Ecological Rationality in Spatial Planning: Concepts and Tools for Sustainable Land-Use Decisions

Chapter 1. Standing on the shoulders of giants - reviving ecological approaches in planning traditions.- Chapter 2. The concept of Ecological Rationality and its application to spatial planning.- Chapter 3. Bridging the gaps: connecting Spatial Planning with Land Use Science and Political Ecology.- Chapter 4. Towards a conceptual framework for ecological rationality in spatial planning.- Chapter 5. A closer look to processes of territorial transformations in Europe: urbanisation, agricultural intensification and land abandonment.- Chapter 6. Policies and regulatory frames in the EU and the needed link with spatial planning.- Chapter 7. Conclusions and ways forward: five propositions for bringing back ecological rationality in spatial planning.