CONTENTS Tables vii Foreword by John Forester viii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction to the second edition 1 1.Old conflicts and new ideas 19 Introduction 19 Land, environment and sustainability 22 The remit of land-use planning 24 Planning in the UK 26 An outline 27 2.Rhetoric, policy and practice: sustainable development as a planning issue 29 Introduction 29 Sustainable development: the need for planning 30 A new rationale for planning? 37 Rhetoric and reality 38 Where next? 41 3.Interpreting sustainability 43 Introduction 43 Environmental capital: a metaphor? 45 Ethics 47 Politics 53 Planning as a dialogical forum 56 Conclusions 59 4.Defining and defending: approaches to planning for sustainability 61 Introduction 61 An analytical arms race 63 Engaging 'the public'? 70 Integration: the elusive goal 76 Concluding comments 81 5.Moving targets: planning for an integrated transport policy 84 Introduction 84 Transport, land use and sustainability: retraining the connections 87 A role for land-use planning? 90 Towards sustainability? 99 The new realism: planning in context 102 Conclusions 108 6.Planning for biodiversity: ethics, policies and practice 110 introduction 110 Conservation, land and planning 112 Nature as 'environmental capital' 116 In defence of nature 119 Interpreting protection 121 Progress and prospects 128 7.Distributing development; sustainability and equity in minerals planning 131 introduction 131 Sustainability, uneven development and non-renewable resources 133 Minerals planning in the UK: supply and sustainability 135 Place, power and spatial scale 140 Scales of justice 148 Conclusions 157 8.Conclusions and reflections 161 Introduction 161 An active interface 162 Making a difference ? 163 After sustainability 167 Notes 171 Bibliography 201 Index 239