Gert De Roo: 7 books
Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement
Practicable Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning and environmental quality management has been widely adopted by governments worldwide. Fully revised and updated with a new preface by editors Donald...
Environmental Planning in the Netherlands: Too Good to be True
From Command-and-Control Planning to Shared Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Netherlands is one of the most prominent and innovative countries in the field of environmental planning. Over the past decade, its government has introduced such ground-breaking schemes as Integrated Environmental Zoning, the City-Environment Project, the Bubble Concept and Policy Concepts and...
Fuzzy Planning
The Role of Actors in a Fuzzy Governance Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Many of the key notions associated with spatial planning are essentially ’fuzzy’ in their nature. For example, while almost everyone accepts ’sustainability’ as an important goal of planning, the actions of the actors involved can render the achieved ’sustainability’ minimal, or even counterproductive....
by Gert de Roo, Elisabete A. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change,...
Urban Environmental Planning
Policies, Instruments and Methods in an International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. Fully revised and updated, this second edition brings together a team...
Complexity and Planning
Systems, Assemblages and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the...
Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities
Urban Planning, Environmental Health and Hygiene in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In recent years, Dutch environmental policy has undergone some pivotal changes, the most significant of which have been decentralization and deregulation, encouraging local communities to develop and deliver policies which are tailor-made to their particular situation. These changes have led to the...