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Networks, Agency and (De)stabilization: The Issue of Navigation on the River Wye, UK

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  • Gavin Parker
  • Amanda Wragg

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This paper assesses the way in which an actor network presiding over the management of the River Wye has stabilized through accepting a particular view on the issue of navigation. The paper provides an account of how the network was challenged by a dissonant actor who, through reviving an old company, developed a counter network. It is argued that network stabilization is a form of consensus-building and it is contended that the way in which an issue is defined is crucial in terms of the successful enrolment of actors. The paper illustrates some of the conflicts and complexities encountered in resource planning, suggesting that research of this nature should trace actors back through time as well as through space if dynamics between actors involved in rural planning and management are to be effectively understood.

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  • Gavin Parker & Amanda Wragg, 1999. "Networks, Agency and (De)stabilization: The Issue of Navigation on the River Wye, UK," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(4), pages 471-487.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:42:y:1999:i:4:p:471-487
    DOI: 10.1080/09640569911019
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    1. Gustavo Guzman & Mariana Mayumi P De Souza, 2018. "Shifting modes of governing municipal waste – A sociology of translation approach," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 50(4), pages 922-938, June.

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