Space for action: How practitioners influence environmental assessment

Conceptualizing impact assessment as a learning process

“…The simple transfer of knowledge that often characterizes the proponent-consultant relationship (Kågström and Richardson, 2015;Gallardo et al, 2016) is not intrinsically conducive to learning. Failures to learn include capacity differences among various actors in development projects and an institutional inability to ensure knowledge is adequately retained and shared.…”

Understanding Urban Land Governance through “action space”: Implications for access to land for low-income housing in managing informal settlements

“…Foxon (2013) applied the concept in explaining the pattern of governance amongst actors in the government, the market, and the civil society. Kågström and Richardson (2015) used the concept within the context of environmental impact assessments (EIA) to explain the 'potential', 'actual' and 'interpretative' spaces for action on the part of practitioners. Similarly, the concept has been used to explain the pattern of governance and the legitimacy existing between government and civil society actors (Shrestha et al, 2016b), and between market and civil society actors .…”

“…In order to understand the interaction among actors as well as the overarching governance pattern, various authors have applied the concept of "action space" in their studies (Foxon, 2013;Shrestha et al, 2016a). Similarly, Kågström et al (2015) have conceptualized the space of action to understand the practitioners' "potential spaces for action", "actual spaces for action" and "interpretative spaces for action" while conducting Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Following Foxon (2013), this paper uses "action space" as a lens to understand the governance pattern and conceptualize it in the access to and allocation of land for low-income groups in order to manage informal settlements.…”

“Action Space” Based Urban Land Governance Pattern: Implication in Managing Informal Settlements from the Perspective of Low-Income Housing

“…In order to understand the interaction among actors as well as the overarching governance pattern, various authors have applied the concept of "action space" in their studies [7,8]. Similarly, Kågström and Richardson [22] have conceptualized the space of action to understand the practitioners' "potential spaces for action", "actual spaces for action" and "interpretative spaces for action" while conducting Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Following Foxon [8], this paper uses "action space" as a lens to understand the governance pattern and conceptualize it in the access to and allocation of land for low-income groups in order to manage informal settlements.…”