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1.The Nature of Planning --2.Defining the Environmental Approach --3.Making Plans --4.Natural Factors in Environmental Planning --5.Landscape Inventory and Analysis --6.Natural Hazard Assessment --7.Environmental Modeling and Simulation --8.The Decision Support Perspective --9.Ethics, Conflict, and Environmental Planning --10.The Impact of Change.

First published in 1990.

"The book sets out the economic justification for land use planning as well as describing methods of assessing planning proposals and controls. It then presents a thorough analysis of the economic effects of the system and its 'political economy', looking at why planning takes the form it does." "Economics and Land Use Planning results from the 30 years of research, teaching and debate by the author. He writes in a crisp and clear style, simplifying the arguments without any loss of academic rigour. This analysis will be valuable to students and researchers in real estate, land management, planning and urban economics."--Jacket

"This book is a core text for all students in environmental assessment, land use planning, environmental science, environmental management, development studies, geography, landscape design and law and engineering. It is also essential reading for all governments and environmental regulators, academics, researchers and environmental and planning consultants worldwide who are involved in SEA research, practice and training."--Jacket.

Focusing on the pressures of urban development, this study explains how planners and policy-makers can achieve a sustainable environment. The author examines the nature of environmental planning and the main areas where changes must be made, such as energy, pollution and waste control.

Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions to which the interdisciplinary concept of the global city can help to tackle the policy challenges of today's metropolises. Its chapters are drawn from viewpoints including the cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political dimensions of global cities. Tasked with providing a rejoinder to the global city scholarship from each of these perspectives, the authors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing these stances to the concept of the 'global city'. They rely not solely on theory but also on sample case studies either drawn from long-lived global cities such as New York, Shanghai and London, or emerging metropolises like Dubai, Cape Town and Sydney.