Driving climate change : cutting carbon from transportation / edited by Daniel Sperling and James S. Cannon. - Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, c2007. - xi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview / Peaking of world oil production and its mitigation / Toward a policy agenda for climate change : changing technologies and fuels and the changing value of energy / Coordinated policy measures for reducing the fuel use of the U.S. light duty vehicle fleet / Carbon burdens from new car sales in the United States / Reducing vehicle emissions through cap-and-trade schemes / North American feebate analysis model / Reducing growth in vehicle miles traveled : can we really pull it off? / International comparison of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from passenger vehicles / Reducing transport-related greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries : the role of the global environmental facility / What multilateral banks (and other donors) can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : a case study of Latin America and the Caribbean / From public understanding to public policy : public views on energy, technology and climate science in the United States / Narrative self-identity and societal goals : automotive fuel economy and global warming policy / Lost in option space : risk partitioning to guide climate and energy policy / Toward a transportation policy agenda for climate change / Dan Sperling and James S. Cannon -- Robert L. Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling -- Duncan Eggar -- Anup P. Bandivadekar and John B. Heywood -- John DeCicco, Freda Fung and Feng An -- John German -- Alexandre Dumas, David L. Greene and André Bourbeau -- Gary Toth -- Feng An -- Walter Hook -- Deborah Bleviss -- David M. Reiner -- Kenneth S. Kurani, Thomas S. Turrentine and Reid R. Heffner -- David L. Bodde -- David Burwell and Daniel Sperling.

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Global warming--Prevention
Transportation--Environmental aspects
Motor vehicles--Fuel consumption
Climatic changes

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