Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

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Daniel Sperling Deborah Gordon (Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy, Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis)

Two Billion Cars

Driving Toward Sustainability

Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon (Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy, Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis), Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Oxford University Press Inc
03 October 2010

Environmental economics; Road transport industries; Pollution & threats to the environment; Automotive technology & trades

Today there are over a billion vehicles in the world, and within twenty years, the number will double, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth. Given that greenhouse gases are already creating havoc with our climate and that violent conflict in unstable oil-rich nations is on the rise, will matters only get worse? Or are there hopeful signs that effective, realistic solutions can be found?

Blending a concise history of cars and their impact on the world, leading transportation experts Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon explain how we arrived at this state, and what we can do about it. Sperling and Gordon assign blame squarely where it belongs-on the auto-industry, short-sighted government policies, and consumers. They explore such solutions as getting beyond the gas-guzzler monoculture, re-inventing cars, searching for low-carbon fuels, and more. Promising advances in both transportation technology and fuel efficiency together with shifts in traveler behavior, they suggest, offer us a way out of our predicament.

The authors conclude that the two places that have the most troublesome emissions problems--California and China--are the most likely to become world leaders on these issues. Arnold Schwarzenegger's enlightened embrace of eco-friendly fuel policies, which he discusses in the foreword, and China's forthright recognition that it needs far-reaching environmental and energy policies, suggest that if they can tackle the issue effectively and honestly, then there really is reason for hope.

Updated with a new afterword that sheds light on the profound changes in the global economy in the last year, Two Billion Cars makes the case for why and how we need to transform transportation now more than ever.

By: Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon (Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy, Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis)
Foreword by: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780199737239
ISBN 10: 0199737231
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 03 October 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Sperling is Professor of Engineering and Environmental Science & Policy at the University of California, Davis, and Founding Director of UC-Davis's Institute of Transportation Studies. He also serves on the California Air Resources Board. Deborah Gordon is a senior transportation policy consultant who has worked with the National Commission on Energy Policy, the California Energy Commission, International Council for Clean Transportation, and the Chinese government to develop fiscal policies for their burgeoning auto fleet. She earlier developed and directed transportation policy programs for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Reviews for Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

Authoritatively prescriptive. --Tom Vanderbilt, Wilson Quarterly An urgent wake-up call ...The authors have laid out a blueprint the entire world can use. --Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (from the Foreword) In this insightful and persuasive book, Sperling and Gordon highlight one of the biggest environmental challenges of this century: two billion cars. They rightly contend that we cannot avert the worst of global warming without making our cars cleaner and petroleum-free. Luckily the authors also offer a roadmap for navigating this problem that is both visionary and achievable. --Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council The future of mobility should concern every citizen and government official. We have to tackle this together, but weve not been good at it, except in crisis. Now is the time to move forward. Two Billion Cars provides inspiration and a compelling pathway. --John D. Hofmeister, Former President, Shell Oil company, and Founder and CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy The authors make a compelling and urgent fact-based case that we must quickly expand the universe of affordable, low-impact transportation options if we are to survive the doubling of the worlds cars. They show how a combination of leadership, smart policy, the unleashing of a can-do technological revolution, and carefully understanding consumer motivations will save the day. It's a must-read for anyone eager to be part of the solution. --Kevin Knobloch, President, Union of Concerned Scientists Provocative and pleasurable, far-seeing and refreshing, fact-based and yet a page-turner, global in scope but rooted in real places. The authors make a convincing case that smart consumers driving smart electric-drive cars can find the critical path to a safer planet. --Robert Socolow, Princeton University This book provides with considerable objectivity and foresight an analysis of the unsustainable pattern of transportation that human society has become accustomedindeed addictedto. In very simple terms the authors deal with the profound issues arising from the growing human desire for locomotion and mobility. --R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change This is a very important, realistic and highly readable book on the currently unsustainable world auto monoculture and its needed changes by two leading transportation researchers. --CHOICE