Sustainable local land use policy: rhetoric and reality

Gelan, Ayele; Shannon, Peter

doi:10.1080/13549830701803331

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“…Our St. Andrews case study reveals how ideas related to pragmatism and governance are shaping planning practices, and demonstrates how the focus of planning practice is shifting from the general to the particular, as well as from the unpredictable to the certain. This lends support to the argument that green belts, the policies they embody and the discourses they attract (Gelan et al, 2008), are best interpreted as manifestations of a pragmatic approach to planning theory, seeking to reconcile spatially conditioned and spatially contingent pressures on land use. Green belt practice demonstrates the realities of the modern planning system in a developed market economy, seeking to mediate between the fissiparous pressures being brought to bear on the statutory planning system.…”

Section: Global Framework and Local Concernsmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…Stimulated by North Sea oil and gas developments, Aberdeen enjoys some of the highest levels of productivity, earnings and house prices in the UK (Jackson, 2009). Despite the designation of a green belt in 1957 and its subsequent reinforcement in the 1980s, Gelan et al (2008) reveal that its impact on urban sprawl has been of limited effect. Over the period of their analysis, substantial conversion of farmland has taken place outside the belt, and much of the development contained within the belt has been at the expense of vacant land and green space rather than derelict brownfield sites.…”

Section: Deepak Gopinath and Tony Jacksonmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Gelan et al (2008) have applied geographical information system analysis to track the changes in land use around Aberdeen in the period 1988 -2003. Stimulated by North Sea oil and gas developments, Aberdeen enjoys some of the highest levels of productivity, earnings and house prices in the UK (Jackson, 2009).…”

Section: Deepak Gopinath and Tony Jacksonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Pragmatist Lens on Local Planning Practices: The Case of the St. Andrews Community-driven Green Belt

Gopinath¹,

Jackson²

2010

Planning Practice & Research

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Green belts test the capacity of the planning system to reconcile competing demands on the sustainable use of land. In 2002, in response to strong community pressure and against the wishes of the planning authority, the Scottish Executive approved a green belt around St. Andrews. This has yet to be designated, reflecting the challenges facing the local planning authority. The paper examines the St. Andrews case through a pragmatist framework to assess whether this instrument of governance can be effectively reconciled with community-led initiatives for protecting the environment.

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A Pragmatist Lens on Local Planning Practices: The Case of the St. Andrews Community-driven Green Belt

Gopinath¹,

Jackson²

2010

Planning Practice & Research

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“…Renewable energy research continued to face technical challenges associated with costs including storing the excess electricity generated during sunlight hours and while the wind was blowing. Domestic offshore oil rigs take years to bring online and will not cure the Chinese oil addiction or will lower the gasoline price [2,3]. The focus of the study was on the selection appropriateness of domestic renewable energies for the automobile industry.…”

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Relationship between Energy Consumption Structure and Environmental Pollution

Yang

et al. 2013

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Energy and environment in our economic and social sustainable development is two important issues. Consumption of non-renewable fuels may harm the environment. Domestic alternative renewable energy has been at the top of many discussions to solve the increasingly high gasoline prices in China. Renewable energy is an important energy resource which meets China's energy demand, improve energy structure, and reduce environmental pollution. In this paper, China's energy production, use and consumption of energy generated in the process environment, and an analysis of energy consumption for these problems of structural defects, and China for such practices have been, or are exploring the energy and environment policy review and outlook, presented a scientific operational countermeasures.

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“…This has to do with the fact that if words of promise or intent lack entrenchment in action they become reduced to the role of verbal embellishment, which, in turn, may undermine trust, a basic element of democracy (in Europe, the problem of disparity between policy rhetoric and practice has been observed in a wide variety of areas; cf. Ribeiro, Marques, 2002;Gelan et al, 2008;Peckham et al, 2012;Stenseke, 2012;Bernt et al, 2014).…”

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Quality of life in rural areas: A topic for the Rural Development policy?

Brauer

Dymitrow

2014

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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abstract. Contemporary transformations of rural areas involve changes in land uses, economic perspectives, connectivity, livelihoods, but also in lifestyles, whereupon a traditional view of 'the rural' and, consequently, of 'rural development' no longer holds. Accordingly, EU's 2007-2013 Rural Development policy (RDP) is one framework to incorporate aspects labelled as quality of life (QOL) alongside traditional rural tenets. With a new rendition of the RDP underway, this paper scopes the content and extent of the expired RDP regarding its incorporation of QOL, in order to better identify considerations for future policy making. Using novel methodology called topic modelling, a series of latent semantic structures within the RDP could be unravelled and re-interpreted via a dual categorization system based on RDP's own view on QOL, and on definitions provided by independent research. Corroborated by other audits, the findings indicate a thematic overemphasis on agriculture, with the focus on QOL being largely insignificant. Such results point to a rationale different than the assumed one, at the same time reinforcing an outdated view of rurality in the face of the ostensibly fundamental turn towards viewing rural areas in a wider, more humanistic, perspective. This unexpected issue of underrepresentation is next addressed through three possible drivers: conceptual (lingering productionist view of the rural), ideological (capitalist prerogative preventing non-pecuniary values from entering policy) and material (institutional lock-ins incapable of accommodating significant deviations from an agricultural focus). The paper ends with a critical discussion and some reflections on the broader concept of rurality.

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Sustainable local land use policy: rhetoric and reality

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

A Pragmatist Lens on Local Planning Practices: The Case of the St. Andrews Community-driven Green Belt

A Pragmatist Lens on Local Planning Practices: The Case of the St. Andrews Community-driven Green Belt

Relationship between Energy Consumption Structure and Environmental Pollution

Quality of life in rural areas: A topic for the Rural Development policy?

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