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Countryside planning : new approaches to management and conservation / edited by Kevin Bishop and Adrian Phillips.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regional planning.
- Regional planning--Environmental aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2004.
- Summary:
- * Major and comprehensive new volume on countryside planning and management * Edited and with contributions by the leading authorities in the field * Essential reading on the future of the countryside for all professionals, organizations, teachers and students The "drivers" of countryside management and conservation are increasingly international and European. They aim to provide comprehensive new frameworks for the whole countryside, and community-driven planning and protection. This book examines the impact and effectiveness of these approaches, their integration and practical value, drawing on a range of highly relevant case studies. The result is a volume that provides a fully up-to-date review and analysis of the pressures on the countryside, the policies for the future, and the keys to successful implementation.
- Contents:
- 1 Then and Now: Planning for Countryside Conservation / Kevin Bishop, Adrian Phillips 1
- Defining countryside conservation and planning 2
- Then: a lasting legacy 3
- Now: a new era? 6
- An outline 9
- Part 1 The International Context for Countryside Planning and Management
- 2 From Sandy to Rio: The Development of Biodiversity Action Planning / Kevin Bishop, Richard Cowell 19
- The road to Rio 20
- The road from Rio 24
- Re-framing the agenda 28
- 3 European Frameworks for Nature Conservation: The Case of the Birds and Habitats Directives / Dave Burges 37
- The birds and habitats directives 37
- Delivery mechanisms 42
- Impact on the British planning system and wider countryside policy frameworks 44
- The changing context 45
- 4 Our Landscape from a Wider Perspective / Adrian Phillips, Roger Clarke 49
- Landscape
- an elusive concept for international policy 49
- Cultural landscapes and the world heritage convention 54
- Protected landscapes 55
- European landscape convention 58
- Recent developments in the European Union 61
- The implications for the UK 62
- 5 Policy Context for Community Involvement in Countryside Planning / Diane Warburton 68
- Global and European drivers towards sustainable development, human rights and environmental policy 71
- The UK response 73
- Part 2 New Concepts and Tools
- 6 The Natural Area Experience / Keith Porter 91
- New solutions to old problems 91
- New needs and drivers 94
- Developing the framework 96
- Natural areas in practice 100
- 7 The Assessment of Countryside and Landscape Character in England: An Overview / Carys Swanwick 109
- The evolution of countryside and landscape character assessment 110
- Making judgments based on countryside and landscape character 116
- Practical applications of landscape character assessment 120
- Current and future issues 122
- 8 Policies and Priorities for Ireland's Landscapes / Michael Starrett 125
- The heritage council 125
- The first steps 126
- The pilot landscape characterization
- County Clare 129
- 9 Development and Application of Landscape Assessment Guidelines in Ireland: Case Studies using Forestry and Wind Farm Developments / Art McCormack, Tomas O'Leary 141
- Irish landscape assessment guidelines 142
- Case study 1 Landscape assessment in the planning and design of forestry 146
- Case study 2 Landscape assessment in the planning and design of wind farms 150
- 10 Historic Landscape Characterization / Lesley Macinnes 155
- Historic landscape characterization 156
- The application of HLC 163
- 11 Connecting the Pieces: Scotland's Integrated Approach to the Natural Heritage / Roger Crofts 170
- The overall philosophy 171
- Basic structure of approach 173
- What are the benefits
- actual and expected? 177
- 12 LANDMAP: A Tool to Aid Sustainable Development / Rob Owen, David Eagar 188
- Organizational change 188
- How the method was developed 190
- The LANDMAP method 191
- Where next
- towards sustainability? 198
- Part 3 From Theory to Practice
- 13 Applications of Landscape Character Assessment / Julie Martin 203
- Range of applications 203
- Character assessment and planning 205
- Character assessment and land management 214
- Character assessment and other strategic initiatives 216
- Towards good practice 219
- 14 The Link Between Landscape, Biodiversity and Development Plans: A Move Towards 'Positive Planning'? / Kevin Bishop, Richard Bate 222
- The policy context for positive planning 222
- Research method 224
- Development of Regulation 37 policies 224
- Policies promoting/enhancing biodiversity 231
- Implementing positive planning policies 233
- 15 A New Way of Valuing Land in the Countryside: Are We Lost Without a Map? / Jo Milling 237
- Links to the statutory land use planning system 238
- Effectiveness of the new approaches 239
- Community involvement 246
- 16 Community Involvement in Countryside Planning in Practice / Diane Warburton 250
- Frameworks for analysing levels of community involvement 251
- Examples of community involvement in countryside planning 253
- Overall strands and themes 264.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 184407059X
- 1853838497
- OCLC:
- 52386420
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