Conflict, Consensus, and Rationality in Environmental Planning - An Institutional Discourse Approach

Klappentext How does the way that those involved in policy planning talk affect environmental planning? Can negotiation be turned into consensus-building and deliberation? How do planners legitimate their activities through discourse, and what are the prospects of a rationality of sustainable development? Using a new institutionalist, theoretical framework, Yvonne Rydin tackles these key questions. Zusammenfassung How does the way that those involved in policy planning talk affect environmental planning? Can negotiation be turned into consensus-building and deliberation? How do planners legitimate their activities through discourse, and what are the prospects of a rationality of sustainable development? Using a new institutionalist, theoretical framework, Yvonne Rydin tackles these key questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Environmental Planning: Introducing the Discourse Approach 2: Discourse and Environmental Planning 3: Discourses, Communication, and Discursive Strategies within Institutions 4: Conflict and Consensus in Environmental Planning 5: Rationalizing the Environmental Policy Process 6: Discourses of Environmental Rationality: Three Rationalities 7: Air Pollution Control and Air Quality Management 8: Housing Land Policy 9: Local Agenda 21 10: The Prospects for a Sustainable Development Rationality Appendix

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• Authors: Dr. Yvonne Rydin, Yvonne Rydin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780199255191
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925519-1
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series; Oxford Geographical and Enviro; Oxford Geographical and Enviro; Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works