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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review'Transport and the law on transportation belongs to the core of international commercial law. Litigation is either subject to arbitration or to the few national courts that enjoy the reputation of being impartial. The field is built on old conventions and the rationality of bilateral contractual relations. This book shifts the perspective from international commercial law - the law of contracts - to sustainability and to the SDG - the Sustainable Development Goals. Everybody knows that it is time to act, but very little happens. This book shows the potential avenues that politics has to take. There is no alternative. The digital economy provides the potential to rethink the way in which transportation is organized and the law that needs to govern green transportation. There is more needed than a little bit of adjustment here and there. The traditional understanding of the law of transportation which sets aside the externalities of transportation has to be thoroughly overhauled.' --Hans-W Micklitz, European University Institute, Italy
Table of ContentsContents: 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
