Environmental Policy

Drawing on evidence from implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) in eight case studies, this book examines a range of approaches to participatory river basin management planning, and considers how participation impacted on the environmental standard of planning documents, qual..

This title, first published in 1988, includes an application of the author’s methodology to tomato production, in which Antle illuminates the roles that alternative methods of pest management play in producer welfare. He also develops a more general empirical framework for studying producer welfare ..

Around the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innovative approaches to environmental planning. Focusing on the New Zealand government's innovations in sustainable and environmental planning, particula..

This edited collection, first published in 1988, was the first title to bring international perspectives into the field of rural planning. Using a comparative approach and a broad range of case studies, including Britain, Scandinavia, the U.S.S.R. and New Zealand, the authors review the major proble..

This edited collection, first published in 1988, was the first title to bring international perspectives into the field of rural planning. Using a comparative approach and a broad range of case studies, including Britain, Scandinavia, the U.S.S.R. and New Zealand, the authors review the major proble..

This book proposes a comprehensive conceptualization of policy integration and negotiates pertinent theoretical, methodological and applied issues from the perspective of selected EU policies - rural development, regional development, transport, social, economic, environmental, water resources, and ..

This book examines the tensions between political authority and expert authority in the formation of public policy in liberal democracies. It aims to illustrate and better understand the nature of these tensions rather than argue specific ways of resolving them. Each chapter explores the complexity ..

Positive Ecology..

This book explores the failure of the ‘sustainability’ paradigm to avert now-inevitable climate change. It asks whether some transformed version of sustainability could still help us, or if not, where we might find hope for a post-sustainable world. It was originally published as a special issue of ..

The past decade has seen a marked increase in the innovative and dynamic types of protected areas in Europe. Illustrated with a wide range of case studies from across Europe, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between protected areas and regional development policies a..

The past decade has seen a marked increase in the innovative and dynamic types of protected areas in Europe. Illustrated with a wide range of case studies from across Europe, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between protected areas and regional development policies a..

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...