Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process 2nd edition

Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process (RTPI Library Series)
by: Susan Owens
Publisher: Routledge; 2nd edition (13 Dec. 2010)
Language: English
Paperback: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 0415485711
ISBN-13: 9780415485715
Book Description
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.
‘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
About the Author
Susan Owens is Professor of Environment and Policy at the University of Cambridge, Department of Geography, and a Professorial Fellow of Newnham College. She has long-standing research interests in environmental policy, politics and planning. She was a member of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1998-2008.
Richard Cowell is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning and Policy at Cardiff University, where his research focuses on the relationship between planning and sustainable development.