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Picking up speed: public participation and local sustainability plan implementation

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Although planning scholars often argue that public participation improves implementation outcomes, this relationship is rarely empirically tested. This study investigates how public engagement, during planning and after plan adoption, impacts on the speed of local government sustainability plan implementation. It includes a correlation analysis of quantized in-depth interviews with sustainability planners in 36 American cities. The study finds that individual characteristics of public engagement, both during planning and after plan adoption, had statistically significant relationships to implementation speed, but in some cases this relationship was negative. The correlations imply that sustainability planners can make strategic choices to improve implementation speed through public participation in plan creation and after plan adoption. Alternatively, planners also make choices during participatory planning that slow implementation, a problematic outcome when the ultimate goal of a planning process is on-the-ground change.

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  • Kirsten Kinzer, 2018. "Picking up speed: public participation and local sustainability plan implementation," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(9), pages 1594-1611, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:61:y:2018:i:9:p:1594-1611
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2017.1358154
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