Critical Issues in Aviation and the Environment 2014

TRB E-Circular 184: Critical Issues in Aviation and the Environment 2014 explores issues that address the major environmental components affected by aviation activities, sustainable solutions that have evolved and continue to be developed to minimize aviation’s environmental impacts, and key processes that link aviation and the environment. The focus of the e-circular is on the state of science and on identification of priority research with potential to yield benefits during the next several years to several decades.

This publication updates and expands on earlier versions of Critical Issues in Aviation and the Environment in the United States that were published in 2004, 2005, 2009, and 2011.