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Connecting Sustainable Transport with Health
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This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to synthesise walking and health in cities around the globe. Walking as a research area is multifaceted and this book presents chapters which synthesise the current state of research and practice, which will be of interest to readers, both academic and professional, and point to areas that will feature prominently in future research domains.
Although the links between transport and health have long been recognised in the transport and health disciplines separately, it is a fairly recent phenomenon that they have been seen as a legitimate inter- and multi-disciplinary area. The areas of intersection have become more obvious with better understanding between the different disciplines with mutual and explicit understanding that great benefits come from recognising synergies between disciplinary approaches to similar problems. The connections between walking and health have benefited from a better understanding of the contributions of different disciplines.
This book exploits this multidisciplinary approach.


Contents:

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; Corinne Mulley, Klaus Gebel and Ding Ding

SECTION 1: WALKING. ITS PREVALENCE, ITS BENEFITS AND ITS VARIETY

CHAPTER 2 - MEASUREMENT OF WALKING; Dafna Merom and Robert Korycinski

CHAPTER 3 - UNDERSTANDING THE DETERMINANTS OF WALKING AS THE BASIS FOR SOCIAL MARKETING PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING; Corinne Mulley and Chinh Ho

CHAPTER 4 - THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF WALKING; Paul Kelly, Marie Murphy and Nanette Mutrie

CHAPTER 5 - ECONOMIC VALUE OF WALKING; Todd Litman

CHAPTER 6 - WALKING TO AND FROM SCHOOL; Jacky Kennedy and George Mammen

CHAPTER 7 - DOG WALKING; Hayley E. Christian, Gavin R. McCormack, Kelly E. Evenson and Clover Maitland
SECTION 2: ENVIRONMENTS AND WALKING

CHAPTER 8 - THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND WALKING; William Riggs and Ruth L. Steiner
CHAPTER 9 - PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND WALKING: GEARING TOWARDS THE MULTIMODAL CITY; Sonia Lavadinho

CHAPTER 10 - PLANNING WALKING ENVIRONMENTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND OLDER ADULTS; Yochai Eisenberg, Erin D. Bouldin, Nancy Gell and Dori Rosenberg

CHAPTER 11 - PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH; Philip Stoker, Arlie Adkins and Reid Ewing
SECTION 3: PUBLIC POLICY FOR WALKING

CHAPTER 12 - WALKING POLICY STEPS - THE POLICY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR THE FIRST STATE WALKING TARGET IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA; Peter McCue

CHAPTER 13 - DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE WALKING INTERVENTIONS: INTEGRATING BEHAVIOURAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND SYSTEMS SCIENCE TO PROMOTE POPULATION HEALTH; Liza S. Rovniak and Abby C. King

CHAPTER 14 - PROMOTION OF RECREATIONAL WALKING: CASE STUDY OF THE CICLOVIA-RECREATIVA OF BOGOTA; Olga L. Sarmiento, Carlos Pedraza, Camilo A. Triana, Diana P. Diaz, Silvia Gonzalez and Sergio Montero
SECTION 4: CASE STUDIES

CHAPTER 15 - VANCOUVER AND THE WALKER: THE EVOLUTION OF THE WALKABLE CITY; Sandy James

CHAPTER 16 - WALKING IN VIENNA: SMOOTHING THE WAY FOR CREATING A NEW URBAN LIFESTYLE; Wiebke Unbehaun, Mailin Gaupp-Berghausen and Petra Jens

CHAPTER 17 - WALKING FOR TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSMILENIO IN BOGOTA: STRENGTHS AND SHORTCOMINGS; Diana C. Parra and Pablo D. Lemoine

CHAPTER 18 - RETROFITTING TRADITIONAL STREETS FOR SHARED USES: THE 'PEDESTRIAN PRIORITY STREET' IN SEOUL; Sunghoon Oh and Jennifer L. Kent

SECTION 5: INTO THE FUTURE
CHAPTER 19 - THE FUTURE OF WALKING?; Miles Tight


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ISBN-13: 9781787146280
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date: June, 2017
Pages: 351
Weight: 652g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Public Health

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