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Motor vehicles, the environment, and the human condition : driving to extinction / Hans A. Baer.
By: Baer, Hans A [author.]
.Series: Environment and society (Lanham, Md.): Publisher: Lanham ; London : Lexington Books, 2019Description: 251 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781793604903; 9781793604880; 9781793604897.Subject(s): Automobiles -- Social aspects | Human ecology -- Political aspects | Automobiles -- Environmental aspects | Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects | Capitalism -- Social aspects | Sustainability | Automobiles -- Social aspects -- Developing countriesDDC classification: 303.4832
Contents:
The political economy of motor vehicles -- Cultural tropes associated with motor vehicles -- The political ecological impact of motor vehicles on settlement patterns -- The impact of motor vehicles on the natural environment -- The political ecological impact of motor vehicles on health -- Case studies of motor vehicles in various places -- Beyond the automobile -- Creating a sustainable transportation system within the context of an alternative world system.
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| 303.48301 ZIZ Like a thief in broad daylight : | 303.4830112 REE On the future : | 303.4830973 FER Bored, lonely, angry, stupid : | 303.4832 BAE Motor vehicles, the environment, and the human condition : driving to extinction / | 303.4833 BUC If... then : | 303.4833 COH The know-it-alls : | 303.4833 COU The costs of connection : |
The political economy of motor vehicles -- Cultural tropes associated with motor vehicles -- The political ecological impact of motor vehicles on settlement patterns -- The impact of motor vehicles on the natural environment -- The political ecological impact of motor vehicles on health -- Case studies of motor vehicles in various places -- Beyond the automobile -- Creating a sustainable transportation system within the context of an alternative world system.