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 planning that manages 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, such as climate action, nature recovery, energy transitions, food security, and water quality. The policy response to these complex challenges has too often been fragmented 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 effective approaches that can effectively meet the complex challenges currently facing rural planners globally and consider what an appraisal of the UK and Irish context might have for different planning systems across the world. This book is essential for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in planning, geography, rural studies, landscape studies, and regional studies.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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

Book Information
ISBN 9781032721545
Author Mark Scott
Format Paperback
Page Count 214
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd