Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface: perspectives on an emerging field

Abstract

This paper describes the growing recognition amongst development professionals and institutions that rural and urban features tend increasingly to co-exist within cities and beyond their limits, and that the urban-rural dichotomy that is deeply ingrained in planning systems is inadequate for dealing with processes of environmental and developmental change in this peri-urban context. The paper outlines approaches to environmental planning and management in the peri-urban interface, examining its specificity both in terms of the challenges faced and possible approaches for implementation. Envirnoment and Urbanization is available online via Ingenta Select, please see the Download link. A web-based database with details of all papers ever published in Environment and Urbanization is available at http://eandu.poptel.org.uk/