With apologies for cross-posting:
Please note this new book by my colleague Richard Cowell, who will
be pleased to receive any comments or enquiries.
Cliff Guy
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*NEW BOOK ON PLANNING AND SUSTAINABILITY*
Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process
by Susan Owens and Richard Cowell
Published 2002, Routledge, London, 256pp, Hardback: 0-415-
16276-9
Price - £65.00
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 exraction. Challenging
conclusions are drawn together in the final chapter, and the potential
for
planning to provide a space for dialogue about evironment and
development
is explored.
This book will be essential reading for academics, professionals and
advanced students in the fields of environmental policy and land use
planning
Contents:
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 refections
Orders can be addressed to your usual supplier or, should you wish
to
order a copy direct, please contact:
Direct Orders
Routledge
FREEPOST
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 5BR
United Kingdom
Or use the customer hotline:
Tel: +44 (0) 1264 343071
FAX: +44 (0)1264 343005
Internet site: www.routledge.com
Dr Richard Cowell
Department of City and Regional Planning
Cardiff University
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff
CF10 3WA
Tel: 00 44 (0)29 20 876684
Fax: 00 44 (0)29 20 874845
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Professor Cliff Guy
Department of City and Regional Planning
University of Wales Cardiff
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff CF10 3WA
Wales, UK
Tel: +44 (0)29-20875798 or 20874882
Fax: +44 (0)29-20874845
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