Le siècle prochain verra-t-il s'accroître la part de l'initiative privée dans les décisions concernant la construction d'infrastructures de transport et leur financement ? Quelles seront les technologies qui s'imposeront sur le marché des transports ...

Réunis à Budapest, plus de 300 experts ont dressé un panorama des recherches en économie des transports depuis la création de la CEMT en 1953 et posé les jalons de travaux futurs.

With over half the world's population now deemed to be urbanised, cities are assuming a larger role in political debates about the security and sustainability of the global food system. Hence, planning for sustainable food production and consumption is becoming an increasingly important issue for planners, policymakers, designers, farmers, suppliers, activists, business and scientists alike. The rapid growth of the food planning movement owes much to the fact that food, because of its unique, multi-functional character, helps to bring people together from all walks of life. In the wider contexts of global climate change, resource depletion, a burgeoning world population, competing food production systems and diet-related public health concerns, new paradigms for urban and regional planning capable of supporting sustainable and equitable food systems are urgently needed. This book addresses this urgent need. By working at a range of scales and with a variety of practical and theoretical models, this book reviews and elaborates definitions of sustainable food systems, and begins to define ways of achieving them. To this end 4 different themes have been defined as entry-points into the discussion of 'sustainable food planning'. These are (1) urban agriculture, (2) integrating health, environment and society, (3) food in urban design and planning and (4) urban food governance.

This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and producers, and examines early indications of the economic and health impacts of local food systems. Defining ¿local¿ based on marketing arrangements, such as farmers selling directly to consumers at regional farmers¿ markets or to schools, is well recognized. Statistics suggest that local food markets account for a small, but growing, share of U.S. agricultural production. For smaller farms, direct marketing to consumers accounts for a higher percentage of their sales than for larger farms. Charts and tables.

Réunis à Budapest, plus de 300 experts ont dressé un panorama des recherches en économie des transports depuis la création de la CEMT en 1953 et posé les jalons de travaux futurs. Les investissements en infrastructures contribuent-ils à la ...

Ce livre comprend les rapports introductifs et une synthèse du Onzième symposium international sur la théorie et la pratique dans l'économie des transports, Bruxelles, 12-13 septembre 1988. Cette conférence était consacrée aux ressources pour les transports de demain.