Auto Motives: Understanding Car Use Behaviours (0) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857242334 ISBN 13: 9780857242334

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Our global reliance on private automobiles as the primary means for transporting individuals is likely to become of increasing political importance over the next ten to twenty years. While the individual benefits of car-based travel continues to be recognized, the wider environmental and social cost of automobiles is also significant and the need for political intervention to control some of their worst effects is increasingly accepted within policy circles internationally. It is within this wider context that "Auto Motives" is set. It critically evaluates the evidence for better understanding 'what drives us to drive'. Uniquely, it draws together and explains the diverse theoretical literatures that pertain to people's auto motives and considers these theories in light of empirical research of what actually informs our automobile decisions and behaviours. With contributions from leading academic experts from around the world, its core arguments and narratives are presented in such a way as to offer widespread appeal to a wide ranging audience.

About this title

About the Author

Karen Lucas--Oxford University, UK
Evelyn Blumenberg--University of California, USA
Rachel Weinberger--University of Pennsylvania, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857242334
• ISBN 13: 9780857242334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Lucas Karen, Blumenberg Evelyn, Weinberger Rachel