Meaning Making in Planning

Theorising ‘Policy Entitlement’ in the Emergence of Green Infrastructure Planning in Ireland

Mick Lennon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

146 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-53583-8 (ISBN)

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Planning theorists normally focus on issues of contest and critique. The field of planning theory is thereby replete with studies of conflict, collaboration and criticism. Considerably less critical attention is afforded to policy approaches that emerge, evolve and are widely adopted in the apparent absence of discord. This book addresses this knowledge gap.

A case study of the emergence of green infrastructure policy in Ireland is used to both inform and illustrate a theory of ‘Policy Entitlement’. This interpretive approach focuses on meaning making in context to explain the counter-intuitive processes through which a new policy concept can emerge and reprofile planning activities by producing the seemingly pre-existing objective reality to which such policy is then applied and the discipline (re)orientated. This approach accounts for how a new planning concept can appear to resolve problematic policy ambiguity by suspending disagreement on issues where dispute could be expected.

This book will be of interest to those studying planning theory and the policy process, as well as those concerned with the undertheorized but swift rise to prominence of green infrastructure planning.

Mick Lennon is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. His work focuses on the intersections between planning and environmental policy, with a particular emphasis on using novel theoretical approaches to cultivate resilience in the context of social and environmental transitions. Mick was a practicing town planner for several years prior to entering academia. He is author of Planning for the Common Good published by Routledge in 2022.

Introduction

Chapter 1 Interpreting Policy Discourses

Chapter 2 Case Study Summary

Chapter 3 Narrative Production

Chapter 4 Naming Attributes & Effects

Chapter 5 Rationality Resonance

Chapter 6 Narrative Modality

Chapter 7 Policy Entitlement

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-032-53583-0 / 1032535830
ISBN-13	978-1-032-53583-8 / 9781032535838
Zustand	Neuware