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Environmental Sustainability and the British Planning System - A Behavioural Approach.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Environmental Sustainability and the British Planning System - A Behavioural Approach./
Author:	Buck, Malachy Patrick.
Description:	1 online resource (266 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05A.
Subject:	Air pollution. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380721684

Environmental Sustainability and the British Planning System - A Behavioural Approach.
Buck, Malachy Patrick.

Environmental Sustainability and the British Planning System - A Behavioural Approach. - 1 online resource (266 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Poor air quality, biodiversity loss and climate change are three of the most pressing environmental threats facing humanity. Each challenge is ultimately driven by human behaviour and requires rapid, and wide-range changes across the economy to adapt to and mitigate these issues. Spatial planning represents a mechanism which can develop, implement and coordinate these changes across a range of contexts and spatial scales. This is due to its ability to balance the response to these challenges alongside a range of potentially conflicting policy goals. To enable this, it is necessary to identify and understand the wide range of factors which influence and underpin human behaviour across a variety of contexts. Whilst there is a range of theoretical approaches to planning, there has been a common failure to accurately consider the role of human behaviour within these approaches. This thesis illustrates this 'behavioural gap' and addresses this by presenting an alternative, behavioural approach to planning.This approach is applied to three empirical studies, which represent a sample of potential spatial planning strategies to address the aforementioned environmental challenges. This formed the basis for a synthesis which identifies and explains a set of factors which support and hinder the implementation of pro-environmental policies and practices within spatial planning. This thesis draws from approaches from across the spectrum of behavioural theory. As a result, a wide range of factors which influence behaviour was identified, with cognitive biases, heuristics, norms, experiential knowledge and the physical environment variably impacting behaviour and the ability to implement new policies and practices within spatial planning.This evidence identifies that the long-term impacts of these threats and the uncertain pay-offs of mitigation and adaptation activity mean the incentives for planning authorities to implement policy and practice change are often limited. The impact of planning culture was also evident, with norms, attitudes and habits within an authority creating or limiting the opportunity space for the development and implementation of a new approach to address environmental challenges. The individual skills and knowledge of planners were also identified as being central to shaping the ability to develop and implement new policies. A further influence was the market context which presented challenges and opportunities for authorities depending upon the socio-economic context of a local authority. This analysis led to the development of a series of recommendations for planning policies and practice as well as for the education of planners. These include the need for strong leadership in local authority, greater resourcing for environmental initiatives within planning, changes to institution structure and a need for greater use of behavioural theory within planning education.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380721684Subjects--Topical Terms:

1253969
Air pollution.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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