Transport policy in Belgium : translating sustainability discourses into unsustainable outcomes
Abstract: In this paper, we challenge the so-called orthodox sustainable transport vision, by confronting it with two possibly troublesome issues; (1) the urge for growth, and (2) the question of social justice. On the basis of seven cases from Belgium, a country with a strong commuting culture and a traditional tendency towards multimodality, we show that the conversion of a sustainability discourse into policy actions often leads to realisations which are essentially to be labelled as non-sustainable. On the one hand we discuss a number of cases where additional travel is unintentionally sti... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | acceptedVersion |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Schlagwörter: | Economics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26599703 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/10067/1350920151162165141 |