The automotive industry in an era of eco-austerity : creating an industry as if the planet mattered / Peter E. Wells.

Includes bibliographical references (p.171-192 ) and index.

The automotive industry in crisis: economic and environmental failure -- Diversity and the industrial ecology metaphor -- Contemporary global diversity and cultures of automobility -- Emergent diversity in the global automotive industry: the policy agenda -- Alternative business models as the basis of a new industrial ecology of the automobile -- Enablers and limiters of change.

This book analyses the future prospects of the largest manufacturing sector in the world, the automotive industry, at a time of unprecedented global financial crisis and unrelenting environmental pressure.--[back cover]