Rural Planning Futures: Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland (1) (RTPI Library Series)

By: Mark Scott

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Synopsis: Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic future practice that mediates rural change towards more resilient and sustainable outcomes. Rural places and planning have, for too long, been viewed as marginal to both the theory and practice of planning. However, rural places are central to addressing critical global challenges – from climate action, through nature recovery, energy transitions, and food security, to water quality – while also facing more localised conflicts around housing, the siting of infrastructure, and the challenge of sustaining local services. The policy response to these complex challenges has too often been fragmented, siloed, and fixated on the short-term. By illustrating how key 'rural capitals' are linked and integrated, this book argues for a reset of the rural planning narrative and for the urgent disruption of established ways of working. Using innovative case studies, the chapters detail how planning for rural places must be guided by the pursuit of social value rather than protecting private interests. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in planning, geography, rural studies, landscape studies, and regional studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 214 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040337585
Related ISBNs:: 9781040337516, 9781003423164, 9781032729459, 9781032721545
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/09/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Mark Scott, John Sturzaker, Nick Gallent, Gavin Parker, Amy Burnett and Ian Mell
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Mark Scott
Edited by:: John Sturzaker
Edited by:: Nick Gallent
Edited by:: Gavin Parker
Edited by:: Amy Burnett
Edited by:: Ian Mell