Beschreibung:
The book offers an invaluable reference guide for practitioners, regulators, academics, and students alike, in fields ranging from business and engineering to the social sciences. It can be used as a textbook, and will benefit anyone interested in the future of aviation and our planet.
Chapter 1. Sustaining Flight: Comprehension, Assessment, and Certification of Sustainability in Aviation.- Chapter 2. Boulding, Brundtland, economics, and efforts to integrate air transportation policies into sustainable development.- Chapter 3. Environmentally Sustainable Air Transport: A Focus on Airline Productivity.- Chapter 4. The analysis of the sustainability commitment formulation and implementation for the selected airlines.- Chapter 5. Environmental Policies in European Aviation: A Stakeholder Management Perspective.- Chapter 6. Market Based Measures: the European Union Emission Trading Scheme and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation.- Chapter 7. Impact of Air Transport on the Noise Level in the City of Sofia.- Chapter 8. Social dimensions of aviation on sustainable development.- Chapter 9. An element-by-element approach for a holistic estimation of the airport carbon footprint.- Chapter 10. Can laboratory experiments help in evaluating emission trading schemes? A pilot experiment on aviation allowances. Lessons to be learned.- Chapter 11. Milestone of Greening the Flight Path: Alternative Fuels.- Chapter 12. External benefits of smart payment tools for airport train services.- Chapter 13. Sustainable Alternative Air Transport Technologies.