Governing Space: Planning Reform and the Politics of Sustainability

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Contested environmental policy infrastructure: socio-political acceptance of renewable energy, water, and waste facilities (2010, background): “Examples of the struggle between topdown and bottom-up approaches and the relevance to sustainability can also be found in the development in the institutional setting of the English spatial planning systems (Cowell & Owens 2006).”
Partnership funding in flood risk management: new localism debate and policy in England (2014, background): “The main problem for the local authorities is the gap between policy guidelines and the implementation processes (Cowell and Owens 2006) often resulting in misunderstandings and conflicts between different actors, citizens and stakeholders in particular where different agendas and levels of…”
Social acceptance of renewable energy innovation: An introduction to the concept (2007, unknown): “The planning systems in countries are very different, but at the level of central government in several countries there is a tendency towards a growing top-down, technocratic, hierarchical way of thinking about how the planning systems must be shaped (Wolsink, 2003; Cowell and Owens, 2006).”