Walking : Connecting Sustainable Transport with Health.

This book features a multidisciplinary focus on walking as a mode in the context of transportation, urban planning and health. Breaking down the silos, this book presents a multidisciplinary focus bringing together research from transport, public health and planning to show linkages and the variatio...

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Author / Creator: Mulley, Corinne.
Other Authors / Creators:Gebel, Klaus.
Ding, Ding.
Ding, Ding.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
Series:Transport and Sustainability Ser.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Summary:This book features a multidisciplinary focus on walking as a mode in the context of transportation, urban planning and health. Breaking down the silos, this book presents a multidisciplinary focus bringing together research from transport, public health and planning to show linkages and the variation in experience around the world.
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.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (442 pages)
ISBN:9781787146273
Author Notes:Corinne Mulley is the founding Chair in Public Transport at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Klaus Gebel is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the School of Allied Health at Australian Catholic University in North Sydney, Australia. Ding (Melody) Ding is a Senior Research Fellow at Sydney School of Public Health, the University of Sydney, Australia.