Urban Development and the Role of Strategic Environmental Policy Planning: Experiences with the First Generation of Plans in The Netherlands

Many municipalities all over the world have adopted environmental declarations, strategies and action plans. A general term for these plans that address environmental problems is 'green plans' or 'environmental (policy) plans'. The relation between local physical, land-use or spatial planning and these forms of environmental or green planning varies from system to system. In some countries the planning functions are combined while in other countries they are quit separate (Sustainable cities project, 1994).