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Eric Britton Founding editor at World Streets Editions Paris Area, FrancePublic Policy Current World Streets Editions, World Streets, Sustainable Development, Business & Society Previous The commons, OECD -, United National Industrial Development Organization Education Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' 500+ connections Send a messageMore options fr.linkedin.com/in/ericbritton Contact Info ACTIVITY Eric Britton is now connected to Orosz Csaba, Associate Professor at TU Budapest 9 hours ago Anzir Boodoo endorsed the skills and expertise of Eric Britton Eric is endorsed for Sustainability. Endorse Connections Like Comment 11 hours ago Eric Britton via WordPress.com Early this morning World Streets welcomed our 3000th registered reader worldstreets.wordpress.com Early this morning World Streets welcomed our 3000th registered reader. After almost to the day four years of faithful service to the cause of sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable lives, since the beginning of the year we have... Like (1) Comment Send a message Share 11 hours ago David Morey likes this Eric Britton via WordPress.com Early this morning World Streets welcomed our 3000th registered... networkdispatches.wordpress.com Early this morning World Streets welcomed our 3000th registered follower. After almost to the day four years of faithful service to the cause of sustainable transport, sustainable cities and sustainable lives, since the beginning of the year we have... Like Comment Send a message Share 11 hours ago Eric Britton via WordPress.com Equity: A muddled discussion awaiting its first theory worldstreets.wordpress.com Nothing is more attractive to me than a muddled discussion awaiting its first theory. - E. O. Wilson, Biophilia, Harvard University Press, 1984 And if ever there were a “muddled discussion” in the domain of public policy, just about everything we... Like Comment Send a message Share 15 hours ago Eric Britton is now connected to Dine Liho, director and Helga Gonzalez-Nieves, Consultora en Movilidad Sostenible en Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico 1 day ago Eric Britton via WordPress.com The Helsinki Process worldstreets.wordpress.com In the last months of 2011 subject to a series of preparatory discussions, the author was invited to work with the support of a small team of professionals under the direction of the City Planning Department /Transportation in order to organize,... Like Comment Send a message Share 2 days ago Eric Britton is now connected to Rosario Cepeda Zorrilla, Estudiante en University of Leeds 2 days ago Eric Britton via WordPress.com Editorial: On the plane to Helsinki (March 2012/March 2013) worldstreets.wordpress.com One year almost ot the day after the start-up of the first Helsinki project, I have carefully reviewed this original article, slightly rewritten it for clarity, but above all have added a fair number of observations, questions and cautions by... Like Comment Send a message Share 3 days ago Eric Britton via WordPress.com Faces of Transportation Equity: Natasha Harrell worldstreets.wordpress.com (more…) Like Comment Send a message Share 3 days ago SEE MORE BACKGROUND SUMMARY Trained as a development economist, Francis Eric Knight Britton is managing director of EcoPlan International, an independent advisory network providing strategic counsel for government and business on policy and decision issues involving complex systems, social-technical change and sustainable development. He is coordinator of New Mobility Consult, a Founding Editor of Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice and World Streets, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sustainable Development at the Institut Supérieur de Gestion. Over the years in his for-profit work he has initiated, participated in, and carried to completion a range of international advisory assignments aimed at providing decision counsel to government, business and the volunteer sector in many parts of the world on thorny issues of technology, economy and society. His latest work has focused on the subject of economy, efficiency and equity in city transport and helping governments to ask the right questions and find practical solutions to urban transportation issues. (If you are looking for a work partner or senoir advisor in support of a challenging international sustainability project in my area of competence, you may find it useful to scan the New Mobility Consult background note at http://consult.newmobility.org/ which lists the major areas of planned advisory/consulting activity for 2013.. See http://britton.newmobility.org for additional personal background.) A short bio note has been placed by unknown third party in Wikipedia.com Specialties: Sustainable business strategies and implementation. New product and business development in industries undergoing rapid technological or environmental change. Public/private partnerships. Negotiations. Mediation. Reorganization of work. Participation. Local community activities and relations. Negotiating complex environments, pattern recognition, and winning.

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Founding editor World Streets Editions December 2012 – Present (4 months)Under discussion We are in the process of creating a new series of concise guides aimed directly at informing mayors and local government, each treating a single priority new mobility measure or strategy concerning which they need to have an authoritative easy to access strategic policy guide.

The goal of WSE is to commission and publish authoritative, readable books written by leading international authorities offering new thinking and practical decision guides for government on specific new mobility measures for improving transport, environment, equity and the economy of their cities. The modest objective is to have something so good, so cheap, so easy to get your hands on, that it can be acquired by every city hall on the planet.

Each book in this series will report directly and concisely to mayors, local government, and other key actors charged with making decisions on critical, topical and often poorly understood specific sustainable transport measures . The first round of topics in discussion with contributing authors for 2013 in the Vol. 1 series: Future of the Car in the City; include: Carsharing; Congestion Charges; Parking; Slow Strategies; Car restrictions; and Street Architecture.

Managing Editor World Streets October 2008 – Present (4 years 6 months)Paris, Lyon France World Streets is an independent, internet-based collaborative knowledge system specifically aimed at informing policy and practice in the field of sustainable transportation, and as part of that sustainable cities and sustainable lives. We want to make sure that World Streets is a good read, and a fast one, for our overloaded colleagues working on these issues in cities and countries around the world, as well for others trying to follow the full range of issues involved.

2013 Work Program Highlights Visting professor Sustainable Development, Business & Society May 2001 – Present (11 years 11 months)Paris, Helsinki, Chicago, Tallinn, Beijing, etc. Visiting professor for Seminars and Master classes for university graduate programs and public agencies on (a) Sustainable Development, Business & Society and (b) the New Mobility Agenda and the Politics of Transport in Cities.

Managing Director New Mobility Consult 1988 – Present (25 years)Lyon, Paris, France International collaboration and exchange to encourage and support adaptive innovation in your city. http://wp.me/psKUY-2Et

New Mobility Consult: 2013 Convenor ... the New Mobility Agenda 1974 – Present (39 years) http://www.newmobility.org Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, the Agenda was launched in 1988 as a wide open international platform for critical discussion and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of 'sustainable transportation and social justice'. There are no easy answers - but there are answers. Click here to see how this works..

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Ole Kruse Kappelgaard Consultant at ABC Softwork A true entrepreneur, enthusiastic, creative, energetic and charismatic – Eric is the type of person that is a must to every...View

Erel Avineri Professor at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering I am very happy to have the opportunity to recommend Eric Britton, who I (virtually) know since 2004. With strong...View 11 more recommendations

Managing Director EcoPlan International January 1967 – Present (46 years 3 months) Founder and Managing Director. EcoPlan International - an independent consulting and advisory network providing professional services to international industry, service providers, government and financial institutions. Founded in 1967 the group provides decision counsel to help our public and private sector clients better anticipate problems and opportunities that arise as a result of technological, structural, environmental or value changes in our chosen areas of specialization.

(Open)1 recommendation Alon Rozen Asst Dean, Professor, Consultant, Executive Trainer, Wine enthusiast I cannot recommend anyone as highly as Eric Britton! Not many people 'do the right thing' at all times and without regard to the potential payoff, yet Eric has made a career of this and has left the world a better place thanks to his efforts and...View

Founder & Director The commons March 1973 – October 2012 (39 years 8 months) The Commons : a first stop shop for concerned citizens, researchers, students, policy makers, entrepreneurs, investors or social activists interested in quickly getting a feel for world sustainability issues, views and developments from an unbiased critical perspective. We invite complex thinking about these complex issues which are loaded with internal contradictions and major divergences of views and priorities. A common thread in all our work and investigations is the potential for using technology positively to break the sustainability impasse that is currently the state of play in most places. The emphasis throughout is in laying the groundwork for action in terms of concrete polices and practices that can advance the sustainability and social justice agenda in your company, city, country, region . . . or in your own life and that of your family. Which after all is where sustainability must start. (Open)1 recommendation

Bernie Wagenblast Transportation Journalist & Voiceover Specialist I've admired the work Eric has done putting together The Commons. In fact, it provided some of the inspiration for what I've tried to do with my Transportation Communications Newsletter. Just taking a brief look at his site shows the effort and...View Consultant

OECD - May 1969 – December 1998 (29 years 8 months)Paris Area, France Occasional consultant, speaker and advisor in the field of environment, economic development, transport, technology and public policy. To the Environment Directorate, the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD-DAC) and the Development Centre,

Consultant/advisor United National Industrial Development Organization 1967 – 1974 (7 years) United National Industrial Development Organization Consultancy and advisory assignments involving industrial planning and the environment interface, taking me both to headquarters in Vienna and field missions in East Africa, Central America, the Near East, and southern Europe.

Instructor, Dept of Economics New York University 1965 – 1966 (1 year) Taught introductory courses in micro and macro economics to undergraduates, in parallel with course work for the PhD program in economics at the School of Graduate Faculties, Columbia University.. LANGUAGES Several Western European languages SKILLS & EXPERTISE Most endorsed for...

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