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Land and limits : interpreting sustainability in the planning process / / Susan Owens and Richard Cowell



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Autore: Owens Susan E
Titolo: Land and limits : interpreting sustainability in the planning process / / Susan Owens and Richard Cowell
Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
Disciplina: 333.730941
Soggetto topico: Land use - Great Britain - Planning
Land use - Environmental aspects - Great Britain
Land use - Government policy - Great Britain
Environmental policy - Great Britain
Transportation and state - Great Britain
Natural resources - Government policy - Great Britain
Sustainable development - Great Britain
Altri autori: CowellRichard  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; 1 Old conflicts and new ideas; Introduction; Land, environment and sustainability; The remit of land-use planning; Planning in the UK; An outline; 2 Rhetoric, policy and practice: sustainable development as a planning issue; Introduction; Sustainable development: the need for planning; A new rationale for planning?; Rhetoric and reality; Where next?; 3 Interpreting sustainability; Introduction; Environmental capital: a metaphor?; Ethics; Politics; Planning as a dialogical forum; Conclusions
4 Defining and defending: approaches to planning for sustainabilityIntroduction; An analytical arms race; Engaging 'the public'?; Integration: the elusive goal; Concluding comments; 5 Moving targets: planning for an integrated transport policy; Introduction; Transport, land use and sustainability: reframing the connections; A role for land-use planning?; Towards sustainability?; The new realism: planning in context; Conclusions; 6 Planning for biodiversity: ethics, policies and practice; Introduction; Conservation, land and planning; Nature as 'environmental capital'; In defence of nature
Interpreting protectionProgress and prospects; 7 Distributing development: sustainability and equity in minerals planning; Introduction; Sustainability, uneven development and non-renewable resources; Minerals planning in the UK: supply and sustainability; Place, power and spatial scale; Scales of justice; Conclusions; 8 Conclusions and reflections; Introduction; An active interface; Making a difference?; After sustainability; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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. It examines the paradox that in spite of increasing attention to sustainability, land use conflict is as ubiquitous and intense as ever.
ISBN: 1-134-71529-3
1-134-71530-7
1-280-10791-X
0-203-99682-8
9780203996829
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9911126426403321
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Serie: Routledge research global environmental change series.