Are transportation solutions doomed to fail climate-change actions? A book review

Rouhani, Omid (2022): Are transportation solutions doomed to fail climate-change actions? A book review.

Abstract

I review a New York Times best-seller book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, edited by Paul Hawken. Drawdown provides many interesting solutions, descriptions, and arguments regarding the global impacts of climate change. Indeed, the book sets forth around 80 solutions and 20 coming to attractions (future options for combating climate change). In this review, however, I focus primarily on the book’s transport solutions. Overall, the book comes short of offering innovative and cost-effective solutions, in contrast to other sectors’ solutions. I believe the reason is the book’s narrow view regarding the overall impacts of transportation and latent opportunities in the sector.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: transportation; climate change; policies; GHG emissions
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General > Q01 - Sustainable Development; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation > Q20 - General; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R4 - Transportation Economics > R42 - Government and Private Investment Analysis ; Road Maintenance ; Transportation Planning; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R4 - Transportation Economics > R48 - Government Pricing and Policy

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