Land and Limits
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'...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
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'I would recommend that the book should be read widely and deeply by politicans, developers and academics alike...' - Anna R. Davies, Environmental Values
'There are dozens of interesting ideas and thought-provoking comments in this book.' -Geographical Association, John Fairburn, Staffordshire University
'A lucid and accessible review of the theoretical foundations of the subject matter leads the reader into a detailed examination of current land use practices for delivering sustainable UK strategies in key areas of resource management.' -Tony Jackson, University of Dundee
'A refreshingly critical and theoretically sophisticated analysis of sustainable development in practice...the book should be read widely and deeply by politicians, developers and academics alike' -Environmental Values
'Everyone who teaches planners should read this...a tightly argued and extremely scholarly book' -International Planning Studies
Explores the impact of an influential idea - sustainable development - on the institutions and practices governing use of land. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 264
- ISBN
- 9780415485715
- Utgave
- 2. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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'...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
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'I would recommend that the book should be read widely and deeply by politicans, developers and academics alike...' - Anna R. Davies, Environmental Values
'There are dozens of interesting ideas and thought-provoking comments in this book.' -Geographical Association, John Fairburn, Staffordshire University
'A lucid and accessible review of the theoretical foundations of the subject matter leads the reader into a detailed examination of current land use practices for delivering sustainable UK strategies in key areas of resource management.' -Tony Jackson, University of Dundee
'A refreshingly critical and theoretically sophisticated analysis of sustainable development in practice...the book should be read widely and deeply by politicians, developers and academics alike' -Environmental Values
'Everyone who teaches planners should read this...a tightly argued and extremely scholarly book' -International Planning Studies
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'...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.
'For its measured and scholarly style, its robust dismissal of humbug and rhetoric, and its detailed engagement with a series of controversial environmental issues in the UK, the book deserves to be read widely by academics and practitioners alike' - Richard Munton, Land Use Policy, 2002
'Everyone who teaches planners should read this book' - Yvonne Rydin, International Planning Studies, 2003
'In Land and Limits...[the authors]...have answered academic demands for a cogently argued and thoroughly sourced text that explores the relationships between sustainable development and planning' - Tony Jackson, Town Planning Review 2003
'Susan Owens and Richard Cowell have given us an unflinchingly ambitious study of the politics, pitfalls and promises of "sustainability" not as a popular mantra but as a real, contested, deeply ambiguous and yet inspiring policy objective.' - John Forester, Cornell University
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