Abstract
Planning, because it is an applied field, is marked by two kinds of history: its development through literature and its development in practice. This review will emphasize the development of ecological planning literature, but examples from practice will be provided where particularly relevant—especially those that emerge from or are related to the classical writings and/or are of landmark significance. Literature and practice do overlap of course, but they do not necessarily coincide; many suggestions in the literature never reach practice and many practitioners do not publish their work. The existence of an impressive literature on ecological planning does not mean ecology is emphasized to an equal measure in practice.
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Steiner, F., Young, G., Zube, E. (2014). Ecological Planning: Retrospect and Prospect. In: Ndubisi, F.O. (eds) The Ecological Design and Planning Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-491-8_9
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