Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities: Urban Planning, Environmental Health and Hygiene in the Netherlands(Urban Planning and Environment)

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 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 ensuring the impressive and groundbreaking Dutch creativity in environmental management. In conclusion, the book extrapolates current trends in environmental policy, expresses likely and possible developments in 'methods for environmental externalities' and shows how such methods can contribute in our ongoing attempts to develop and deliver liveable, pleasant and sustainable towns and cities.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface; 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 `good’ and the `bad’; 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.

About the Author :
Gert de Roo, Jelger Visser and Christian Zuidema, all at University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Review :
Richly illustrated with visual images and musical examples, this broad-based, fascinating and thoroughly researched study examines the ways in which the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III (r. 1637-1657) employed sacred music and other arts to project an image of himself as a champion of Catholic piety, a warrior for the Empire, and eventually as a peacemaker during the last stage of the Thirty Years' War.' Jeffrey Kurtzman, Washington University in St. Louis, USA'Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III is a unique exploration of the nexus between art and politics. Combining the tools of social and political history, virtuosic archival work, and deft musical analysis, Andrew Weaver shows how Ferdinand III used sacred music to propagate, and later, to revise a triumphant, martial public persona during the Thirty Years' War. His insightful work illuminates early modern sacred music, Catholic devotional practices, the history of printing, and - most significantly - the ways in which a world leader sought to shape his own public image.' Steven E. Saunders, Colby College, USA'Andrew H. Weaver's lucid, jargon-free and admirably interdisciplinary study places the much-maligned younger Ferdinand in a new light... a book that will quickly establish itself as essential reading for anyone concerned with 17th -century Austria... Altogether a delight, this book should appeal not only to specialists but to everyone with an interest in Catholic Church music of the period.' Early Music Review