1st Edition
Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities Urban Planning, Environmental Health and Hygiene in the Netherlands
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years, Dutch environmental policy has undergone some pivotal changes, the most significant of which have been decentralization and deregulation, encouraging local communities to develop and deliver policies which are tailor-made to their particular situation. These changes have led to the development of some innovative practical instruments for aiding sustainable environmental spatial... Read more
Preface; Smart methods: methods in a changing environmental policy climate; Part A Context and Conditions: Developments in environmental policy: standards, remediation, politics and integrated environmental management; Diversity uncovered: a comparative framework for methods for environmental externalities; Methods in different shapes and sizes: variation for coping with varying circumstances. Part B Methods and Tools: Environmental zoning approaches: separating the a "gooda (TM) and the a "bada (TM); Checklist methods: between quantity and quality; Quality perspectives: towards tailor-made area-specific solutions; 'Zip' methods:integrating by doing; Information methods: showing is knowing; Other methods: outside the box. Part C Relations and Reflections: The methods in relation to each other: going beyond descriptions; Reflection: what does it all mean?; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Gert de Roo, Jelger Visser and Christian Zuidema, all at University of Groningen, The Netherlands
