Susan Owens, Richard Cowell

Land and Limits

Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the impact of an influential idea - sustainable development - on the institutions and practices governing use of land. The new edition adds a Foreword by Professor John Forester as well as a substantial chapter by the authors in which they reflect on the arguments propounded in the book in the light of subsequent events.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138174559
• ISBN-10: 1138174556
• Artikelnr.: 45024597

Autorenporträt

Susan Owens is Professor of Environment and Policy at the University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, and a Professorial Fellow of Newnham College. She has long-standing research interests in environmental policy, politics and planning. She was a member of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1998-2008. Richard Cowell is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning and Policy at Cardiff University, where his research focuses on the relationship between planning and sustainable development.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword John Forester Introduction 1. Old Conflicts and New Ideas 2.
Rhetoric, Policy and Practice: Sustainable Development as a Planning Issue
3. Interpreting Sustainability 4. Defining and Defending: Approaches to
Planning for Sustainability 5. Moving Targets: Planning for an Integrated
Transport Policy 6. Planning for Biodiversity: Ethics, Policies and
Practice 7. Distributing Development: Sustainability and Equity in Minerals
Planning 8. Conclusions and Reflections