Full Description
This topical book examines the issues surrounding climate change and sustainability in relation to the freight transport sector. Written by an interdisciplinary team of contributors, the book approaches the topic from a multitude of perspectives, demonstrating that the sector will need to undergo significant changes in order to meet climate change targets.
In addition to examining the challenges facing the transport sector, chapters also offer practical suggestions as to how the sector can achieve the required transformation. Legal methods are considered along with the application of new technologies and the implementation of alternative incentive structures as ways to promote sustainability and reduce emissions. Featuring contributions from leading authors from logistics, business, law and sustainability backgrounds, Sustainable and Efficient Transport demonstrates that a more integrated approach is needed at an EU level, to bring about the paradigm shift required for reducing transport emissions and making the sector more sustainable.
This book will be a valuable resource for researchers working in both sustainability and transport. Lawyers, industry professionals and policy-makers will also benefit from insights in to the effectiveness of current policies and alternative solutions to contemporary challenges.
Contents
Contents:
Foreword
Sirpa Pietikäinen
Preface
PART I THE TARGET OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT AND THE NEED FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERING
1. Responding to the grand challenge of our time
Beate Sjåfjell
2. Measures for the sustainable shipping of goods
Erik Røsæg
3. The Single European Transport Area and sustainability of the transport industry
Rosa Greaves
PART II THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND DIGITALIZATION - TRANSPORT IN A GREEN MARKET
4. Organization boundaries. How to integrate transport operations in circular economy thinking. The timber casestudy
María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo, Juana María Rivera-Lirio, Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero, Elena Escrig-Olmedo and José Vicente Gisbert-Navarro
5. The physical internet as enabler of new business models enhancing greener transports and the circular economy
Mervi Rajahonka, Anu Bask, Sadaat Ali Yawar and Markku Tinnilä
6. Financing sustainable market actors in the circular economy
Jukka Mähönen
7. Suitability of and regulatory barriers to the European emissions trading scheme regulating GHG emissionsfrom transport 117
Emilie Yliheljo
PART III INFORMATION AS A DRIVER FOR GREEN BEHAVIOUR
8. A sustainable behavioural change in the transport industry - the role of emission information
Ellen Eftestøl-Wilhelmsson
9. Sustainability in contractually organized supply chains: Coordinating transport
Jaakko Salminen
10. The way of business contracts: How to promote (transport) sustainability and incentivize the green economy via Contract Management
Suvi Hirvonen-Ere
11. Product information on freight emissions for consumers - changing the market towards sustainability
Suvi Sankari
PART IV GREEN FREIGHT - SOLUTIONS AND OBSTACLES
12. Towards a model for sustainable platooning cooperation in road transport
Wouter Verheyen
13. Who pays for oil pollution at sea? Some remarks on the interplay between certainty of the law and unpredictability
Andrea La Mattina
Index
