Motor Vehicles In The Environment

Author : Paul Nieuwenhuis,Peter Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032203161

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Motor Vehicles in the Environment by Paul Nieuwenhuis,Peter Wells Pdf

The motor industry is the largest manufacturing industry in the European Community, US and Japan, yet its products are among the most environmentally damaging. Although public opinion in much of the industrialised world has turned 'green', confusion still remains as to the implications for the motor industry. Will the car survive, and if so in what form? Can we afford to do without the motor industry, and can we distribute our goods without tracks? Motor Vehicles in the Environment highlights a number of issues which form the basis of future legislation affecting the motor industry. It offers a series of perspectives ranging from 'green', governmental, economic and marketing issues, to the impact on a specific sector of the industry. Prominent international experts analyse the implications of the green revolution for their specialist fields and areas of interest.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781793604897

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Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition by Hans A. Baer Pdf

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.

Author : R M Harrison,R E Hester
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781782628927

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Environmental Impacts of Road Vehicles by R M Harrison,R E Hester Pdf

The first concerns that come to mind in relation to pollution from road vehicles are direct emissions of carbon dioxide and toxic air pollutants. These are, of course, important but the impacts of road traffic are altogether more substantial. This volume of the Issues in Environmental Science and Technology Series takes a broader view of the effects on the environment and human health, excluding only injury due to road traffic accidents. By looking across the environmental media, air, water and soil, and taking account also of noise pollution, the volume addresses far more than the conventional atmospheric issues. More importantly, however, it examines present and future vehicle technologies, the implications of more extensive use of batteries in electric vehicles and the consequences of recycling vehicles at the end of use. Finally, examples of life-cycle analysis as applied to road vehicles are reviewed. This book is a comprehensive source of authoritative information for students studying pollution, and for policy-makers concerned with vehicle emissions and road traffic impacts more generally.

Author : Mike Mason
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002178

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Carbon Blues by Mike Mason Pdf

Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time. As history is being written in fire in California and Greece, in the warming waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and in the melting ice of the Arctic and Antarctica, Carbon Blues demystifies current debates on climate change, discussing everything from carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere caused by cars, coal, and oil to global warming and worsening natural disasters. A detailed examination of the history of climate change and its present and future consequences, Carbon Blues traces the essential economic importance of coal in the nineteenth century and oil in the twentieth, emphasizing the role of the automobile and the internal combustion engine in the dereliction of our planet. Exposing campaigns to mislead the public, Mike Mason reveals that the fatal consequences of CO2 and NO2 have been widely known for decades but successfully discounted and manipulated by the carbon lobby led by Exxon, BP, figures such as the Koch brothers, and democratically elected governments. The book underlines the disturbing truth: that despite current attempts to remediate climate change, the harm already done - melting polar ice and the warming and rising of the seas - will be virtually irreversible. As the fight against climate change comes to a head, Carbon Blues searches for fruitful ways forward.

Author : Asif Faiz,Christopher S. Weaver,Michael P. Walsh
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821334441

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Air Pollution from Motor Vehicles by Asif Faiz,Christopher S. Weaver,Michael P. Walsh Pdf

Contributions by Surhid Gautam and Lit-Mian Chan. This book presents a state-of-the art review of vehicle emission standards and regulations and provides a synthesis of worldwide experience with vehicle emission control technologies and their applications in both industrial and developing countries. Topics covered include: * The two principal international systems of vehicle emission standards: those of North America and Europe * Test procedures used to verify compliance with emissions standards and to estimate actual emissions * Engine and aftertreatment technologies that have been developed to enable new vehicles to comply with emission standards, as well as the cost and other impacts of these technologies * An evaluation of measures for controlling emissions from in-use vehicles * The role of fuels in reducing vehicle emissions, the benefits that could be gained by reformulating conventional gasoline and diesel fuels, the potential benefits of alternative cleaner fuels, and the prospects for using hydrogen and electric power to run motor vehicles with ultra-low or zero emissions. This book is the first in a series of publications on vehicle-related pollution and control measures prepared by the World Bank in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme to underpin the Bank's overall objective of promoting transport that is environmentally sustainable and least damaging to human health and welfare.

Author : John DeCicco,John M DeCicco, Ph.D.,James Kliesch,James Kliesch, B.S., M.S.
Publisher : American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0918249481

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ACEEE's Green Book by John DeCicco,John M DeCicco, Ph.D.,James Kliesch,James Kliesch, B.S., M.S. Pdf

Author : J. Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000698114

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Wheels of Progress? by J. Rose Pdf

Originally published in 1973 and based on papers published in The International Journal of Environmental Studies, this book discusses the impact of road vehicles on the environment. Particular stress is laid on the design of towns and vehicles, economic problems associated with these, the responsibility of planners and the integration of transport planning and environmental planning at local, regional and national levels. Subsequent sections cover the science of accident research and legislation, particularly dealing with global pollution control. Many of the problems discussed remain as pressing today as when this book was first published.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme. Industry Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Automobiles
ISBN : PSU:000021879814

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Environmental Aspects of the Motor Vehicle and Its Use by United Nations Environment Programme. Industry Programme Pdf

Author : L. H. Watkins
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000303177

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Air Pollution from Road Vehicles by L. H. Watkins Pdf

By the year 2000 the world vehicle population is predicted to be about 686 million, and in the United Kingdom transport consumes over 30 million tonnes of fuel a year.

Author : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Environment Committee. Ad Hoc Group on Motor Vehicles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Air
ISBN : LCCN:79302476

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Inquiry Into the Impact of the Motor Vehicle on the Environment by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Environment Committee. Ad Hoc Group on Motor Vehicles Pdf

Author : Sponsored by The Health Effects Institute
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309037266

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Air Pollution, the Automobile, and Public Health by Sponsored by The Health Effects Institute Pdf

"The combination of scientific and institutional integrity represented by this book is unusual. It should be a model for future endeavors to help quantify environmental risk as a basis for good decisionmaking." â€"William D. Ruckelshaus, from the foreword. This volume, prepared under the auspices of the Health Effects Institute, an independent research organization created and funded jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the automobile industry, brings together experts on atmospheric exposure and on the biological effects of toxic substances to examine what is knownâ€"and not knownâ€"about the human health risks of automotive emissions.

Author : Christopher W. Wells
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780295804477

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Car Country by Christopher W. Wells Pdf

For most people in the United States, going almost anywhere begins with reaching for the car keys. This is true, Christopher Wells argues, because the United States is Car Country—a nation dominated by landscapes that are difficult, inconvenient, and often unsafe to navigate by those who are not sitting behind the wheel of a car. The prevalence of car-dependent landscapes seems perfectly natural to us today, but it is, in fact, a relatively new historical development. In Car Country, Wells rejects the idea that the nation's automotive status quo can be explained as a simple byproduct of an ardent love affair with the automobile. Instead, he takes readers on a tour of the evolving American landscape, charting the ways that transportation policies and land-use practices have combined to reshape nearly every element of the built environment around the easy movement of automobiles. Wells untangles the complicated relationships between automobiles and the environment, allowing readers to see the everyday world in a completely new way. The result is a history that is essential for understanding American transportation and land-use issues today. Watch the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48LTKOxxrXQ

Author : W. Berg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 354000050X

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Traffic and Environment by W. Berg Pdf

The automobile is one of the inventions that has made a decisive contribution to human mobility, and consequently it has become an inseparable part of modern human society. However, it is through this widespread use that its negative impacts on the environment have become so highly visible. Achievements in improving the ecological characteristics of the automobile are highly impressive: a modern car emits only a fraction of the amounts of noise and exhaust pollutants produced by its predecessors 30 years ago. The contributions to this book were written by experts, most of whom have been actively involved in the development of modern automobiles and their combustion engines for more than 30 years. They have participated in all phases of the ecological development of the automobile and summarize their experience and know-how in this book .

Author : Patricia Egede
Publisher : Springer
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319402772

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Environmental Assessment of Lightweight Electric Vehicles by Patricia Egede Pdf

This monograph adresses the challenge of the environmental assessment of leightweight electric vehicles. It poses the question whether the use of lightweight materials in electric vehicles can reduce the vehicles’ environmental impact and compares the environmental performance of a lightweight electric vehicle (LEV) to other types of vehicles. The topical approach focuses on methods from life cycle assessment (LCA), and the book concludes with a comprehensive concept on the environmental assessment of LEVs. The target audience primarily comprises LCA practitioners from research institutes and industry, but it may also be beneficial for graduate students specializing in the field of environmental assessment.

Author : Paulina Golinska
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642238376

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Environmental Issues in Automotive Industry by Paulina Golinska Pdf

The automotive industry is one of the most environmental aware manufacturing sectors. Product take-back regulations influence design of the vehicles, production technologies but also the configuration of automotive reverse supply chains. The business practice comes every year closer to the closed loop supply chain concept which completely reuses, remanufactures and recycles all materials. The book covers the emerging environmental issues in automotive industry through the whole product life cycle. Its focus is placed on a multidisciplinary approach. It presents viewpoints of academic and industry personnel on the challenges for implementation of sustainable police in the automotive sector