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Falling through the cracks: Limits to an instrumental rational role for environmental information in planning

Hills, Sarah

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Abstract

This paper explores the potential for environmental information to play an instrumental rational role in planning through an empirical investigation of regional planning processes in the German federal state of Brandenburg. The findings show that environmental information is used in only a limited number of policy issues and processes and that where it plays a role in choice making, its function is procedural rather than instrumental. The author concludes that the influence of the regulatory framework on the decisionmaking jurisdiction of regional planning and the disappearance of environmental information in decisions of great economic importance are key constraints on a rational instrumental role for environmental information.

Citation

Hills, S. (2005). Falling through the cracks: Limits to an instrumental rational role for environmental information in planning. Environment and Planning A, 37(7), 1263-1276. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3740

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jul 1, 2005
Journal Environment and Planning A
Print ISSN 0308-518X
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 37
Issue 7
Pages 1263-1276
DOI https://doi.org/10.1068/a3740
Keywords rational role, environmental information, planning
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1052949
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3740