RP06. RURAL SOIL RESOURCES
(updated: March 1, 2006 )

• Detailed Topic Index / Main Planning bibliographies Index
• For relevant addresses, telephone/fax numbers, email & website addresses see
  PLANNING & PLANNING RELATED ORGANISATIONS
  
  See also the Countryside Planning index, Structure Planning / Local planning / and in particular:-
• Agric. / AONBs / Archaeology / Coastal plg. / Commons & village greens / Community forests /
  Comparative rural plg. / C'side management & conservation / C'side plg. (gen.) / C'side stewardship /
  Fish farming / Gypsy/traveller sites / Historic parks & gardens / Horse-riding / Landscape /
  National Parks / National Trust / Pond conservation /
  Recreation & leisure plg. / Redundant military bases / Rights of way / River valleys & flooding /
  Rural Challenge / Rural design / Rural emplt., diversification & regen. / Rural hsg. /
  Rural pressure groups / Rural settlements / Rural services / Rural social exclusion / Rural strategies /
  Rural sustainability / Rural tourism / Rural transp. /
  Telecommunications masts / Trees, forestry & woodlands / Urban fringe / Wind farms
• and also:
• Central gov (& plg.) / Local gov (& plg.) in the Central & Local Gov context for planning bib'y
• Coal mining, Minerals, Waste management in the Minerals & Waste Planning bibliography
• the Effectiveness of Planning & Planning Control bibliography
• Green Belts in the Green Belts etc. bibliography
• Soil & land resources & management in the Sustainable Development bibliography
• N.B. also the RTPI library catalogue on the web - go to http://www.rtpi.org.uk - then to library search.

OFL = Ordered for Library - please check University Library catalogue for latest on availability:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/
* indicates more up to date and/or useful references

Atkinson, Ken, 1993, 'The Geography of renewable resources', Edward Arnold, Cheltenham, Goucestershire

Boardman, G. & Evans, R., 1995, 'Down to Earth', (soil preservation) CPRE, London.

Boardman, John, 1990, 'Soil erosion in Britain; costs, attitudes and policies,' Brighton Polytechnic (now University of Brighton) Countryside Research Unit,/.

Cloke, Paul & Park, Chris C., 1985, 'Rural resource management', Croom Holm.
Cloke, Paul, 1988, 'Rural resource management: a geographical perspective', Routledge, London.

Cornforth, I.S., 1999, 'Selecting indicators for assessing sustainable land management', Journal of Environmental Management, July pp173-179.

*Cornwell, Sue, 2000, 'Landscape artistry' (reviving the rural economy and the Countryside Agency's Land Management Initiative (LMI)), (Forum for the Future) Green Futures 21, March/April.

Countryside Commission (merged with the Rural Development Commission on 1 April 1999 to form the Countryside Agency) publications available from Countryside Agency/Commission Postal Sales, PO Box 124, Walgrave, Northampton NN6 9TL, tel. (01604) 781848, 'The water industry in the countryside', CCP 239, 1988

Department of the Environment (DOE) (former; from June 1997 to June 2001
part of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions; DETR):
'Reclamation of damaged land for nature conservation', HMSO, May 1996.
'Sustainable use of soil: Government response to the 19th Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution', DOE, January 1997. Documents Division CM3165.

English Nature publications available from EN Enquiries Services, Northminster House, Peterborough PE1 1UA,
tel. (01733) 455100, fax. (01733) 455103, email: enquiries@english-nature.org.uk or from Telelink,
PO Box 100, Fareham PO15 2SX, tel. (01329) 331300, email: reception@telelink.co.uk:
- see also Annual Reports, 1991-
'The effects of horse and cattle grazing on English species rich grasslands', 1996.
'Grazing in upland woods: managing the impacts', 1996. ISBN 1 95716 254 4.
'Horses, grasslands and nature conservation', (produced in conjunction with the British Horse Society, Kenilworth), 1997. ISBN 1 85716 216 7
'Grazing in upland woods: managing the impacts', 1997.

Farmer, A. 1996, 'Reducing the impact of air pollution on the natural environment', Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Monkstone House, City Road, Peterborough PE1 1JY.

Friends of the Earth, 1996, 'Soil erosion and its impact in England and Wales', FOE, London.

Gardiner, K., 1994, 'Planning for Sustainable Development: The Water Dimension', Planning Week 26 (2), 13.1.94.

Haslam, S.M, 1992, 'River Pollution: An Ecological Perspective', Pinter.

Holliday, John, 1992, 'Managing natural resources,' Town and Country Planning, September.

House of Commons Environment Committee, 1996, 'Water Conservation and Supply', HMSO.

Land Use Consultants, 1996, 'Reclamation of Damaged Land for Nature Conservation', HMSO, May.

Lewis, Laurence A., & Johnson, Douglas L., 1995, 'Land Degradation', Blackwell, Oxford.

Mather, A.S & Chapman, K, 1995, 'Environmental Resources', Longman Higher Education, Harlow, Essex.

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), available from
MAFF Publications, tel. (0645) 556000, London SE99 7TP
- website: http://www.maff.gov.uk
NB: MAFF replaced in June 2001 by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
1980s:
'Agricultural Land Classification of England and Wales: revised guidelines and criteria for grading the quality of agricultural land', 1988
'Environmental aspects of support for hill-farming', 1991.
'The Control of Pollution (Silage, Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil) Regulations 1991: Guidance notes for farmers', 1991.
'Code of Good Agricultural Practice on the Protection of Water', 1991.
'Code of Good Agricultural Practice on the Protection of Air', 1992.
'Code of Good Agricultural Practice on the Protection of Soil', 1993.

*Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP), 1996, '19th Report: The Sustainable Use of Soil', HMSO.

Selman, Paul, 1992?, 'Environmental Planning; the Conservation and Development of Biophysical Resources,' Paul Chapman Publishing, London.

Stapleton, Chris, 1996, 'The Quality of Agricultural Land and Sustainable Development', (Ambit Publicsations) Report for the Natural and Built Environment, Issue 15, April.

The Countryside Agency, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, tel. (01242) 533273:
- website: http://www.countryside.gov.uk
*'A Strategy for Sustainable Land Management in England', CA 64, tel. (01242) 533273, July 2001.
'Review of state of the countryside indicators', Working Paper CAX 60, 2001, £2.00'

• Index to the Countryside Planning bibliographies
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• Main Planning bibliographies Index