The very successful Natural and Built Environment (NBE) series encompasses environmental planning and management in its widest sense. This includes: environmental assessment; planning and management; development planning and control; planning processes and methods; resource planning; housing; transport; design environmental quality and conservation; tourism and leisure planning; and other related areas. The series provides core texts for the upper years of undergraduate programmes, and postgraduate programmes, in a wide array of subject areas, including planning, built environment, environmental sciences/studies, geography, and other social and political/management sciences. The texts are also designed to be of value to a wide range of practitioners, and to have an international scope of content and relevance.