Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Boxes -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- 1. The Environmental Roles of Town and Country Planning -- 2. Town and Country Planning and Water Quality Planning -- 3. Planning and Air Pollution -- 4. Risk, Land Use Planning and Major Accident Hazards -- 5. Planning and Nature Conservation: Law in the Service of Biodiversity? -- 6. Derelict and Despoiled Land -- Problems and Potential -- 7. Environmental Assessment -- 8. Planning for Sustainable Waste Management.
9. Reconnecting Networks and Buildings: The Development Process and the Reshaping of Water, Energy and Transport Demands -- 10. The Environment and the Regions: A New Agenda for Regional Development -- 11. Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.
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This collection of essays examines the roles which land use planning can play in the protection of the environment. The subjects covered range from traditional concerns like pollution, nuisance and contaminated land to biodiversity and the pursuit of sustainable development, which forms the defining element of current environmental policy across the European Community and in most other developed economies. Environmental assessment is discussed, along with the succession of public law actions (Twyford Down included) by environmental activists which were necessary to convince the English courts o.
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