Research Guides: Sustainable Aviation: Books

Suggested Books

Risk Management and Corporate Sustainability in Aviation by Triant G. Flouris; Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz
Publisher: Ashgate, 2011
Air transport corporations need a strong sustainability management framework to effectively manage economic, environmental and social risks to achieve their corporate sustainability objectives, and to meet their stakeholders' demands. This book offers a new Enterprise Sustainability Risk Management (ESRM) model to fulfill these requirements.
Sustainable Aviation by T. Hikmet Karakoc (Editor); C. Ozgur Colpan (Editor); Onder Altuntas (Editor); Yasin Sohret (Editor)
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019
This book provides readers with a basic understanding of the concepts and methodologies of sustainable aviation. In-depth chapters discuss the key elements of sustainable aviation and provide complete coverage of essential topics including airport, energy, and noise management along with novel technologies, standards and a review of the current literature on green airports, sustainable aircraft design, biodiversity management, and alternative fuels.
Sustainable Aviation Futures by Lucy Budd (Volume Editor); Steven Griggs (Volume Editor); David Howarth (Volume Editor)
Publisher: Emerald Group, 2013
This volume brings together some of the leading names in global aviation policy research to provide a unique and ground breaking synthesis of current debates on sustainable aviation.

Looking Beyond the Runway: Airlines Innovating with Best Practices While Facing Realities by Nawal K. Taneja
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2010
In this candidly-written book, Nawal Taneja explains what will separate the winners from the losers. He maintains the leaders will be the airlines that: (1) exploit this crisis-driven change to their best advantage, (2) learn to work around the airline-inherent constraints that prevent them from running their businesses just like other businesses, (3) learn from successes and failures of other global enterprises, (4) sharpen their business intelligence, analytics, and strategic agility, and (5) proactively explore the "pockets of growth" in this emerging-markets century. To help airline executives become informed of new competitive games, the author analyzes numerous business sectors such as auto, hospitality, retail, technology, and entertainment.
New Frontiers in Sustainable Aviation by T. Hikmet Karakoc (Editor); Can Ozgur Colpan (Editor); Alper Dalkiran (Editor)
Publisher: Springer International, 2022
This book examines recent progress and new technological developments in sustainable aviation. It covers alternative fuel types, propulsion technologies, and aerial vehicle (unmanned aerial vehicles, drones, passenger air) emission reduction technologies. The effects of these technologies on vehicle performance, cost, and environmental impact are discussed, and case studies, practical applications, and engineering solutions and methodologies are provided. This collection will be an invaluable reference for researchers, practicing engineers, and students.
Reframing Economic Policy Towards Sustainability: Explored Through a Case Study into Aviation by Peter McManners
Publisher: Routledge, 2017
This book reports twin-track research which interweaves the intellectual argument over the future of the world economy intertwined with empirical research into the challenge of sustainability in aviation. Discussing the prime challenges of this century through the lens of the intractable policy stalemate in aviation, this book leads the reader to the identification of a new way forward.

The Airline Profit Cycle: A System Analysis of Airline Industry Dynamics by Eva-Maria Cronrath
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2017
This book is useful for aviation industry decision makers, investors, policy makers, and researchers because it explains why the airline industry earns or loses money. This knowledge will advance forecasting and market intelligence. Furthermore, the book offers practitioners different suggestions to sustainably improve the airline industry's profitability. The book is also recommended as a case study for system analysis as well as industry cyclicality at graduate or postgraduate level for courses such as engineering, economics, or management.
Aviation Investment: Economic Appraisal for Airports, Air Traffic Management, Airlines and Aeronautics by Doramas Jorge-Calderón
Publisher: Routledge, 2020
Aviation Investment offers all aviation sub-sectors a single-source reference, bringing together the theoretical background of the economic appraisal literature and aviation investment in practice. It is written in a style that is accessible to non-academic professionals, using formulae only where strictly necessary to enable practical applications, and benefits from the substantial practical experience of the author.
Flying off Course : Airline Economics and Marketing by Rigas Doganis
Publisher: Routledge, 2019
This book provides a complete, practical introduction to the fundamentals of airline economics and marketing. It explores the structure of the market, the nature of airline costs, issues around pricing and demand, and the latest developments in e-commerce.

Sustainable Aviation: Energy and Environmental Issues by Hikmet Karakoc (Editor); et al.
Publisher: Springer, 2016
This expansive reference on the use of clean energy technologies in the aviation industry focuses on tools and solutions for maximizing the energy efficiency of aircraft, airports, and other auxiliary components of air transit.
Sustainable Aviation: Greening the Flight Path by Thomas Walker (Editor); Angela Stefania Bergantino (Editor); Northrop Sprung-Much (Editor); Luisa Loiacono (Editor)
Publisher: Springer International, 2019
This book discusses important new trends and outlines likely future developments in carbon emission reduction, carbon trading, and the impact of emerging technologies, as well as social, legal, and regulatory changes as they pertain to the aviation sector. The book offers an invaluable reference guide for practitioners, regulators, academics, and students alike, in fields ranging from business and engineering to the social sciences.
Will Sustainability Fly? : Aviation Fuel Options in a Low-Carbon World by Walter J. Palmer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 2015
With a focus on aviation fuel, this book's aim is to provide background in technical and policy terms, from the broadest reliable sources of information available, for the necessary discourse on society's reaction to the evolving aviation emissions profile. It considers what policy has been, why and how commercial air travel is committed to its current liquid fuel, how that fuel can be made without using fossil-source materials, and the barriers to change.

Aviation and International Cooperation : Human and Public Policy Issues by Ruwantissa Abeyratne
Publisher: Springer, 2015
This book addresses subjects such as international resolutions on human rights and other human rights conventions related to aviation that impact both air transport consumers and people on the ground who are threatened by air strikes through drone attacks; disabled and obese airline passengers; compensation for delayed carriage and the denial of carriage; noise and air pollution caused by aviation and their effects on human health and well-being; prevention of death or injury to passengers and attendant compensatory rights; risk management; relief flights; and racial profiling.
Ethical Issues in Aviation by Elizabeth Hoppe, Ed.
Publisher: Routledge, 2018
Focusing on both past and current topics in aviation, this work provides the reader with an overview of the major themes in aviation ethics that cover a broad range of subjects. Contributors include academics who do research in the field as well as professionals who provide first-hand accounts of the ethical situations that arise in the aviation industry.
Values, Ergonomics and Risk Management in Aviation Business Strategy by Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz; Triant G. Flouris
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore, 2020
The book largely focuses on values, ergonomy and risk management in the context of aviation business strategy. Offering insights into the principles of successful aviation business management using a value-based approach, it is a valuable resource for academics and postgraduate students as well as professionals in the aviation industry.

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