HOLSTEAD, Kirsty, TAYLOR AIKEN, Gerald, EADSON, William and BRAUNHOLTZ-SPEIGHT, Tim (2018). Putting community to use in environmental policy making: emerging trends in Scotland and the UK. Geography Compass, 12 (9), e12381.
Abstract
Community is frequently called upon in policy to meet
environmental challenges. It is increasingly recognized that
the success of these environmental interventions relies on
community awareness and action. But what this emphasis
on community does, and what the impacts are, are often
neglected, or left uncritiqued. To explore this issue, we
surveyed literature from the UK across four distinct
environmental domains—energy, urban greenspace, water,
and land—to chart what characterizes the use of community
in pursuit of environmental goals. We highlight the main
conceptual commonalities across the domains by focusing
on research that gives insight into the increased interest in
communities in environmental policy. In summary, we posit
that where community is used environmentally, it brings
with it (a) a reframing of justice, (b) processes of “public
making,” and (c) a rescaling of governance.
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