Strategic Planning for Water

ISBN-13: 9780415425384 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 192 str.

Howes Hugh

Opis

In these guidelines, the experienced town planner Hugh Howes assesses the challenge of managing water sustainably within the current planning system and in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive. The book offers authoritative, up to date and practical guidance on how statutory town and country planning can help us to use water more wisely. Water has historically been regarded as a rare 'free' resource and as such was an essential ingredient of public health, hygiene and well being. Today, however, water resources are under threat by both a rapidly deteriorating and ageing infrastructure, and global ecological changes which require different local, regional and national planning responses. In this context, planners are now expected to understand and help to implement key water management policies within an increasingly broad-ranging strategic remit. T

Spis treści

Introduction: A Changing Culture for Managing Water  1. A Favourable Climate for Integrating Water Management and Planning  2. The Path to Sustainable Water Management  3. Regional Planning: A Better Environment in London and the South East  4. Promoting the Effective Use of Water  5. River Basin Management Plans  6. Managing River Basins: Two Case Studies  7. Promoting Prosperity through a Better Water Environment  8. Alleviating Poverty and Social Exclusion through a Better Water Environment  9. An Environment for Prosperity and Quality Living.  Appendix

O autorze

Hugh Howes, a Chartered Town Planner, is the Strategic Planning Policy Advisor on the Water Framework Directive for the Environment Agency.