KEEPING BROWNFIELD GREEN

摘要

It's enough to give you sleepless nights: just as you reach the drawing board for a new brownfield development, you discover that the site holds populations of rare bugs. Once you've got over the immediate incomprehension - rare bugs?'. - an upstart ecologist informs you that recent government planning policy on conserving wildlife requires you to adapt your development to accommodate them. Hang on a minute, isn't government policy also encouraging the lion's share of development onto brownfield sites? Welcome to the brownfield conundrum.