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Labour's Planning Reform: A View from London

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the English planning reform agenda of the Labour government elected in 2024. It frames London's outer boroughs as a critical lens through which to assess it. Drawing on the findings of the cross‐party Suburban Taskforce (2020–2022), the article has particular regard to the proposed reconfiguration of planning committees ...
Dimitrios Panayotopoulos‐Tsiros, Jonathan Manns, Lucy Natarajan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon, Agnieszka Leszczynski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Acceptance Optimization of Biomass Plants: a Fuzzy Cognitive Map and Evolutionary Algorithm Application

Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2014
Implementation of biomass plants is often thwarted by public opposition, despite potential technical- economic and normative feasibility. This opposition is generally known as NIMBY effect.
S. Sacchelli
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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson, Asya Magazinnik, Melissa Sands   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is small beautiful? A multicriteria assessment of small-scale energy technology applications in local governments [PDF]

, 2007
In its 2003 White Paper the UK government set ambitious renewable energy targets. Local governments and households have an increasing role in the overall energy system as consumers, suppliers of smaller-scale applications and citizens discussing energy ...
Agnolucci, Arnstein, Backstrand, Bana e Costa, Bana e Costa, Brans, Cavallaro, Correlje, Del Rio, Diakoulaki, Fiorino, Funtowicz, Gamboa, Gross, Hain, Haung, Hobbs, Hunter, Jonathan Burton, Klaus Hubacek, Mirasgedis, Mitchell, Munda, Munksgaard, O’Connor, O’Neill, Reams, Roy, Saaty, Sims, Smith, Stagl, Warren, Wolsink, Wolsink, Wolsink, Wüstenhagen, Zahedi   +37 more
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Can Technological and Customer Competencies Enable the Firm to Be Greener? Simultaneous Consideration of Resource‐Based View and Social License to Operate

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the contribution of firm competencies and green management practices to enhancing a firm's sustainable performance. It examines the effects of technological competencies (TC) and customer competencies (CC) through the lens of a competence‐based view (CBV) framework, particularly focusing on their influence on green ...
Tongkyu Kim, Hyeonyu Son, Yu Ri Kim, Jiyeon Han, Yunze Cho, Taewoo Roh   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Getting past NIMBY: new insights on participatory planning and protest

Planning Practice & Research
Local resistance to proposed developments can be divisive, costly in time and delays, and damage reputations. We use typologies of process sheriff and enlightened resistance to explore community opposition to a proposed beachfront development in South ...
Anna McKinlay, Claudia Baldwin, J. Hamerlinck   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dialogue of the Deaf: How Deliberation With Discontented Citizens May Hopelessly Fail

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments employ public deliberation in response to citizen discontent, intending to achieve consensus, mutual understanding, and clarification. However, some studies suggest that deliberation can devolve into a “dialogue of the deaf,” where parties talk past each other, counterproductively leading to conflict, distrust, and confusion ...
Anouk van Twist
wiley   +1 more source

City versus Countryside: Environmental Equity in Context [PDF]

, 1994
This Article takes an approach to the problem of environmental equity that is different from the remedies advocated by the leaders of the environmental equity movement.
Tarlock, A. Dan
core   +3 more sources

Siting prisons, sighting communities: geographies of objection in a planning process [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reviews the planning process for a Scottish prison located near a former mining village. Analysing the letters of objection submitted by residents offers an opportunity to explore local views about prison and community and to relate these to ...
Apthorpe R, Barry J, Clifford J, Davis A, Flyvberg B, Frisby D, Good A, Hartland R, Legg CJ, Redwood, Reed A, Shore C, Simmel G, Smith H, Stone D, West Lothian Council   +15 more
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