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Book SynopsisIn 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 development of some innovative practical instruments for aiding sustainable environmental spatial policy. This book discusses these new ''methods for environmental externalities'' and their significance in the development and delivery of Dutch environmental policies, particularly how they ensure that issues such as health and hygiene are introduced in the early stages of spatial planning processes. This book highlights the most prominent and relevant of these innovative ''methods for environmental externalities'' as well as comparing them with some of the classic methods, and analysing strengths and weaknesses. It argues that having such a broad and varied choice of methods is the key to
Table of ContentsPreface; Smart methods: methods in a changing environmental policy climate; Part A Context and Conditions: Developments in environmental policy: standards, remediation, politics and integrated environmental management; Diversity uncovered: a comparative framework for methods for environmental externalities; Methods in different shapes and sizes: variation for coping with varying circumstances. Part B Methods and Tools: Environmental zoning approaches: separating the a "gooda (TM) and the a "bada (TM); Checklist methods: between quantity and quality; Quality perspectives: towards tailor-made area-specific solutions; 'Zip' methods:integrating by doing; Information methods: showing is knowing; Other methods: outside the box. Part C Relations and Reflections: The methods in relation to each other: going beyond descriptions; Reflection: what does it all mean?; Bibliography; Index.
