From the beginnings of human association, social planning has been an accepted method for effecting improvements in community, regional, and national life. In Law and Economy in Planning, Walter Firey has made a start in the development of an intellectual framework that will give meaning to the craft of planning and establish a relationship between practice and first principles. In this study he investigates basic elements of this framework existing in two normative orders: the state, in which a collectivity has the obligation to enforce obedience; and the market, in which the individual has the right to be rational. These normative orders, whose laws are formulated in the disciplines of jurisprudence and economics, have a common concern with the utilization of scarce means to given ends. These orders, the state and the market, are formulated by the art of planning and have a common relationship to the natural order, which cannot be planned, but only predicted, and which is explained by the science of planning. To bridge the gap between the natural order and the normative order is the function of a philosophy of planning, for which an intellectual framework—of necessity interdisciplinary—is essential. This study is the culmination of several years of research in the fields of planning and social theory. During the course of this research Firey came to appreciate more and more keenly the need for an interdisciplinary formulation of the planning process and, with this, the need for a philosophical foundation for interdisciplinary work. A year’s fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford gave him the opportunity to develop his ideas bearing on this subject and to put them in writing.

Law and Economy in Planning

Politics & Social Sciences

Firey, Walter

Social Sciences

University of Texas Press

<p>The theory of development, use, conservation, social impact, etc., of natural resources is presented.</p>

Man, Mind, and Land: A Theory of Resource Use

Business & Money

Economics

Praeger

"Man, Mind, and Land" is the first major comprehensive treatise of society, culture and the transformation of natural resources. "Man, Mind and Land" represents a classic foundation text for students of natural resource social science. The interpretation of the social with the biophysical world to understand human adaptation to the natural resource environment begins here. Firey clearly outlines the interplay of society and culture, first to shaping the land and second how sociey rsponds to the limits of the natural world around us.

Man, Mind and Land

Dog-Eared Publications (Subsidiary:Social Ecology Press)

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