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Running On Empty: Transport, Social Exclusion and Environmental Justice
Karen Lucas, The Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, 306pp., ISBN 1 86134 569 0, £22.99
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This is a timely and well-conceived collection, published at a time when transport and its attendant constellation of concerns are a major preoccupation of governments and citizens across the world. We are living in a time when mobility, for some at least, has increased beyond what anyone could have imagined a generation or so ago. At the same time, we are facing potentially catastrophic and certainly very far-reaching consequences both at the micro level of local environmental damage and at the macro level of climate change. This book attempts to synthesize a wide range of issues into a coherent and productive argument, structured
Higher and Community Education, University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ, UK; email: ken.mcculloch@ed.ac.uk