'.it is particularly rare to find a cohesive and coherent text on planning for sustainability.as a result Land and Limitswill be a useful text for a wide audience'- Anna R. Davies, Environmental Values. 'For its measured and scholarly style, its robust dismissal of humbug and rhetoric, and its detailed engagement with a series of controversial environmental issues in the UK, the book deserves to be read widely by academics and practitioners alike' - Richard Munton, Land Use Policy, 2002 'Everyone who teaches planners should read this book' - Yvonne Rydin,International Planning Studies, 2003 'InLand and Limits.[the authorsTRONG>.[the authors].have answered academic demands for a cogently argued and thoroughly sourced text that explores the relationships between sustainable development and planning'- Tony Jackson,Town Planning Review 2003 'Susan Owens and Richard Cowell have given us an unflinchingly ambitious study of the politics, pitfalls and promises of "sustainability" not as a popular mantra but as a real, contested, deeply ambiguous and yet inspiring policy objective.

' -John Forester, Cornell University.