The automotive industry in an era of eco-austerity : creating an industry as if the planet mattered / Peter E. Wells.

Author/creator Wells, P. E., 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoCheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2010.
Descriptionx, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The automotive industry in crisis : economic and environmental failure -- Diversity and the industrial ecology metaphor -- Contemporary global diversity and cultures of automobility -- Emergent diversity in the global automotive industry : the policy agenda -- Alternative business models as the basis of a new industrial ecology of the automobile -- Enablers and limiters of change.
Abstract This book analyses the future prospects of the largest manufacturing sector in the world, the automotive industry, at a time of unprecedented global financial crisis and unrelenting environmental pressure.--[back cover]
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-192) and index.
LCCN 2009941410
ISBN9781848449671
ISBN1848449674

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Joyner General Stacks HD9710.A2 W45 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold