Download or read book OECD Guidelines towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents and explains the OECD Guidelines towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport, which have been developed to help governments enable economic development and individual welfare without causing undue health and environmental impacts and depletion of finite resources.

Download or read book Environmental Impacts of International Shipping The Role of Ports written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the environmental impacts of international maritime transport, and looks more in detail at the impacts stemming from near-port shipping activities, the handling of the goods in the ports and from the distribution of the goods to the surrounding regions.

Download or read book Assessment and Decision Making for Sustainable Transport written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report makes recommendations for good practice bringing the results of economic appraisals and environmental assessments before decision makers in the transport sector on the basis of reviews of recent experience in infrastructure planning and policy development in seven countries.

Download or read book Environment and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises Corporate Tools and Approaches written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the main tools and approaches available to enterprises wishing to put the Environment chapter of the OECD Guidelines into practice.

Download or read book Social Change and Sustainable Transport written by William Richard Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation research has traditionally been dominated by engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic changes, which increasingly govern the development of the transportation sector. The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including geography and regional science, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries. Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo, the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls, potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric car.

Download or read book Decoupling the Environmental Impacts of Transport from Economic Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates that decoupling the environmental impacts of transport from economic growth is achievable, through the efficient use of charges, fees, taxes and other economic instruments.

Download or read book Sustainable Materials Management Making Better Use of Resources written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines a series of policy principles for SMM, examines how to set and use targets for SMM, and explores various policy instruments for SMM.

Download or read book Towards Sustainable Development Indicators to Measure Progress Proceedings of the Rome Conference written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains the proceedings of the OECD Conference that was held in Rome in December 1999. It presents the wide range of initiatives and indicators that are already in place, and outlines the challenges that remain in measuring progress towards sustainable development.

Download or read book Guidance on Sustainability Impact Assessment written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers a general introduction to sustainability impact assessment, which is an approach for exploring the combined economic, environmental and social impacts of a range of proposed policies, programmes, strategies and action plans.

Download or read book Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future written by Simon Elias Bibri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed, sustainable urban development is currently at the center of debate in light of several ICT visions becoming achievable and deployable computing paradigms, and shaping the way cities will evolve in the future and thus tackle complex challenges. This book integrates computer science, data science, complexity science, sustainability science, system thinking, and urban planning and design. As such, it contains innovative computer–based and data–analytic research on smart sustainable cities as complex and dynamic systems. It provides applied theoretical contributions fostering a better understanding of such systems and the synergistic relationships between the underlying physical and informational landscapes. It offers contributions pertaining to the ongoing development of computer–based and data science technologies for the processing, analysis, management, modeling, and simulation of big and context data and the associated applicability to urban systems that will advance different aspects of sustainability. This book seeks to explicitly bring together the smart city and sustainable city endeavors, and to focus on big data analytics and context-aware computing specifically. In doing so, it amalgamates the design concepts and planning principles of sustainable urban forms with the novel applications of ICT of ubiquitous computing to primarily advance sustainability. Its strength lies in combining big data and context–aware technologies and their novel applications for the sheer purpose of harnessing and leveraging the disruptive and synergetic effects of ICT on forms of city planning that are required for future forms of sustainable development. This is because the effects of such technologies reinforce one another as to their efforts for transforming urban life in a sustainable way by integrating data–centric and context–aware solutions for enhancing urban systems and facilitating coordination among urban domains. This timely and comprehensive book is aimed at a wide audience across science, academia industry, and policymaking. It provides the necessary material to inform relevant research communities of the state–of–the–art research and the latest development in the area of smart sustainable urban development, as well as a valuable reference for planners, designers, strategists, and ICT experts who are working towards the development and implementation of smart sustainable cities based on big data analytics and context–aware computing.

Download or read book Climate Change and Sustainable Transportation written by Anand S. Khati and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is no longer a subject of scientific and academic importance; the well-being of the earth and human race is deeply dependent on it. With rapid growth of population and accelerated urbanization, the limited resources of earth have come under great stress. Climate Change and Sustainable Transport provides a comprehensive knowledge about the different dimensions of climate system, climate change and role of transport in climate change, its genesis and different migration options. The book will help to develop an overview on the multifaceted, interdependent complexities involved between climate change and transportation. The chapters have been so-developed that they present a broad overview of the relevance of sustainable transport system in the context of environment and climate change which determines how sustainability needs to be an underlining part of the policy framework and infrastructural development. Inclusion of case studies based on the traffic scenarios of Delhi-NCR and transport scenario of India, as a whole, has imparted practicality to the text. The book will be relevant to the researchers, policymakers, administrators, policy planners, students, teachers, and general public at large and help them in discussing, disseminating, and propagating the work to inform political and societal decision-makers in identifying problems and offering solutions that can be widely implemented in the larger public interest. Climate Change and Sustainable Transportation will also help readers identify different facets of this complex subject and the responsible role it plays in the socio-economic development of a country. Table of Contents: Foreword Preface 1. Atmosphere and Climate Systems 2. Transport System 3. Transport Sector in India and Traffic Scenario in Delhi NCR 4. Transport and Climate Change 5. Sustainability of the Environment 6. Railways: the major and sustainable mode of transport in India Index About the Authors

Download or read book The Geography of Transport Systems written by Claude Comtois and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering methodologies linked with transport geography, and addressing networks, modes terminals, international and urban transportation, and environmental impacts, this key book provides a comprehensive introduction to this important field.

Download or read book A Territorial Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals written by OECD and published by Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of megatrends such as globalisation, climate and demographic change, digitalisation and urbanisation, many cities and regions are grappling with critical challenges to preserve social inclusion, foster economic growth and transition to the low carbon economy. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the global agenda for the coming decade to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. A Territorial Approach to the Sustainable Development Goals argues that cities and regions play a critical role in this paradigm shift and need to embrace the full potential of the SDGs as a policy tool to improve people's lives. The report estimates that at least 105 of the 169 SDG targets will not be reached without proper engagement of sub-national governments. It analyses how cities and regions are increasingly using the SDGs to design and implement their strategies, policies and plans; promote synergies across sectoral domains; and engage stakeholders in policy making. The report proposes an OECD localised indicator framework that measures the distance towards the SDGs for more than 600 regions and 600 cities in OECD and partner countries. The report concludes with a Checklist for Public Action to help policy makers implement a territorial approach to the SDGs.

Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews Toronto Canada 2009 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This OECD Territorial Review of Toronto proposes a new sustainable competitiveness agenda to enhance productivity, focusing on innovation, cultural diversity and infrastructure, as well as on green policies for this key economic region of Canada.

Download or read book OECD Environmental Strategy 2004 Review of Progress written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses the progress that OECD countries have made in implementing objectives set out in an Environmentl Strategy adopted in 2001, as well as in applying the 71 national actions they agreed as part of that Strategy.

Download or read book Big Data Science and Analytics for Smart Sustainable Urbanism written by Simon Elias Bibri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living at the dawn of what has been termed ‘the fourth paradigm of science,’ a scientific revolution that is marked by both the emergence of big data science and analytics, and by the increasing adoption of the underlying technologies in scientific and scholarly research practices. Everything about science development or knowledge production is fundamentally changing thanks to the ever-increasing deluge of data. This is the primary fuel of the new age, which powerful computational processes or analytics algorithms are using to generate valuable knowledge for enhanced decision-making, and deep insights pertaining to a wide variety of practical uses and applications. This book addresses the complex interplay of the scientific, technological, and social dimensions of the city, and what it entails in terms of the systemic implications for smart sustainable urbanism. In concrete terms, it explores the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of smart sustainable urbanism and the unprecedented paradigmatic shifts and practical advances it is undergoing in light of big data science and analytics. This new era of science and technology embodies an unprecedentedly transformative and constitutive power—manifested not only in the form of revolutionizing science and transforming knowledge, but also in advancing social practices, producing new discourses, catalyzing major shifts, and fostering societal transitions. Of particular relevance, it is instigating a massive change in the way both smart cities and sustainable cities are studied and understood, and in how they are planned, designed, operated, managed, and governed in the face of urbanization. This relates to what has been dubbed data-driven smart sustainable urbanism, an emerging approach based on a computational understanding of city systems and processes that reduces urban life to logical and algorithmic rules and procedures, while also harnessing urban big data to provide a more holistic and integrated view or synoptic intelligence of the city. This is increasingly being directed towards improving, advancing, and maintaining the contribution of both sustainable cities and smart cities to the goals of sustainable development. This timely and multifaceted book is aimed at a broad readership. As such, it will appeal to urban scientists, data scientists, urbanists, planners, engineers, designers, policymakers, philosophers of science, and futurists, as well as all readers interested in an overview of the pivotal role of big data science and analytics in advancing every academic discipline and social practice concerned with data–intensive science and its application, particularly in relation to sustainability.

Download or read book The Development Dimension Sustainable Ocean for All Harnessing the Benefits of Sustainable Ocean Economies for Developing Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting more sustainable ways of managing the ocean is a global priority: protecting its health will bring benefits to all. Developing countries face specific challenges, as many depend heavily on ocean-based industries and are overly exposed to the consequences of ocean degradation.