1st Edition
Planning Law and Environmental Limits A New Legal Architecture for Emissions
By Naomi Luhde-Thompson
Copyright 2026
202 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the role of planning law in balancing the dilemma of resource extraction with the recognition of greenhouse gas emission limits.
Naomi Luhde-Thompson explores how planning law, which is one of the strongest forms of environmental regulation in the UK, has failed to incorporate environmental limits into decisions. Environmental limits are broadly understood as the point at... Read more
Foreword
List of Abbreviations
1. Death by a thousand cuts: climate mitigation in planning law
2. The limits of authority: how competence shapes outcomes for fossil fuel extraction and climate change
3. Mitigation's paradox: how competing priorities create counterproductive climate action
4. Recognising limits through procedural and substantive environmental rights
5. Divided content: the emergence of asymmetries in environmental decision-making
6. Achieving integrity in a new legal planning architecture for environmental limits
Biography
Naomi Luhde-Thompson is a senior lecturer in sustainable futures at Oxford Brookes University’s School of the Built Environment, UK.
