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Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process (Routledge Research in Global Environmental Change)
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Product Description
In a new and critical analysis, this book explores the impact of an influential idea - sustainable development - on the institutions and practices governing use of land.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1450559 in Books
- Published on: 2001-11-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
'...it is particularly rare to find a cohesive and coherent text on planning for sustainability...as a result Land and Limits will be a useful text for a wide audience - Anna R. Davies, Environmental Values.
From the Back Cover
In a new and critical analysis, this book explores the impact of an influential idea sustainable development on the institutions and practices governing the use of land. A central theme is the paradox that in spite of increasing attention to sustainability, land use conflict is as ubiquitous, and as intense, as ever.
In a rigorous discussion of concepts, policy instruments and contemporary planning dilemmas, the authors challenge prevailing assumptions about planning for sustainability. After charting the remarkable growth in expectations of planning, they show how attempts to interpret sustainability must lead inexorably to moral and political choices of a fundamental kind.
Important themes developed in the first half of the book are carried through into chapters that assess the role of planning in three vital areas: transport, biodiversity and minerals extraction. Challenging conclusions are drawn together in the final chapter, and the potential for planning to provide a space for dialogue ab
