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Policy Instruments and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transport in the UK
Author(s) -
ACUTT MELINDA,
DODGSON JOHN
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
fiscal studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1475-5890
pISSN - 0143-5671
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5890.1996.tb00243.x
Subject(s) - greenhouse gas , commission , road transport , natural resource economics , sustainable transport , european commission , environmental policy , passenger transport , economics , road traffic , sustainable development , pollution , business , environmental planning , environmental science , political science , economic policy , transport engineering , sustainability , engineering , finance , european union , law , ecology , biology
‘There is now general recognition that a continuing upward trend in road traffic would not be environmentally or socially acceptable. The need is to find transport policies for the UK and Europe which will be sustainable in the long term.’ Transport and the Environment (Eighteenth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1994), para. 14.1.