This paper examines the complex issue of creating sustainable green systems and protecting biodiversity within the built environment.

Exploring the way in which the exercise of power by developers, stemming from superior money-based resources, distorts planning processes, this paper looks at how urban over-development can occur even when planning controls to limit development to levels acceptable to the community are in place.

This Paper focuses on over-clearing and subsequent degradation of the land as the major threats to biodiversity and agricultural productivity.