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Environmental Technology and the Future of Flight

Sustainable Aviation Futures

ISBN: 978-1-78190-595-1, eISBN: 978-1-78190-596-8

Publication date: 23 December 2013

Abstract

Purpose

To examine the role of new aeronautical technologies in improving commercial aviation’s environmental performance.

Methodology/approach

Reviews the environmental improvements that may be conferred through the adoption of alternative aviation fuels and new airframe, engine and navigation technologies.

Findings

Although aeronautical technologies have evolved considerably since the earliest days of powered flight, the aviation industry is now reaching a point of diminishing returns as growing global consumer demand for air transport outstrips incremental improvements in environmental efficiency. The chapter describes some of the technological interventions that are being pursued to improve aviation’s environmental performance and discusses the extent to which these innovations will help to deliver a more sustainable aviation industry.

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Citation

Budd, L. and Budd, T. (2013), "Environmental Technology and the Future of Flight", Sustainable Aviation Futures (Transport and Sustainability, Vol. 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 87-107. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2044-9941(2013)0000004004

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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