they are not internalized); thus, at times they are neglected.

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