Aviation Social and Economic Impacts

by Stephen Ison and Lucy Budd

As both an enabler and accelerator of globalisation, aviation has had profound and sometime unintended and unanticipated social and economic impacts. Commercial airports are not only transport nodes that facilitate aerial movement they are also major centres of employment but often sites of political contestation surrounding their planning and development as economic growth imperatives conflict with environmental concerns.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472451597
• ISBN13: 9781472451590
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 374 Pages