Traffic - Environment - Politics

, by Schopman, Joop

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ISBN: 9780820443423 | 0820443425
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/2000

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Introduction

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Politics - Environment - Car emission standards

The road from pollution to protection

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Introduction

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Origins

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Phases

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What action can be taken?

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What causes the environmental damage by car emissions?

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Study needed; example: lead

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Toxic effects identified, but who is to blame?

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Nothing is for free

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Politics reduced to numbers

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What will the number be?

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A job half done, or even less

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Any legal number is a technological construct

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And all over again

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P.S.: A wrong-headed approach?

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Notes

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Cars - environment - politics

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Introduction

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The analogy with smoking

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Hydrocarbons (HC)

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Carbon monoxide (CO)

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Nitrogen oxides (NOx)

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Ozone (O3)

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Sulphur dioxide (SO2)

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Suspended particulate matter (PM)

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Health conclusions

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Impact on mortality

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Effect on morbidity

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Part of the picture?

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Notes

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Traffic, noise, and nerves

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Introduction

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Most irritating

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Sources of noise by land transportation

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Health and welfare impact

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Suffering justifies measures?

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Technological measures

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Political technological measures

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Political social measures

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Notes

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Regulation there shall be, with more to come

Decades of tension between government, car industry and society in the U.S.A. (1950-1980)

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Building up of legal pressure

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From L.A. to D.C.

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Study alone will not do the job

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Industry follows politics

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Congressional anger

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The Clean Air Act Amendment of 1970

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Reactions by the industry

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From easy going to an: ``With their back against the wall''

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On the counterattack

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Technological answers

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First postponement

103

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