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Author Glover, Leigh

Title Community-Owned Transport
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages)
Series Transport and Mobility
Transport and mobility series.
Contents Cover; Half Title ; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Moving to a New Transport Paradigm; Part I Modern Urban Transport andthe Challenge of Sustainable Transport; Chapter 1 A History of Modern UrbanTransport Systems; Overview; Coal and Chaff: Semi-Modern Mobility; Mechanised and Motorised Mass Mobility in the Second Industrial Revolution; Petroleum-Powered Automobility: A Story of the Rise of Private Transport and the Demise of Public Transport; Post-Automobile Automobility and the Post-Industrial City
Tracks and Roads to ModernityChapter 2 Transport Governance andInstitutions; Times of Change; Why Governments Intervene in Urban Transport; Governments' Role in Urban Transport; Transport Governance; Urban Transport Institutions; Public and Private Transport Systems; Informal Transport; Urban Transport as Infrastructure; Neoliberalism and Urban Transport; Barriers to Change: Institutional Path Dependencyin Urban Transport; Chapter 3 Sustainable Transport; Coming to Grips with Sustainable Transport; Policy Responses for Sustainable Transport; Towards Environmentally Sustainable Transport
Part II Foundations of Community-Owned TransportChapter 4 Collaborative Consumption; Sharing in Capitalist Economies; Environmental Implications; A Dark Side to Collaborative Consumption?; Transport as Collaborative Consumption; Idle Vehicle Capacity; Reactions against Carsharing; Chapter 5 Eco-Communalism; Ecological Communities; Eco-Communalism as an Environmental Discourse; Eco-Communalism as a Social Movement; Environmental Rationale for Strengthening Neighbourhoodsand Communities; Eco-Communalism as a Green Philosophy; Critiques and Limitations; Garden Cities, New Towns and Ecotowns
Ecovillages: Putting Eco-Communalism into PracticeEco-Communalism as a Solution to Urban Transport Problems; Chapter 6 Urban Transport as a Commons; Common Pool Resources and Common Pool Property; Infrastructure Commons; Urban Mobility Commons; Public Transport Commons; Urban Roads Commons; Part III Community-Owned Transport Practices; Chapter 7 Community-Owned Transport; Overall Concept; A Basic Case for Community-Owned Transport; Making a Case for Community Ownership; Insights from Rural Mobility in Developed Nations; Differentiating Welfare Transport from Community-OwnedTransport
Reconciling Public and Private Models of Transport OwnershipModels for Community-Owned Transport; How can there be Alternatives to Governments and Corporations in Transport Ownership?; Social Enterprises; Consumers in a Changing Economy; Invention and Innovation and Mobility Services; Not-for-Profit Carsharing; Community Ownership and the Neoliberal State; What Community-Ownership Transport Offers: A Summary; Chapter 8 How Community-Owned Transport Addresses Unsustainable Transport; A Unique Contribution; Reducing Mobility Disadvantage; Pollution Reduction; Community Engagement
Notes Economic Benefits
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Subject Urban transportation.
Local transit.
Cooperative societies.
Public-private sector cooperation.
Community development.
urban transportation.
local transit.
cooperative stores (built works)
cooperatives (business enterprises)
community development.
Community development
Cooperative societies
Local transit
Public-private sector cooperation
Urban transportation
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317163275
1317163273