Books written by Susan Owens
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Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process
Weidner, H. and Jänicke, M. (eds) (2002) Capacity Building in National Environmental Policy, Berlin: Springer. ... Wiggins, D. (1999) 'Nature, respect for nature and the human scale of values', presidential address, 11 October, ...
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Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process
in P. Wagner, C. Weiss, B. Wittrock and H. Wollman (eds), Social Sciences and Modern States. ... Wiggins, D. (1999) 'Nature, respect for nature and the human scale of values', pres— idential address, 11 October, Proceedings of the ...
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Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers & The British Landscape
When, having left Scotland in October without finishing the picture, Millais eventually proposed travelling to Capel Curig in Wales to work from similar rocks, Ruskin strongly objected on the grounds that their geological formation was ...
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Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
Velvet rose ( Rosa gallica ) , unidentified rose ( Rosa sp . ) , flaxleaf pimpernel ( Anagallis monelli ) , damask rose ( Rosa damascena ) , water forget - me - not ( Myosotis scorpioides ) and Austrian copper rose ( Rosa foetida ) ...
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Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process
Pearce, D.(1988) 'Economics, equity and sustainable development', Futures 20,6:598–605. —— (1993) Blueprint 3: Measuring Sustainable Development, London: Earthscan. Pearce, D. and Markandya, ...
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Green Taxes: A Budget Memorandum
Publication of the ' Pearce Report in the summer of 1989 gave added momentum to this trend ( Pearce et al , 1989 ) , and a recent OECD ' report ( Opschoor and Vos , 1989 ) suggests three reasons for looking again at economic instruments ...
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Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise: The UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1970-2011
Holdgate (2003: 173) records that Greenwood, prompted by Kennet, had written to Harold Wilson in November 1968 to suggest the establishment of a committee or commission to review arrangements for controlling pollution.
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Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise: The UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
... Tom Blundell) was of the view that it would be good for the Commission, and would eventually become necessary, to hold oral evidence sessions in public. But other members 'regarded such sessions as part of the process of forming the ...
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Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art
The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets.
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Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
Spirit of Place offers a panoramic view of the British landscape as seen through the eyes of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain-poet to Gainsborough, Austen, W. G. Sebald and Barbara Hepworth.
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The Ghost: A Cultural History
In this broad cultural history, Susan Owens reveals what these spirits and apparitions can tell us about our culture and about ourselves, and explores how ghosts have inhabited a wide range of roles from medieval times to the present day.
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The Ghost: A Cultural History
"In this rich survey Susan Owens explores the wide range of roles that ghosts have played in Britain's cultural life, looking at how they reflect our changing attitudes, our hopes and fears.
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Rocks and hard places: mineral resource planning and planning sustainability
Rocks and hard places: mineral resource planning and planning sustainability
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Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
Describes the methods by which selected European artists, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Mark Catesby, portrayed the natural world during the Age of Discovery.
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Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2020 When we look at the landscape, what do we see?
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Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
... Past: Place-Names and the History of England (London, 1978) — Place-Names in the Landscape (London, 1984) Gibson, Marion, Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History Since the Dark Ages (Oxford, 2013) Girouard ...