Robert J. Mason 
Collaborative Land Use Management 
The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning

Collaborative Land Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning discusses the less-regulatory approaches to land use management that have emerged over the past 35 years, analyzing the collective value of such place-based planning approaches as land trusts, open-space ballot measures, watershed conservancies, ecoregional plans, and smart-growth initiatives. Collaborative Land Use Management appraises these trends from physical, social, economic, civic, and environmental justice perspectives. Mason seeks to answer such questions as: What are the environmental justice implications of smart-growth efforts? How is the property-rights movement affecting collaborative planning? What is the significance of newly created planning regions? What do these approaches mean in the larger context of the future of the American landscape? How do we begin to evaluate and assess these efforts?Robert Mason pulls together a wide array of land-use planning initiatives into a synthetic and critical story. Incorporating many insightful case studies, Collaborative Land-Use Management is intended for planners, practitioners, policy-makers, geographers, and students with interests in environment and landscape.