Sustainable Development Policy Directory
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Beschreibung
This Directory means that a whole range of built environmentprofessionals need never be caught out by the perversities ofpolicy - in its formulation or on its journey into the reallife of you and me. To have in one place the means of not onlyburrowing down into any one policy, but also of exploring theinterconnections is a precious resource for any professional -'sustainability literate' or not.
Today, nobody who delivers our built environment can beexcused from taking responsibility for the future. Armed with thisDirectory their contribution can only be made moreeffective.
Sara Parkin OBE
Forum for the Future
This desk-top reference on sustainable development providesessential information for all who need to be up-to-date andfamiliar with the implications of the legal, fiscal and planningframeworks around the global and local sustainability agenda. It isrelevant to a range of organisations and individuals - fromnational and local authorities, professional bodies, builtenvironment professions, academia, environmental consultancies,non-governmental organisations and others.
Carefully designed to facilitate access for a diverse range ofstakeholders, it covers international, European, British and localpolicies in key built environment themes, and develops theirinter-relationship to sustainable development.
The Directory addresses each theme in a series of tables whichsummarise the policy purpose and also provide web-links to view thespecific policy documents. The themes covered are:
· Biodiversity
· Climate Change
· Construction
· Energy
· Environment
· Planning
· Pollution
· Social Issues
· Sustainable Development Policy and Practice
· Transport
· Urban Development
· Waste Management
· Water
Other books of interest:
The Green Guide to Specification
Anderson
ISBN: 1405119616
Smart & Sustainable Built Environments
Yang
Hardback
ISBN: 1405124229
Sustainable Property Development
Keeping
Paperback
ISBN: 0632058048
Previously Developed Land
Syms
Paperback
1405106972
Evaluating Sustainable Development
Brandon
0632064862
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This Directory means that a whole range of built environmentprofessionals need never be caught out by the perversities ofpolicy - in its formulation or on its journey into the reallife of you and me. To have in one place the means of not onlyburrowing down into any one policy, but also of exploring theinterconnections is a precious resource for any professional -'sustainability literate' or not...
Today, nobody who delivers our built environment can beexcused from taking responsibility for the future. Armed with thisDirectory their contribution can only be made moreeffective.
Sara Parkin OBE, Forum for the Future
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