Constructions of Sustainability and Spatial Planning: the case of Dalton Flatts, Co. Durham, Planning Inquiry
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This paper explores the constructions of sustainability within a recent land-use planning event. The focus is upon the discursive processes employed by key actors and agents in constructing concepts of sustainability during a local planning inquiry of a retail and leisure development ‘called-in’ by the Secretary of State for the Environment. It reveals which discourses in particular were employed and discusses their implications. It concludes that sustainability is very much part of a wider political-economic game and that a high degree of social power lies with those actants who are able to utilise the appropriate discursive spaces and concepts. As a result of this the rhetoric of the concept of sustainability is generally not being played out within local level planning contexts. Introduction Sustainable development is a particularly popular, yet enigmatic, concept. It holds considerable public currency, advocating a wide variety of (in)actions towards the ‘environment’, ‘economic growth’ and numerous ‘other’ goals. It also has considerable global mobilisation. Yet it is rarely operationalised as a single coherent ideology (Adams, 1990). The concept lacks clear definition and, as such, is multi-faceted, multi-dimensional and highly contested (Redclift, 1992). Many international agencies, governments, multinational corporations, and so on, subscribe to the Brundtland Commission’s definition, which is outlined in the report ‘Our Common Future’, where sustainable development is seen as development that,
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تاریخ انتشار 2010