An evaluation of environmental plans quality: Addressing the rational and communicative perspectives

Schools of urban and regional planning evaluation: A genealogical perspective

“…After criticizing the substantive planning in the 1960s and 1970s and its decline in the 1980s, it again became important as a central theme in evaluation with the rise of urban form theories and sustainable development. These themes include the natural hazards reduction assessment (Berke, Philip R. and French, 1994;Dalton and Burby, 1994), coastal management (Berke, P. R., Dixon et al, 1997;Norton, 2005Norton, , 2008, climate changes (Guyadeen, 2018;Tang, Brody et al, 2010), resilience (Berke, Philip R., Malecha et al, 2019), and other interesting issues in the environmental planning (Hossu, Iojă et al, 2020). This thematic approach also expanded the theoretical literature on evaluation, even though similar mechanisms are used for judgment, evaluating each requires data on the same subject.…”

Evaluating the Strength of Local Legislative Frameworks to Protect Farmland: City of Richmond and Metro Vancouver, British Columbia

“…The coding protocol for measuring the strength of policy focus is premised on the following four principles: maximize the stability of policy focus, integrate public priorities across jurisdictions, minimize uncertainty that undermines the policy intent, and accommodate flexibility without contributing unnecessarily to uncertainty (Connell 2020; Connell and Daoust-Filiatrault 2018). Although each area of plan quality evaluation has important differences and can be assessed separately (e.g., Hossu et al 2020), they all use plans as objects of study and employ methods of content analysis.…”

The role of the environmental subsystem in sustainable urban development: Evidence from megacities in China

“…The first is to evaluate environmental performance, capacity, and efficiency through indicator systems [ 4 , [11] , [12] , [13] ]. The second is to assess sustainability-beneficial management tools, such as environmental building certifications [ 14 ], environmental permits [ 15 ], green infrastructure [ 16 ], urban green space [ 17 ], government plans and actions [ 18 ], environmental regulation [ 19 ]. The third is to examine the relationships between urban development elements and environmental development, such as the relationship between urban development and pollution [ 7 ], the delinking of environmental performance and economic development [ 20 ], the relationship between economic growth and pollution emissions [ 21 ], the relationship between ecological footprint and urban development [ 5 ], the relationship between atmospheric environmental quality and urban industrial structure adjustment [ 22 ], and the relationship between population density and air pollution [ 23 , 24 ].…”