ABSTRACT

This chapter provides an overview of the development, role and limits of environmental planning. It highlights the changing scope, connectivity and complexity of the discipline, emphasising the need to appreciate that it is more than a series of statutory or non-statutory tools that may manage land and resources. A key message is that understanding the context within which environmental planning operates is crucial, as such it positions the field in a challenging interdisciplinary space that links land and resources, people and places, and politics and power.