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The Greenest Government Ever? Planning and Sustainability in England after the May 2010 Elections

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This paper assesses how reforms being introduced in England by the May 2010 Coalition government may affect the capacity of the planning system to promote sustainability. Although moves towards decentralization may allow more innovative local responses to environmental challenges than seemed likely under New Labour, they raise dilemmas of coordination, capacity and accountability for wider, international environmental goals. In certain key respects, the implications of the Coalition's proposals for sustainability and planning echo those of preceding Labour governments. Neither allows planning a major role in more reflexive forms of governance, through which localized challenges to plans and projects can be connected to wider, overarching policy change. Both have sought to increase the emphasis on economic growth in their conception of sustainability.

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  • Richard Cowell, 2013. "The Greenest Government Ever? Planning and Sustainability in England after the May 2010 Elections," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1), pages 27-44, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:28:y:2013:i:1:p:27-44
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2012.694299
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    1. Christopher Groves & Max Munday & Natalia Yakovleva, 2013. "Fighting the Pipe: Neoliberal Governance and Barriers to Effective Community Participation in Energy Infrastructure Planning," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 31(2), pages 340-356, April.
    2. Richard Cowell & Mick Lennon, 2014. "The Utilisation of Environmental Knowledge in Land-Use Planning: Drawing Lessons for an Ecosystem Services Approach," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 32(2), pages 263-282, April.
    3. Adel Saleh Bouregh, 2022. "A Conceptual Framework of Public Participation Utilization for Sustainable Urban Planning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-18, September.
    4. Will Eadson, 2016. "State enrolment and energy-carbon transitions: Syndromic experimentation and atomisation in England," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(8), pages 1612-1631, December.

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