Urban Planning and Environment: Urban Planning and Environment
About the Book Series
Maintaining and enhancing living conditions in cities through a combination of physical planning and environmental management is a newly emerging focus of governments around the world. For example, local governments seek to insulate sensitive land uses such as residential areas from environmentally intrusive activities such as major transport facilities and manufacturing. Regional governments protect water quality and natural habitat by enforcing pollution controls and regulating the location of growth. Some national governments fund acquisition of strategically important sites, facilitate the renewal of brown fields, and even develop integrated environmental quality plans. The aim of this series is to share information on experiments and best practices of governments at several levels. These empirically-based studies present and critically assess a variety of initiatives to improve environmental quality. Although institutional and cultural contexts vary, lessons from one commonly can provide useful ideas to other communities. Each of the contributions are independently peer reviewed, and are intended to be helpful to professional planners and environmental managers, elected officials, representatives of NGOs, and researchers seeking improved ways to resolve environmental problems in urban areas and to foster sustainable urban development.
Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean
1st Edition
Edited
By Eris Dawn Schoburgh, Tracy A. McFarlane, Stephanie V. McDonald
December 26, 2025
Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean critically examines the socio-geographic context of island states, prioritising the nuanced experiences of Caribbean island states and territories that are largely considered small island developing states (SIDS), against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable ...
Conflict and Change in Australia's Peri-Urban Landscapes
1st Edition
By Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, Marco Amati
October 14, 2024
In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential ...
Instruments of Land Policy: Dealing with Scarcity of Land
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann
March 21, 2023
In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments ...
Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places
1st Edition
Edited
By Elen-Maarja Trell, Britta Restemeyer, Melanie M. Bakema, Bettina van Hoven
January 21, 2023
Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the ways in which the concept ‘resilience’ has been addressed in social sciences research. In doing so, this edited book draws together state-of-the-art research from a variety of disciplines (i.e. spatial...
Regulating Coastal Zones: International Perspectives on Land Management Instruments
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachelle Alterman, Cygal Pellach
November 27, 2020
Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts. In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from environmentalists, land...
Bicycle Urbanism: Reimagining Bicycle Friendly Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Berney
March 04, 2020
Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. Much of the discussion surrounding cycling has focused on bicycle facility design—how to ...
Nordic Experiences of Sustainable Planning: Policy and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir
March 04, 2020
For well over a decade, there has been a drive towards sustainability in planning throughout the Nordic countries. But are these countries experiencing a paradigm shift in planning research and practice with regards to sustainability? Or is the sustainability discourse leading them into an impasse ...
How Cities Will Save the World: Urban Innovation in the Face of Population Flows, Climate Change and Economic Inequality
1st Edition
By Ray Brescia, John Travis Marshall
January 15, 2018
Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine ...
Towards Sustainable Cities: East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions
1st Edition
By Peter J. Marcotullio, André Sorensen
September 25, 2017
While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have ...
Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level: The Potential and Limitations of Planning
1st Edition
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By Eran Feitelson
May 16, 2017
Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners. However, the question of what can planners contribute to the advancement of such notions has not received much attention until now. This volume examines the potential contribution of planning to the advancement of sustainability at ...
Plan-making for Sustainability: The New Zealand Experience
1st Edition
By Neil J. Ericksen, Philip R. Berke, Jennifer E. Dixon
May 16, 2017
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, ...
Renewing Urban Communities: Environment, Citizenship and Sustainability in Ireland
1st Edition
By Mark Scott, Niamh Moore
May 16, 2017
Ireland is now an urban society, and both parts of the island have experienced rapid urban-generated growth and new patterns of development in recent years. This inter-disciplinary book adopts an all-Ireland perspective to investigate the tension that exists between sustainable urban development ...