
Rural Planning Futures
Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. April 2025
Book
Hardback
196 pages
978-1-032-72945-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Rural Planning Futures sets out the conflicting demands on the countryside very clearly and proposes a more strategic approach to planning for the future of rural communities. The authors propose tools to tackle our most pressing challenges, targeting rural futures that will deliver planetary benefits."Lord Matthew Taylor of Goss Moor
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
19 s/w Abbildungen, 14 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 5 s/w Zeichnungen, 17 s/w Tabellen
17 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
493 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-72945-9 (9781032729459)
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Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland
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Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland
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Persons
Mark Scott is Professor of Planning and Dean in the School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
John Sturzaker is the Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire.
Nick Gallent is a professor of housing and planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.
Gavin Parker is Professor of Planning Studies in the Department of Real Estate and Planning at the University of Reading, UK.
Amy Burnett is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR) at Middlesex University's (MDX) Business School.
Ian Mell is Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning at the University of Manchester.
John Sturzaker is the Ebenezer Howard Professor of Planning at the University of Hertfordshire.
Nick Gallent is a professor of housing and planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.
Gavin Parker is Professor of Planning Studies in the Department of Real Estate and Planning at the University of Reading, UK.
Amy Burnett is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR) at Middlesex University's (MDX) Business School.
Ian Mell is Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning at the University of Manchester.
Editor
University College Dublin, Ireland.
University of Liverpool, UK
University College London, United Kingdom
Content
1. Introduction: towards rural planning for the future 2. Rural planning policy and governance 3. Planning for societal challenges and rural capital 4. The 'built rural' - housing, renewable energy, and critical service infrastructures 5. The 'economic rural' - supporting recovery and regeneration 6. The 'land-based rural': land, landscape and ecosystems 7. The 'social and cultural rural': people and rural place leadership 8. Planning - engaging relational capitals and supporting the 'good countryside' 9. Conclusion - Planning for Rural Futures