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A text which focuses on the relationship of local politicians and professional planners in the planning process, adopting a conceptual framework within which a series of case studies is analysed. It shows that where power is limited or diffuse, or liable to change, policy making can be uncertain or inconsistent. The book covers a wide range of planning policy, including transportation and land development and because the author has had both academic and political experience this gives his work a unique emphasis.

In the development function a strong central state allied to a free market has enabled primacy to be given to the promotion of private sector development. Compromise has been characteristic of the conservation function with the tension between farming and rural preservationists and a shift from food production to the problem of surplus. Transboundary pollution and EEC environmental directives have constrained the Government's freedom of action in the ecological function of policy. Environmental policy shows a mixture of transformation and pragmatism. (Abstract amended)

1. Nuclear oases : the presistence of the periphery -- 2. Hanford, USA : an enduring legacy -- 3. Sellafield, UK : a paradox of power -- 4. La Hague and Bure, France : the traditional and the modern -- 5. Gorleben, Germany : the power of resistance -- 6. Conclusion.

The radical behaviorist Zing-Yang Kuo's other career reveals a figure who moved in the circles of senior university administrators and significant political figures. When he left China for Hong Kong after World War II (WWII), he did no more scientific research but embarked on an autobiography and a study of Chinese national character. A chance renewal of his acquaintance with Leonard Carmichael led to the simultaneous publication of several articles based on work done in the 1930s, and thereby to the revival of Kuo's scientific reputation. However, Kuo preferred to pursue his national character studies-his only post-WWII funded work. The author argues that it was the failure of Kuo's ambitions in China that led to both his interest in national character and to the revival of his scientific reputation, which might otherwise have lain dormant. © 2001 Educational Publishing Foundation. ; postprint