Annotated Bibliography on Personal Lifestyle Choices in Modern Urban Settings

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Annotated Biliography on Personal Lifestyle Choices in Modern Urban Settings
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Annotated Biliography on Personal Lifestyle Choices in Modern Urban Settings
Dora, C., & Phillips, M. (2000). Transport Environment and health. Copenhagen: WHO
regional publications. European series
W.H.O acknowledges the policies that most European countries have adopted to control
automobiles and related environmental effects to the globe. This resource seeks to alert policy
analysts, politicians and decision-makers about the effects of transport and the means to reduce
them. The detrimental impacts of current transport policies have been questioned over their
sustainability to control the emission of gases in the atmosphere. The research indicates that 65%
of people in the world are exposed to different health and environmental threats that arise from
urban automobile use. For example, Europe experienced an increased expansion of motorbike
use where people shited from the use of public transport to personal means of transport like
vehicles and motorbikes. These changes expose the globe to greater risks that arise from a
changing urban lifestyle characterised by an increased automobile use. The research focusses on
the challenge that countries have in promoting sustainable transport alternatives to prevent the
environmental effects associated with urban automobile lifestyles.
From the resource, urban lifestyles and use of automobiles has both short-term and long-
term effects that are experienced. Short-term effects can be felt and pass after a short time while
long-term effects are not felt since they pile up and manifest in other environmental changes like
global warming. Gas emissions from automobile can cause respiratory problems this leading to
increased mortality, admission to hospitals and other undocumented effects. The biggest worry
of such emissions is climate change from carbon dioxide with direct effects like heat waves,
droughts and floods. Such effects can be evident within a decade or even longer than that. This
resource highlights the effects that urban lifestyles of increased automobile have on the