Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theorise on the nature of property management broadly understood as resource management and demonstrate the actual and potential contribution of innovative property management to sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is...

Purpose – This paper sets out to explore the concepts involved in sustainability by investigating the basic meanings of the terms, the primary principles involved and their application to practices of development. Design/methodology/approach – A perspective founded in natural science is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe conventional top‐down planning as applied to land markets – and its limitations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper includes a brief survey of recent literature that sheds light on the argument and that puts property management into...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the intellectual pre‐conditions for meaningful debate about resource management of the sea and its contents. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is historical and theoretical. Findings – The argument contends that because of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a hypothesis for evaluating the potential contribution of planning conditions to protect the environment by reducing environmental complaints (ECs) in an institutional context of growing communicative planning and interpret the results of an...