
Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process: 7
Author(s): Richard Cowell (Author), Susan Owens (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 Nov. 2001
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415162769
- ISBN-13: 9780415162760
Book Description
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.
‘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
‘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’ – Land Use Policy, 2002
‘In Land and Limits…[the authors]…have answered academic demands for a cogently argued and thoroughly sourced text that explores the relationship between sustainable development and planning’ – Town Planning Review 2003
‘…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.
‘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
‘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’ – Land Use Policy, 2002
‘In Land and Limits…[the authors]…have answered academic demands for a cogently argued and thoroughly sourced text that explores the relationship between sustainable development and planning’ – Town Planning Review 2003
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