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The Business of Sustainable Mobility - From Vision to Reality

  • 1.  The Business of Sustainable Mobility - From Vision to Reality

    Posted 06-27-2006 05:40
    Dear Colleagues,

    We are pleased to announce the publication on June 27th, 2006 of:

    THE BUSINESS OF SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
    FROM VISION TO REALITY

    Edited by Paul Nieuwenhuis, Cardiff University , Philip Vergragt,
    Tellus Institute and Peter Wells, Cardiff University

    In co-operation with The Greening of Industry (GIN) Network

    June 2006 | 256pp | 234 x 156 mm
    Hardback: ISBN 1 874719 80 2 | GBP40.00 USD75.00
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    To place an order for this title at a discount of 10%, or to
    view/download the ‘Foreword‘ by Theo de Bruijn, Somporn
    Kamolsiripichaiporn and Kurt Fischer, Greening of Industry Network and
    Chapter 1 ‘The Business of Sustainable Mobility‘ by Paul Nieuwenhuis
    and Peter Wells, ESRC Centre for Business Relationships,
    Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Cardiff University, UK and
    Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA

    please visit the Greenleaf website at:
    http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/catalogue/mobility.htm

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    You can also buy the other books In Greenleaf’s ‘The Business of…’
    series at a discount of 50%:
    * The Business of Climate Change
    * The Business of Water and Sustainable Development
    Go to
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    scroll down and click on ‘’.Special Online Offers’
    alternatively, go directly to the discount order page at:
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    You can also request a review copy or inspection copy from this site -
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    ABOUT THE BOOK

    In many parts off the world, there is a crisis of mobility. The choices
    we have made over the past 200 years on modes and technologies of
    transport have brought us unprecedented global interaction and in many
    respects increased personal freedom. However, all this mobility has
    come at a cost to society, to the economy and to the environment.
    Mobility is in crisis, but few seem aware of the full extent of it.
    Though most people will be aware of congestion, accidents (although
    this aspect is often overlooked), parking restrictions or fuel prices,
    few will have considered the effects of the dramatic increase in
    mobility expected in China, India and elsewhere. Nor do many people in
    their daily lives consider the impact of climate change on our
    environment and the contribution our cars make to it. It is often
    thought that technology alone can solve this problem. For some
    observers, salvation could be achieved by means of hydrogen fuel cells,
    by hybrid cars, or by increased fuel efficiency, or even by telematics
    to reduce congestion. This book shows that ‘technology’ may well not be
    enough in itself and that for a genuinely sustainable transport future
    far more radical change — affecting many aspects of society — is
    needed. It is likely, for example, that new business models are needed,
    as well as users and consumers adopting new forms of behaviour.
    Disruptive technological innovation may well contribute, but needs to
    be induced by a combination of market forces and government regulation.

    Many studies touch on transport and mobility issues and more mainstream
    books aimed at challenging the dominance of automobility are common,
    yet works dealing with the longer-term strategic, theoretical and
    broader conceptual issues needed to inform the move towards more
    sustainable transport are rare. Yet policy-makers, practitioners, as
    well as many sections of academia, acknowledge a need for guidance on
    new thinking on sustainable mobility. This book brings together a range
    of views representing both leading-edge thinking and best practice in
    the mobility sector. The individual expert contributions form the basis
    for framing a broader vision of future mobility and proposed transition
    trajectories towards that future.

    Much of the effort reflected in the chapters in this book is concerned
    with going beyond the ‘technofix’ of new cars, to confront the more
    difficult challenges of institutional, cultural and social change
    within and beyond the industry that have to be resolved in the
    transition towards sustainability. It therefore seeks to break through
    the conventional boundary between engineering and the social sciences,
    and the contributors come from both sides of this traditional but
    unnecessary divide, combining economists, engineers, geographers,
    designers and others.

    The work is based on the sustainable mobility stream in the 2003
    International Greening of Industry Network conference in San Francisco.
    This event brought together experts from industry and government, and
    the book combines some of the papers presented there, developed and
    updated into full chapters, with a number of additional chapters to
    capture some of the themes that emerged from the conference.

    The central problem addressed in this book is the private car: how to
    power it, how to build it and how to deliver it to customers in a more
    sustainable future. It starts with ideas of radical innovation in the
    propulsion system of the car, notably the hydrogen fuel cell. In one
    section, the book examines business models that could be used to
    deliver automobility in a more sustainable manner. This section looks
    at how the car is made and used, and looks beyond it by examining how
    we could change those aspects in our quest for sustainable mobility.
    The book then considers a number of recently introduced vehicles and
    alternative vehicle concepts within the context of a dominant existing
    paradigm. These vary from a minimalist single-seat commuter to a
    powertrain exchange concept that could breathe new life into the
    electric vehicle. A number of chapters then report on current practice
    and experience in the initial moves toward more sustainable
    automobility. Finally, more visionary views are presented to look at
    what conclusions we can draw from the strands discussed and suggest
    possible future scenarios: where do we go from here?

    When thinking about the car, it is often not appreciated to what extent
    our modern culture is integrated with the car and its systems: we have
    literally built our world around the car in its current form, and this
    inevitably shapes the scope for constructing sustainable mobility. We
    therefore need to tackle any change to the current automobility
    paradigm on a very broad front and we need to be prepared for the
    possibly dramatic social and economic changes we may bring about by
    changing just some elements.

    ‘The Business of Sustainable Mobility‘ will be essential reading for
    academics, practitioners, policy-makers and others interested in the
    latest thinking on sustainable mobility.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Foreword
    Theo de Bruijn, Somporn Kamolsiripichaiporn and Kurt Fischer, Greening
    of Industry Network

    1. The business of sustainable mobility
    Paul Nieuwenhuis and Peter Wells, ESRC Centre for Business
    Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Cardiff
    University, UK
    Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA

    2. Transition management for sustainable personal mobility: the case of
    hydrogen fuel cells
    Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, USA

    3. Future imperfect: the enduring struggle for electric vehicles
    Renato Orsato, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France

    4. Competing technologies and the struggle towards a new dominant
    design: the emergence of the hybrid vehicle at the expense of the
    fuel-cell vehicle?
    Marko Hekkert, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
    Robert van den Hoed, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    5. Institutional change in the automotive industry: or how fuel-cell
    technology is being institutionalised
    Robert van den Hoed, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
    Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA

    6. System innovation in the automotive industry: achieving
    sustainability through micro-factory retailing
    Andrew Williams, BRASS Centre, Cardiff University, UK

    7. Business models for relocalisation to deliver sustainability
    Peter Wells and Paul Nieuwenhuis, ESRC Centre for Business
    Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Cardiff
    University, UK

    8. Modularity for greening the automobile
    Gordon Dower, The Ridek Corporation, Washington, DC, USA

    9. Social learning through technological inventions in low-impact
    individual mobility: the cases of Sparrow and Gizmo
    Halina Szejnwald Brown and Catherine Carbone, Clark University, USA

    10. The seven characteristics of successful sustainable system
    innovations
    Tom van der Horst, Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO),
    The Netherlands
    Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA

    11. Government behind the wheel and backseat driving: co-ordination and
    informational challenges of voluntary partnerships as programmes for
    stimulating sustainable technology
    Charles David White, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    12. Process- and product-oriented environmental policy within the car
    chain: examples from BMW and General Motors
    Carla K. Smink, Eskild Holm Nielsen and Tine Herreborg Jørgensen,
    Aalborg University, Denmark

    13. The switch to CNG in two urban areas in India: how was this
    achieved?
    Mahesh Patankar and Anand Patwardhan, SJM School of Management, Mumbai,
    India

    14. Local needs in urban transport
    Merih Kunur, Royal College of Art, London

    15. Web-based environmental management systems for SMEs: enhancing the
    diffusion of environmental management in the transportation sector
    Adeline Maijala, Lassi Linnanen and Tuula Pohjola, Proventia Solutions,
    Lappeenranta University of Technology, and Helsinki University of
    Technology, Finland

    16. The reinvention of the automobile
    Chris Borroni-Bird, General Motors Corporation, USA

    17. Conclusions: where next and when can we buy one?
    Paul Nieuwenhuis and Peter Wells, ESRC Centre for Business
    Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Cardiff
    University, UK
    Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA

    18. Epilogue: a day in a life in 2049
    Boelie Elzen, Centre for Science, Technology and Society, University of
    Twente, The Netherlands
    Wim Hafkamp, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    *********************************
    To place an order for this title at a discount of 10%, or to
    view/download the ‘Foreword‘ by Theo de Bruijn, Somporn
    Kamolsiripichaiporn and Kurt Fischer, Greening of Industry Network and
    Chapter 1 ‘The Business of Sustainable Mobility‘ by Paul Nieuwenhuis
    and Peter Wells, ESRC Centre for Business Relationships,
    Accountability, Sustainability and Society, Cardiff University, UK and
    Philip J. Vergragt, Tellus Institute, Boston, USA
    please visit the Greenleaf website at:
    http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/catalogue/mobility.htm

    *********************************
    You can also buy the other books In Greenleaf’s ‘The Business of…’
    series at a discount of 50%:
    * The Business of Climate Change
    * The Business of Water and Sustainable Development
    Go to
    www.greenleaf-publishing.com
    scroll down and click on ‘’.Special Online Offers’
    alternatively, go directly to the discount order page at:
    www.greenleaf-publishing.com/dscorder.htm
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