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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrative Material -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Environmental Planning -- The importance of environmental planning -- The complexity of environmental planning -- Ascertaining environmental 'priorities' -- Conclusion -- 2 The Intellectual Legacies -- The history of environmental planning -- The Age of Discovery -- Towards modernity -- The history of environmental planning thought -- A sense of hierarchy -- The authority of empiricism -- The rise of human exemptionalism -- The power of economic systems -- Conclusion -- 3 Governance and Power -- From government to governance -- Evolving influences and relationships -- Changing modes and scales -- Power and legitimacy -- Conclusion -- 4 Politics and the Media -- Introducing environmental politics -- Environmental political ideologies -- The market and the private sector -- The media -- Conclusion -- 5 Framing Concepts -- The spectrum of environmental concern -- Sustainability -- Risk -- Resilience -- Conclusion -- 6 The Role of Science -- Accumulation and revolution -- Objective and subjective -- Certainty and doubt -- Experts and knowledge -- The science-policy interface -- Conclusion -- 7 Policy and Regulation -- Designation, protection and control -- Regulation -- Evidence-based planning -- The precautionary principle -- Policy 'transfer' -- Conclusion -- 8 Decision Support Tools -- Cost-benefit analysis and environmental economics -- Indicators -- Futures and scenarios -- Geographical Information Systems (GIS) -- Impact assessment -- Conclusion -- 9 Engaging with Stakeholders -- The rise of engagement -- The theoretical foundation -- The promise and the reality -- Engagement in practice -- Conclusion -- 10 The Question of Justice -- Conceptions of justice -- Justice and the environment -- Environmental racism -- Environmental justice.

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.

Introduction to environmental planning and management -- Sustainable manufacturing -- Environmentally conscious manufacturing -- The ISO 14000 model -- Environmental planning -- Life cycle assessment -- Design for the environment, part I -- Design for the environment, part II -- Manufacturing strategies: agile, lean and flow manufacturing -- Environmental risk assessment and management -- Competing on environmental management

A comprehensive overview and discussion of all major aspects of environmental planning and management, Professor Baldwin's textbook highlights the causes and interrelationships of environmental problems, emphasizing the important economic and ecological functions of the land as the stage for all human activities and the "source" and "sink" for all

This book discusses some of the methods that can be used to reduce and prevent environmental problems. In particular, it explores aspects of environmental impact assessment, land use planning, pollution and climate change, environmental education, environmental law and policy, environmental engineering, and environmental design. As such, the volume will be useful to anyone interested in solutions to today's turbulent environmental situation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Physical Development Planning in the Anglophone Caribbean: The Re-articulation of Formal State Power -- 3 'The Bad Old Days Look Better': Enlightened Colonial Land Management Practices and Land Reform in the British Windward Islands -- 4 Challenges to Promoting Agro-biodiversity in Caribbean Small Farming Systems: A Jamaican Case Study -- 5 Disaster Creation in the Caribbean and Planning, Policy and Participation Reconsidered