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{"title":"Is non-zoning of land impossible? Eight fundamental propositions of zoning","authors":"L. Lai, S. Davies","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2098096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2098096","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay explains that by virtue of having its boundary delineated, each parcel of land thus defined (or, more technically, zoned) acquires a unique boundary rendering it a discretely differentiated good. Zoning is about enclosing otherwise common resources with clear boundaries, both land and sea, to constrain rent dissipation, and enable betterment and conservation. By referring to parallels in maritime zoning according to international law and treaties, the discussion frees bundling zoning with U.S. zoning law vocabulary and explores the implications of the generic meaning of zoning as boundary delineation. Zoning is the primeval form of town and country planning. It can be imposed by state command or adopted by mutual agreement between government and individuals, conferring or attenuating rights and/or stipulating obligations. The actual effect of zoning is a case-by-case empirical matter. Zoning has a significant informational dimension and is a form of production, leaving a very rigid physical geographical outcome. Dezoning in the sense of depriving land property of its boundaries is generically impossible: once zoned (and thus created), a plot or parcel cannot be uncreated, just changed.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"49 1","pages":"242 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90545561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating energy infrastructure through the low carbon challenge: technologies, governance and socio-spatial effects","authors":"R. Cowell, Carla De Laurentis","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2084054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2084054","url":null,"abstract":"In its 2022 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reiterated the increasingly severe, interconnected and often irreversible impacts of climate change, emphasising the urgency of immediate action, with particular focus on the rapid transformation of energy infrastructure (IPCC, 2022). Such calls for new, expanded and environmentally sustainable energy infrastructure exemplify what Bridge et al. labelled as our contemporary ‘infrastructural moment’ (Bridge et al., 2018, p. 9). Political, economic and environmental voices have exhorted the considerable scale of the infrastructural investment required, with climate emergency narratives intertwining with earlier positioning of infrastructure spending as a response to the 2008 financial crises (Feindt & Cowell, 2010) and, more recently, to the coronavirus pandemic (Johnson, 2020). Rhetorics of speed, scale and necessity inform policy discourses dominated – at least in national and corporate arenas – by delivery. Yet, transitioning to a net zero-emissions energy system is a hugely complex task requiring a holistic appraisal of how energy is generated, transferred and utilised across all forms of infrastructure. The importance of examining and better understanding infrastructures, their obduracy, renewal and change, across the globe, has never been more acute. It is estimated that around 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions stem from infrastructure (Crouch, 2021). What is more, infrastructure has to be resilient to the climate change that is already happening and still to come. This ‘infrastructural moment’ has produced much interest across the social sciences, keen to grasp how energy infrastructure co-evolves with socio-economic institutions, actors and social norms (Calvert, 2016). Such perspectives are vital, since infrastructure is not just an entity to be delivered, or an ‘asset class’ to be packaged neatly for economic gain. Infrastructural systems deeply infuse patterns of production and consumption; they require governance and simultaneously configure how governing might be undertaken; and infrastructure provides an analytical window – an ontology – through which societal struggles to achieve energy transitions can be observed and appraised (Sovacool et al., 2020). Several broad themes have attracted the attention of researchers. The first centres on issues of technology and technology choice. Debate about the respective merits of ‘centralized’ versus ‘decentralized’ energy pathways are well established (Lovins, 1977), and analysts have escaped these dualistic oppositions to engage with the myriad hybrid permutations of scalar form. However, disputes about the merits of alternative future technological pathways for energy decarbonisation play out in the context of extant infrastructural systems. Infrastructures, and their constitutive networks of actors, facilities and institutions, are both the subject and battleground of future technological choices. Consequently, new challen","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"35 1","pages":"367 - 374"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91162997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"It’s not all about the money—landowner motivation and high voltage grid development","authors":"Mark Koelman, T. Hartmann, T. Spit","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2093175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2093175","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The transition to a renewable energy future requires the extensive expansion of current high voltage grids. Due to the amount of land needed for expansion, issues related to land use have led to increased grid development opposition among landowners which in turn leads to significant project planning and budget overruns. Yet knowledge about why landowners support or object to high voltage grid development is limited. In this study, we use a theory on pluralism to uncover and categorize the multiplicity of motivations of 200 individual landowners in the Netherlands. Our results indicate that only a small number of landowners who oppose grid development focus on individual monetary gain through compensation for limits on their land use. Furthermore, most landowners find the fair and equal distribution of both the advantages and disadvantages of such limits more important than individual financial compensation. As such, overcoming contentious land use issues related to high voltage grid development by way of high individual financial compensation isn’t the only solution. Highlights Land use conflicts affect expansions of high voltage grids crucial for meeting CO2 objectives Motivations of landowners are unevenly divided among different rationalities Most individual landowners do support high voltage grid developments Individual financial compensation isn’t the only solution","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"8 1","pages":"211 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73860113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance","authors":"J. M. Smallwood, I. Delabre, S. Pinheiro Vergara, P. Rowhani","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2082931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2082931","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Continued conversion of tropical forests to agriculture risks jeopardising planetary integrity. The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets to halt deforestation by 2020, alongside other global measures for zero deforestation, were not achieved. Applying a governmentality lens, we aim to better understand global governance mechanisms for tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and identify opportunities to improve them post 2020. We rely on data from global measures, institutions, and interviews with public and private actors working on tropical forest and food policy to undertake a discourse analysis of the (i) SDGs and other global measures on forests and food systems, (ii) contexts of the institutions studied, and (iii) implementation of global measures relating to forests and sustainable food systems. Our analysis reveals six discursive themes: (1) Policy framing of tropical forests – a token effort (2) Deceptive interlinkages, (3) Participation of the usual suspects, (4) Insufficient stakeholder representation, (5) Cleaning up supply chains and, (6) A green recovery. The themes show how the promotion and reproduction of neoliberal values of tropical forests consistently inhibit conservation, negatively impacting on planetary integrity. We identify opportunities to shift towards a new governmentality for informing international efforts on tackling tropical deforestation post-2020.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"8 1","pages":"103 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88530009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A convenient untruth: environmental water reallocation and the art of ambiguous arrangements in south-east France","authors":"Martin Laurenceau, F. Molle","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2084603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2084603","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Europe, improvements in water-use efficiency have been encouraged in order to achieve the Water Framework Directive’s environmental goals. However, it is often unclear where the saved water (if any) goes and to what extent it benefits aquatic ecosystems. While the technical aspects of this question have been widely debated, its political dimensions have seldom been addressed. In particular, few studies have examined the formulation, implementation or governance of policy tools aimed at reallocating ‘saved water’ to the environment. In the Durance River Basin (south-east France), a Water Saving Account (WSA) was created to facilitate the reallocation of water savings to aquatic ecosystems. Combining the political sociology of policy instruments and historical neo-institutionalist approaches, we show that, rather than fundamentally reordering water distribution, the WSA constitutes an ambiguous arrangement that favours the continuation of water savings investments – a policy that is compatible with a large array of objectives and interests – while at the same time embodying and manifesting the new environmental goals and rationale of the Agence de l’eau (Water Agency). We underline the key role of ambiguity in making ‘things which hold together’ and facilitating consensus among the main actors involved. Highlights The reallocation of ‘saved water’ from investments in irrigation efficiency to the environment in the Durance Basin is aided by a Water Saving Account (WSA). Institutional, technological and cognitive path-dependent factors have shaped the settings of the WSA. Rather than deeply reordering water distribution, the WSA constitutes an ambiguous arrangement that favours the continuation of water savings investments. Ambiguities can be instrumental in reaching new institutional arrangements.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"15 1","pages":"118 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78482404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ideational bricolage as a route to transforming local institutions for heat decarbonisation: heat networks and local government in England","authors":"J. Britton, B. Woodman, J. Webb","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2082932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2082932","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Heat networks could play a significant role in energy system decarbonisation. Unlike much energy infrastructure, heat networks are developed at a local-scale, raising questions about which actors and institutions, at which scales, will most effectively deliver networks. This paper examines different ideas about the role of local government and the translation of those ideas into the institutional framework for heat networks in England. The paper applies a discursive institutionalist approach to analyse ideas and discourses across three case studies and at the national level. We argue that there is a push back by local governments against the UK government dominant discourse of the efficient market in respect to heat network development. This model constitutes the role of local governments as enabling and convening actors, while emphasising techno-economic feasibility and private finance. There is, however, evidence of local governments specifying a more central ensuring role and incorporating local public goods beyond financial returns. We highlight ideational bricolage as a process by which the local state can mobilise ideational power to challenge dominant discourses. This demonstrates how powerful institutions, and their discursive components, can be disrupted – and potentially displaced – by locally led emergent, and perhaps only partially coherent, assemblages of ideas.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"45 1","pages":"449 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78624889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Winds of change: examining attitude shifts regarding an offshore wind project","authors":"Samuel C. Bingaman, J. Firestone, D. Bidwell","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2078290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2078290","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Understanding how local attitudes toward commercial-scale renewable energy change over time should provide insight into how to engage communities and influence public acceptance during the energy transition. To augment the scarcity of longitudinal research on social acceptance of renewable energy, we use a mixed methods approach to explore how opinions regarding the Block Island Offshore Wind Project changed over time. We analyze two-year panel data from a survey of Block Island and coastal RI residents with a regression model and interviews to observe how opinions were influenced by attitude strength attributes, esthetics, general attitude towards wind power, process fairness, and demographics. Using the multi-layered results, we produce recommendations for stakeholders to better foster community relations from planning to operation. Abbreviations: Block Island Offshore Wind Project (BIOWP): Block Island; (BI): Rhode Island; (RI): Relative risk ratio; (RRR): Power purchase agreement (PPA)","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"11 1","pages":"55 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89864848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental justice against environmental policies: the example of Montreal boroughs","authors":"C. Patsias","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2079476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2079476","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines middle- and working-class citizens’ opposition to green policies in two Montreal boroughs. Through observation of council meetings, it seeks to understand how citizens discuss green policies in local political institutions. In this study, citizens do not oppose environmental policies by principle nor deny the existence of environmental problems. Rather, they feel swept along by a ‘green revolution’ for which they will bear most of the costs without any short-term benefit. In order to voice this concern, they tend to use the notion of environmental justice in opposition to environmental policies. Their understanding of environmental justice merges a procedural critique of democracy regarding participation and transparency and a substantial critique of inequities in the distribution of the environmental burden. These citizens also manifest an attachment to their neighborhood that connects the environment to the concept of the common good and an exercise of democracy. In this regard, this study reveals how citizens who mobilized within institutions come to a political understanding of environmental issues through the notion of environmental justice.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"39 1","pages":"74 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76672982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance: a longitudinal study of sustainable mobility services in Oslo","authors":"R. Røste","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2076661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2076661","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The attention that has been drawn to urban experimentation has contributed to new knowledge of the role of local governance for a sustainable transition. Still, there remains little knowledge of how municipalities can foster experimentation and that may result in real change across the protected spaces of experimentation and the existing policy structures. This paper aims at exploring how experimental governance result in real policy change over time by reviewing related discussions from the cross-disciplinary fields of sustainability transition and collaborative innovation, and by discussing findings from a longitudinal case study of an emerging innovation for sustainable mobility services in Oslo. This longitudinal study shows how experimental governance have played various roles at different times in the emerging innovation: promoting innovation, destabilising existing policy arrangements, transforming institutional routines and co-creating shared interests. The findings demonstrate the critical co-evolutionary dynamics of experimental governance, transforming existing policy structures over time.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"42 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77342175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Act global, think local? Local perspectives towards environmental sustainability in semi-rural communities of Alberta, Canada","authors":"Breana Venneman, Michael Kriechbaum, Thomas Brudermann","doi":"10.1080/1523908X.2022.2073206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2073206","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Despite the increasing popularity of the notion of sustainability, there have been global challenges in effectively addressing environmental problems. One of the key strengths of the sustainability concept is its ability to coordinate and unite otherwise contending groups. Because of this bridging function, however, the concept remains necessarily ambiguous, which can obscure existing inconsistencies and tensions and thereby block the successful translation into concrete policy action. In this study, we analyse how environmental sustainability is understood within semi-rural communities in the Canadian province Alberta, which exhibits a heavy economic reliance on fossil fuels and a strong conservative voter base. By carrying out a Q-method study in two characteristic towns, we were able to identify three competing sustainability perspectives: ‘Radical transition towards a post-fossil society’, ‘Maintaining the Albertan way of life’, and ‘Technological innovation and growth’. The study findings emphasize the embeddedness of sustainability framings in the cultural and socioeconomic context. Furthermore, the uncovered perspectives not only reveal conflicting viewpoints, but also areas of consensus as well as points which could be considered as neutral. It is argued that policy action should acknowledge both the place-specific nature as well as the nuance and complexity of environmental discourses to be effective.","PeriodicalId":15699,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning","volume":"40 1","pages":"839 - 851"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81377059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}