FRONT COVER -- SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUTURES -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: CONTEXT -- CHAPTER 1 SUSTAINABLE AVIATION FUTURES: CRISES, CONTESTED REALITIES AND PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE -- CONTESTED REALITIES, SUSTAINABLE FUTURES AND AVIATION -- AVIATION FUTURES -- AIMS OF THE VOLUME -- THE CONTRIBUTIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 CONTINENTS SHIFTING, CLOUDS GATHERING: THE TRAJECTORY OF GLOBAL AVIATION EXPANSION -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTINENTAL SHIFTS IN GLOBAL AVIATION GEOGRAPHY -- THREE CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON -- TOWARD THE COMET'S CENTENNIAL -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 3 CARBON BUDGETS FOR AVIATION OR GAMBLE WITH OUR FUTURE? -- AVIATION POLICY WITHIN THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE -- CLIMATE CHANGE TARGETS -- AVIATION TRENDS -- MITIGATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE AVIATION SECTOR -- CO2 GROWTH FROM AVIATION -- CAN AVIATION EMISSIONS FIT WITH CLIMATE CHANGE TARGETS? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART II: CHALLENGES -- CHAPTER 4 ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM GATE TO GATE: AVIATION'S ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EXAMINED -- AVIATION TECHNOLOGY - THE FIRST 100 YEARS -- THE PROSPECTS FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 AVIATION AND THE EU EMISSIONS TRADING SYSTEM -- INTRODUCTION -- ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN AVIATION -- REVIEW OF THE EU ETS -- AVIATION IN THE EU ETS -- POTENTIAL IMPACTS ON THE AVIATION SECTOR OF ITS INCLUSION IN THE EU ETS -- SUMMARY AND RECENT POLICY DEVELOPMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 AIRPORT COMPANIES AS SILENT PARTNERS: THE COMPLEX INTERPLAY BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OWNERSHIP -- AIRPORT COMPANIES AS AUTONOMOUS ACTORS? -- THE CREATION AND ACCUMULATION OF RESOURCES -- REGULATORY REFORMS AND THEIR IMPACT ON AIRPORT COMPANIES -- THE RESCALING OF AIRPORT MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 SUSTAINABILITY AND NOISE ANNOYANCE -- THE PUBLIC ISSUE OF AIRCRAFT NOISE -- NOISE POLICIES AND RESEARCH IN AMSTERDAM AND ZURICH -- AMSTERDAM: ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION -- SWITZERLAND: NOISE REDISTRIBUTION -- NOISE PERCEPTIONS IN AMSTERDAM AND ZURICH -- PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES -- POLICY RELEVANCE -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 COMPETITION, INTEGRATION, SUBSTITUTION: MYTHS AND REALITIES CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND AIR TRANSPORT IN EUROPE -- FROM REVENUES TO GREENER MOBILITIES: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HSR IN EUROPE -- THE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT OF MODE SUBSTITUTION TO HSR -- AIR-HSR COMPETITION: MYTHS AND REALITIES -- AIR-HSR INTEGRATION: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 AERIAL EMERGENCE: CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF EUROPEAN AIRSPACE -- INTRODUCTION -- AERIAL LIFE AND 'EMERGENCY' -- ASH CLOUDS, CRISIS AND SYSTEMIC DISRUPTION -- COORDINATION -- VISUALISATION -- RESPONSIBILITY -- DISTRIBUTION -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART III: PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE -- CHAPTER 10 COALITION, AVIATION AND THE DESCENT TO 'POLITICS AS USUAL' -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS 'POLITICS AS USUAL'? -- VIRTÙ AND FORTUNA IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS -- TRAINS AND BOATS AND PLANES -- THE CONTRACTION OF THE AIRPORT EXPANSION DEBATE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRANKFURT/MAIN AIRPORT: A TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE OF LOSS AND GAIN -- AIRPORTS AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE -- THE GOVERNANCE OF AIRPORT EXPANSION IN GERMANY -- BALANCING INTERESTS -- THE HISTORY OF FRA -- BEARING CONSEQUENCES AND DISCARDING THEM AGAIN -- FROM NIGHT FLIGHT BAN TO THE MAGIC 17 -- RECENT PROTEST DEVELOPMENT -- ANALYSIS -- NARRATIVES TOLD IN THE COURSE OF THE CONFLICT -- STABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE REGIONAL GOVERNANCE CONTEXT -- IS AIRPORT GOVERNANCE POSSIBLE?.

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