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Eight Economic versus environmental sustainability for ports and shipping: charting a new course?
Abstract
This chapter examines the development in the policy for ports and shipping in Great Britain since 1998. It explains that the White Paper A New Deal for Transport focused only briefly on ports and shipping compared with other segments of the transport sector. The chapter provides an overview of the British port system’s scale, complexity, and momentum, and evaluates whether there is evidence that ports and their associated shipping have entered a new era in which economic growth has been maintained without a high environmental cost.
Abstract
This chapter examines the development in the policy for ports and shipping in Great Britain since 1998. It explains that the White Paper A New Deal for Transport focused only briefly on ports and shipping compared with other segments of the transport sector. The chapter provides an overview of the British port system’s scale, complexity, and momentum, and evaluates whether there is evidence that ports and their associated shipping have entered a new era in which economic growth has been maintained without a high environmental cost.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables, figures and boxes vi
- Foreword viii
- Preface and acknowledgements xi
- List of acronyms xvi
- Notes on contributors xix
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Policy and politics
- New deal or no new deal? A decade of ‘sustainable’ transport in the UK 3
- Devolution and the UK’s new transport policy landscape 29
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Progress in policy implementation
- Roads and traffic: from ‘predict and provide’ to ‘making best use’ 51
- Is Labour delivering a sustainable railway? 75
- Buses and light rail: stalled en route? 97
- Walking and cycling: easy wins for a sustainable transport policy? 117
- UK air travel: taking off for growth? 139
- Economic versus environmental sustainability for ports and shipping: charting a new course? 161
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Ten years since A new deal for transport – signposts to the UK’s transport future?
- Transport for London: success despite Westminster? 183
- Mind the gap! The UK’s record in European perspective 205
- Traffic jam? Policy debates after 10 years of ‘sustainable’ transport 231
- Index 241
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables, figures and boxes vi
- Foreword viii
- Preface and acknowledgements xi
- List of acronyms xvi
- Notes on contributors xix
-
Policy and politics
- New deal or no new deal? A decade of ‘sustainable’ transport in the UK 3
- Devolution and the UK’s new transport policy landscape 29
-
Progress in policy implementation
- Roads and traffic: from ‘predict and provide’ to ‘making best use’ 51
- Is Labour delivering a sustainable railway? 75
- Buses and light rail: stalled en route? 97
- Walking and cycling: easy wins for a sustainable transport policy? 117
- UK air travel: taking off for growth? 139
- Economic versus environmental sustainability for ports and shipping: charting a new course? 161
-
Ten years since A new deal for transport – signposts to the UK’s transport future?
- Transport for London: success despite Westminster? 183
- Mind the gap! The UK’s record in European perspective 205
- Traffic jam? Policy debates after 10 years of ‘sustainable’ transport 231
- Index 241
