River basin management, development planning, and opportunities for debate around limits to growth

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Heather M.
dc.contributor.authorBlackstock, Kirsty Louise
dc.contributor.authorWall, Gill
dc.contributor.authorJeffrey, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-13T09:53:05Z
dc.date.available2019-11-13T09:53:05Z
dc.date.issued2014-04-18
dc.description.abstractSome of the latest global paradigms in sustainable water governance revolve around ideas of promoting greater integration within policy implementation processes that impact on land and water. The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), seen by many as a ‘Sustainability Directive’, reflects this trend, and places particular emphasis on building linkages between water management and land use planning. This paper presents the results of a research project that examined this integrative vision in a real world setting – the emerging relationship between the WFD’s river basin management planning (RBMP) framework and the development planning (DP) system in Scotland. The project’s approach draws from interpretive policy analysis, and the results are based on analyses of key policy documents, as well as in-depth interviews, primarily with land use planning staff from local authorities, as well as other relevant public agencies such as the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). The results show how an overarching political objective of ‘increasing sustainable economic growth’ is significantly affecting stakeholders’ understandings of the RBMP-DP relationship, as well as their own roles and responsibilities within that relationship. This has created barriers to the deliberation and potential operationalisation of environmental limits to growth in the built environment, which may be skewing decision-making processes in a way that undermines the RBMP framework and its objectives of protecting and improving the water environment.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationSmith HM, Blackstock KL, Wall G, Jeffrey P. (2014) River basin management, development planning, and opportunities for debate around limits to growth. Journal of Hydrology, Volume 519, Part C, November 2014, pp. 2624-2631en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0022-1694
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.022
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14718
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectRiver basin management planningen_UK
dc.subjectDevelopment planningen_UK
dc.subjectPolicy integrationen_UK
dc.subjectSustainable economic growthen_UK
dc.subjectPolicy framingen_UK
dc.titleRiver basin management, development planning, and opportunities for debate around limits to growthen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
River_basin_management_development_planning_and_opportunities-2014.pdf
Size:
191.92 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.63 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Staff publications (SWEE)