Treatment of the Environment in Regional Planning: A Stronger Line for Sustainable Development?
回顾了当前区域规划指导中环境政策的处理方式，聚焦生物多样性和水资源管理，发现区域发展政治影响政策形成，而利益相关者参与和公众审查有助于加强某些地区的环境政策。
In this article we review the treatment of the environment in the current round of Regional Planning Guidance(RPG), focusing upon policies for biodiversity and water management. Although different regions address these issues in different ways, with regional development politics setting the remit within which policies are initially formed, new arrangements for greater stakeholder involvement and public examinations can be seen to be having an important impact. Our analysis demonstrates how the RPG process has helped to strengthen environmental policies in some regions, like the North, whilst in others what were fairly strong approaches to the environment were questioned on the grounds of development.