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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450983803321

Titolo

Planning sustainability / / edited by Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-71075-5

1-280-33008-2

0-203-05869-0

0-203-27174-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Environmental politics

Altri autori (Persone)

KennyMichael

MeadowcroftJames

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Planning

Economic development - Environmental aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a conference held in 1995 at Sheffield University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction MICHAEL KENNY AND JAMES MEADOWCROFT; Planning for sustainable development: what can be learned from the critics? JAMES MEADOWCROFT; A century of planning CHARLES E. LINDBLOM; Pathways to sustainability: issues, policies and theories MICHAEL REDCLIFT; Sustainability and markets: on the neo-classical model of environmental economics MICHAEL JACOBS; Scale, complexity and the conundrum of sustainability WILLIAM REES; From sustainability to basic income WOUTER ACHTERBERG

Three decades of environmental planning: what have we really learned? PAUL SELMANNational environmental policy planning in the face of uncertainty MARTIN JNICKE AND HELGE JRGENS; Local sustainability in a sea of globalisation? The case of food policy TIM LANG; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics. The authors, leading scholars in the field, explore the relationship between



environmental sustainability - one of the most important innovations in recent political discourse and planning, an idea which has slipped from public attention recently.