* A comparative analysis of strategic environmental assessment of land use planning in a wide range of OECD countries
* Contributions by a strong team of experts in their field
* Essential reading in this important and growing subject area for planners, local authorities, and students of planning, urban development, and geography.

Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. The thirteen chapters are all linked theoretically by advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).