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The marine environment is one of our most precious yet fragile
natural resources. It provides a wide range of essential goods and
services, including food, regulation of climate and nutrient
cycling, as well as a setting for transport, recreation and
tourism. This environment is however extremely complex and very
sensitive to development pressures and other forms of human
influence. Planning and management of the sea are similarly
complicated, reflecting intricate legal, institutional and
ownerships patterns. This creates a situation where marine
ecosystems are vulnerable to over-exploitation or neglect. The
Ecosystem Approach to Marine Planning and Management describes how
growing concern about the state of our seas is resulting in the
development of new approaches to marine planning and management.
For example, the United Nations Environment Programme has called
for the widespread introduction of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP),
and the European Union has recently been consulting on a new
European Maritime Policy designed to stimulate economic growth but
at the same time protect the resource base. Within the United
Kingdom, the 2010 Marine Act draws upon the experience of town and
country planning and brings into being a new system of Marine
Spatial Planning. The authors show that a common feature of all
these developments is an appreciation that more integrated forms of
planning and management are required for our seas and that new
arrangements must draw together understanding from natural science,
social science and many other perspectives. Adopting such a
trans-disciplinary and holistic (or 'ecosystems') approach, the
book distils the expertise of these different disciplines and seeks
to promote a broader understanding of the origins and
practicalities of new approaches to marine planning and management.
Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and
Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges
facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community
action shape rural spaces. The second edition provides an
examination of the composite nature of 'rural planning', which
combines land-use and spatial planning elements with community
action, countryside management and the projects and programmes of
national and supra-national agencies and organisations. It also
offers a broad analysis of entrepreneurial social action as a
shaper of rural outcomes, with particular coverage of the localism
agenda and Neighbourhood Planning in England. With a focus on
accessibility and rural transport provision, this book examines the
governance arrangements needed to deliver integrated solutions
spanning urban and rural places. Through an examination of the
ecosystem approach to environmental planning, it links the
procurement of ecosystem services to the global challenges of
habitat degradation and loss, climate change and resource scarcity
and management. A valuable resource for students of planning, rural
development and rural geography, Introduction to Rural Planning
aims to make sense of current rural challenges and planning
approaches, evaluating the currency of the 'rural' label in the
context of global urbanisation, arguing that rural spaces are
relational spaces characterised by critical production and
consumption tensions.
Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and
Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges
facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community
action shape rural spaces. The second edition provides an
examination of the composite nature of 'rural planning', which
combines land-use and spatial planning elements with community
action, countryside management and the projects and programmes of
national and supra-national agencies and organisations. It also
offers a broad analysis of entrepreneurial social action as a
shaper of rural outcomes, with particular coverage of the localism
agenda and Neighbourhood Planning in England. With a focus on
accessibility and rural transport provision, this book examines the
governance arrangements needed to deliver integrated solutions
spanning urban and rural places. Through an examination of the
ecosystem approach to environmental planning, it links the
procurement of ecosystem services to the global challenges of
habitat degradation and loss, climate change and resource scarcity
and management. A valuable resource for students of planning, rural
development and rural geography, Introduction to Rural Planning
aims to make sense of current rural challenges and planning
approaches, evaluating the currency of the 'rural' label in the
context of global urbanisation, arguing that rural spaces are
relational spaces characterised by critical production and
consumption tensions.
The marine environment is one of our most precious yet fragile
natural resources. It provides a wide range of essential goods and
services, including food, regulation of climate and nutrient
cycling, as well as a setting for transport, recreation and
tourism. This environment is however extremely complex and very
sensitive to development pressures and other forms of human
influence. Planning and management of the sea are similarly
complicated, reflecting intricate legal, institutional and
ownerships patterns. This creates a situation where marine
ecosystems are vulnerable to over-exploitation or neglect. The
Ecosystem Approach to Marine Planning and Management describes how
growing concern about the state of our seas is resulting in the
development of new approaches to marine planning and management.
For example, the United Nations Environment Programme has called
for the widespread introduction of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP),
and the European Union has recently been consulting on a new
European Maritime Policy designed to stimulate economic growth but
at the same time protect the resource base. Within the United
Kingdom, the 2010 Marine Act draws upon the experience of town and
country planning and brings into being a new system of Marine
Spatial Planning. The authors show that a common feature of all
these developments is an appreciation that more integrated forms of
planning and management are required for our seas and that new
arrangements must draw together understanding from natural science,
social science and many other perspectives. Adopting such a
trans-disciplinary and holistic (or 'ecosystems') approach, the
book distils the expertise of these different disciplines and seeks
to promote a broader understanding of the origins and
practicalities of new approaches to marine planning and management.
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