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Planners, plans and sustainable development
| Author: |
Healey, P.; Shaw, T. |
| Date: |
1993 |
| Periodical: |
Regional Studies |
| Abstract: |
The land use planning system uses regulatory power to contribute to the management of environmental change. It is thus central to the contemporary environmental policy agenda. Several dimensions of the agenda have a long history in the planning system. Yet there is much which is new, both with respect to specific issues and to conceptions. The system therefore faces a major challenge in incorporating the new agenda, with respect to competences, institutional capacity and the competences of planners. This paper reviews this challenge, focusing specifically on the development plan. Its core argument is that failure to meet the challenge will lead to the marginalizing of the planning system as a locus for achieving environmental objectives. Such an outcome would be both a cost to the environmental agenda itself, since it is critical that environmental objectives are interlinked with economic and social objectives. It would also reduce the opportunity for democratic leverage on environmental policy agendas, given the importance of the planning system as an arena for public involvement in policy formulation and implementation. |
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