Transport

Transport (commonly used in the U.K.), or transportation (used in the U.S.), is the easiest way of movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport enables trade between people, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of the …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 October 2024 English

Providing a comprehensive understanding of how different countries are navigating the complexities of maintaining a robust mining sector, supplying the world with critical minerals, and reducing emissions from coal mining …

(coastal, urban, rural), disaster risk reduction, transport infrastructure, mining, fisheries, forestry, and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

The unpaid bill for this unusual emigrant to America and its transportation over the watery wastes of the Atlantic Ocean


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …

It was a chilly December morning, and after years of planning, construction, and delays, TransLink, Metro Vancouver’s transportation


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …

The film’s elliptical narrative structure transports the spectator through distinct periods of time, depicting the home’


DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

their home. The drums were good but too big to transport. The alto saxophone came next, and I worked all


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, …

tensions, cultural festivals, extreme poverty, artistic scenes, international events, gun violence, public transit, and transportation emphasizing local government authorityCity Autonomy to Metagovernance of Place 25 spending power to fund housing and transportation Local governments regulate the use of land, operate and maintain transportation infrastructures and services, provide protective therefore property values and local government finances) by wholly or partially funding the creation and maintenance of transportation


NSP: New Society Publishers · 8 October 2024 English

Everyone's guide to using the power of science to produce healthier and tastier fruits and vegetables From garden to fork, Food Science for Gardeners is everyone's guide to optimizing the …

larger scale they provide structure to muscles. Transport proteins move specific molecules across cell


Great Lakes United · 2 October 2024

Lawrence Cities Initiative Todd Ambs Commissioner Great Lakes Commission Julie Barrett-O'Neill Regional Director New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Scott Blackburn Environmental Protection Great Lakes St. [...] Lawrence Seaway …

Program Specialist Great Lakes Commission Carolyn Ryan Assistant Commissioner for Sustainability and Chie NYS Department of Transportation


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …

tar-sands surveying, extraction, separation, and transport in the early twentieth century. Although I have


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 30 September 2024 English

G20 governments provided at least USD 168 billion in public financial support for renewable power in 2023, less than one third of G20 fossil fuel subsidies that year. Advanced G20 …

a percent of GDP (even excluding biofuels for transport), exceeding China and several advanced economies billion)7 being consumption subsidies (e.g., for transport fuels and electricity). Subsidies for fossil fuels 2024d). In addition, fossil fuel subsidies include transport (gasoline and diesel), but the IISD inventory


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