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PLANNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE EUROPE? - TU Berlin

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example, the range was in fact between 0.5 and 1.4 percent of GDP, averaging 1.1<br />

percent (see figure below). 13<br />

Apart from its methodological questionability, such an<br />

approach is, of course, also questionable from a larger sustainability perspective,<br />

precisely because it is so fundamentally uncritical of the status quo - which is also why<br />

the TINA exercise is such a revealingly typical example of an eco-modernist<br />

rationalization process.<br />

Figure 7.8 EU Data on Transport Infrastructure Investment as Percentage of GDP<br />

Source: http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy_transport/etif/transport_general/infrastructure<br />

_investment.html, Last accessed 13 June, 2002<br />

13 Also note that up to 1994, these data, displayed on the EU DG TREN website, were produced by the<br />

European Centre for Infrastructure Studies (ECIS), a pro-infrastructure research center set up in the early<br />

1990s in the wake of the first TEN ‘missing links’ enthusiasm. The center closed under somewhat<br />

mysterious circumstances in 1996, including financial disagreements.

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