Green infrastructure offers a contemporary approach to the conceptualisation and management of landscape resources and has developed rapidly in the UK, Europe and North America. As a result it has been proposed as meeting a number of the ecological, economic and social challenges of spatial planning. The attention given to the growth of green infrastructure has been supported by the development of a number of overarching principles-principles that provide green infrastructure research with a multi-layered understanding of the changing nature of landscape resources. The themes developed...
Green infrastructure offers a contemporary approach to the conceptualisation and management of landscape resources and has developed rapidly in the UK...
Most of us have heard of green belts but how much do we really know about them? This book tries to separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to green belts by looking both backwards and forwards. They were introduced in the mid-twentieth century to try and stop cities merging together as they grew. There is little doubt they have been very effective at doing that, but at what cost? Are green belts still the answer to today s problems of an increasing population and ever higher demands on our natural resources?
Green Belts: Past; present; future? reflects upon green...
Most of us have heard of green belts but how much do we really know about them? This book tries to separate the fact from the fiction when it comes...
