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Discourse Yes, Implementation Maybe: An Immobility and Paralysis of Sustainable Development Policy
- Source :
- European Planning Studies, 22(9), 1824-1840. Routledge (2014).
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2013.
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Abstract
- Sustainable development policies are on the move. Cities the world over are reposition-ing, repackaging and remarketing themselves as green and sustainable, and sustainable development is the moniker imported to spark the process. At the same time, sustainable development, as a normative point of departure, is itself going through cycles of reinterpretation and re-composition. The research in this paper aims to understand this process by mapping the trajectories of sustainable development policies, and understanding sustainable development as a contextually grounded policy in motion. In Luxembourg, as planners are confronted with finding ways to manage growth, sustainable development has come to permeate all levels of the planning system. To understand how this came into being, research methods were employed that include document screening and a series of conversational interviews that were later transcribed and coded. In so doing, the discourse around sustainable development policy could be reconstructed and analysed. The results showed that the multi-scalar, cross-national, and simultaneously micro-level governance structures pose many obstructions to the implementation of sustainable development policies that are imported from abroad. Thus, policy is ultimately immobile, and a policy paralysis can be spoken of.
- Subjects :
- Sustainable development
Reinterpretation
Economic growth
Process (engineering)
Corporate governance
Geography, Planning and Development
Urban studies
policy mobility
Public administration
Geographie humaine & démographie [H05] [Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie]
Motion (physics)
governance
SPARK (programming language)
urban studies
Normative
Human geography & demography [H05] [Social & behavioral sciences, psychology]
Sociology
computer
computer.programming_language
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14695944 and 09654313
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Planning Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....be2d7e59b84a73ca53a3940650acdabc