In the bioregion boundary, which is usually a watershed, I utilize Odum's landscape classification of natural, cultivated and fabricated ecosystems. The difference is that the system envisioned would have people on the land finding consensus and working with professionals in society. And with labour as the common denominator to the three cultures, a universal differential of incomes has appeal. It is my experience, having served on commissions and committees for integrated resource management and community planning, that the BIG environ blockage is vested interests in land. Land speculators are passively powerful as stakeholders and actively powerful exploiting self-interest in land which overrides or undermines most other considerations and almost all planning.
Planning is primarily for controlling growth for an orderly society of stakeholders.
The idea of paying principle without interest has common sense appeal for just distribution. Rather than a private resource, he argued that all land be regarded as part of community and all rental value be pubic revenue. The more I look at George the more his ideas tie in with ecosystem planning. It'd end a lot of land liquidation and totally eliminate speculation in land. Soddy's Ball of Gold.