Environmental planning in the Netherlands : too good to be true : from command-and-control planning to shared governance / Gert De Roo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roo, Gert de.

Series:

Urban planning and environment

Standardized Title:

Planning per se, planning per saldo. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects--Netherlands.

City planning.

Regional planning--Environmental aspects--Netherlands.

Regional planning.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Netherlands.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Environmental policy--Netherlands.

Environmental policy.

Regional planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

xvii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

1 Introduction: Conflicts, Decision-Making and Complexity in Environmental Planning

1.1 Enschede, 13 May 2000 1

1.2 Reservations about Command-and-Control Planning 2

1.3 Conflicts and Decision-Making as Subjects for Study 6

Environmental/Spatial Conflicts as Material and Administrative Objects 7

Environmental and Spatial Decision-Making as an Administrative Object 8

1.4 Complexity as the Basis for Theoretical Reflection 9

1.5 Towards a Complexity-Related Theoretical Perspective for Planning 11

1.6 Reader's Guide 12

Part A Environmental/Spatial Conflicts in a Changing Context

2 Externalities and the 'Grey' Environment: Environmental/Spatial Conflict in the Context of Environmental Encroachment

2.2 The 'Grey' Environment as a Coherent Concept 21

2.3 A Problem Chain for the 'Grey' Environment 23

2.4 Environmental Health and Hygiene in an Urban Context 25

Pollution, Depletion and Damage 25

The Effects of Pollution on Humans 27

Characteristics of Environmental Pollution 28

2.5 Local Environmental Conflict as a Policy Theme 30

Disturbance 32

Dispersion 34

Acidification 35

2.6 Evaluating the Grey Environment 37

Sustainability 37

Liveability 39

Appraisal, Responsibility and Management/Control 41

2.7 Environmental/Spatial Conflict and Environmental Health and Hygiene 43

3 The Compact City: A Concept of Overexpectation

3.2 The Concept of the Compact City 52

The Compact City as a Spatial Concept 52

The Compact City as a Concept for Sustainable Development 55

Density versus Sustainability 56

3.3 Clustering, Growth and Contour Planning 57

Clustering by Consensus 58

Planning by Contours 60

A Distribution Formula for Growth 62

The Changing Intraurban Environment 66

3.4 Environmental Conflict in the Compact City 68

Scale, Area, Distance and Location 69

Conflict Locations 71

Part B Complexity and Pluriformity

4 Planning-Oriented Action in a Theoretical Perspective: Complexity and Pluriformity

4.2 Environmental/Spatial Conflict as a Planning Object 91

4.3 A Pluriform Approach to Planning 94

A Changing View of Planning: the Dutch Perspective 94

A Pluriform Perspective 96

What, How and Who 97

4.4 A Comprehensive, Coherent Vision of Planning-Oriented Action 98

4.5 Goal-Directed Action from a Systems-Theory Perspective 102

The Systems-Theory Approach to Planning 102

Effects of Planning 105

Single and Multiple Objectives 105

Context 107

4.6 Rational Theories for Decision-Led Action 108

Rationality as the Basis for Planning 109

Limitations of the Functional-Rational Model 110

Objective Knowledge and Intersubjective Interaction 112

Communicative Rationality 113

4.7 Institution-Oriented Action: Interaction and Networking 115

The Awareness of Intersubjective Conduct 115

Actors and their Role in Organisational Relationships 117

Institutional Networks 119

Three Theoretical Perspectives on Governance 121

4.8 Complexity as a Criterion for Planning-Oriented Action 125

Complexity and the Discourse on Planning Theory 125

Objective and Intersubjective Evaluation of Complexity 127

A Systems-Theory Perception of Complexity 130

Complexity Theory as an Explanation for Development and 'Progress' 132

4.9 Towards a Coherent Theoretical Framework for Planning-Oriented Action 135

The Contingency Approach: a Goal-Led Approach to Decision-Led Action 135

Interaction: an Institutional Orientation towards Decision-Based Action 137

Friedmann's Typology of Allocative Planning Styles 138

A Functional Framework for Planning-Oriented Action 140

Part C Interaction and Changing Goals in Area-Specific Environmental Policy

5 The Standardisation and Institutionalisation of Environmental Policy: From a Technically Sound Policy to Policy Based on Shared Governance

5.2 The 1970s and the 'Limits to Growth' 161

The Priority Policy Document on Pollution Control: Standards as a Foundation of Policy 162

The 1976 Policy Document on Ambient Environmental Standards (PDAES) 164

The Noise Abatement Act: a Centralised Policy Framework for Defining Standards 165

Soil, Odour and Risk Standards 168

5.3 Integration: the Buzzword of the 1980s 173

Environmental Policy Integration Plan 175

More than the Sum of its Parts 176

Formal Steps Taken in the Indicative Long-Term Programme for the Environment, 1985-1989 179

NMP-1: a Window on the 1990s 182

5.4 Area-Specific Environmental Policy: Aversion and Euphoria 185

The Third Track 186

Integrated Environmental Zoning 190

The ROM Designated-Areas Policy 203

From 'Technically Sound to Consensus-Based ...' 214

5.5 Hierarchic Governance versus Local Initiative 218

The First Steps towards a Structural, Decentralised and Flexible Environmental Policy 219

City & Environment: Standards, Compensation and Local Creativity 224

Odour Policy: Varied According to Complexity 228

Soil: from a Multifunctional to a Function-Oriented Approach 229

Noise Policy: Directional, Locally Justified and Area-Specific 236

6 A Decision-Making Model Based on Complexity: Pilot Projects in Integrated Environmental Zoning as a Source of Inspiration

6.1 Prelude 259

6.2 A Model for Decision-Oriented Action 260

6.3 The IBO Model Adapted for the VS-IMZ Discussion 264

Quality 265

Rigidity 266

Spatial-Functional Perspective 267

Temporal Perspective 268

Relational Perspective 269

6.4 Complexity and Decision-Making in Relation to the IMZ Pilot Projects 270

7 Liveability on the Banks of the IJ: Environmental Policy of the City of Amsterdam

7.2 Liveability as a Policy Philosophy 290

7.3 Liveability and Integrated Area-Specific Policy 292

7.4 The IJ Riverbank Project 294

7.5 The Environmental Performance System 298

7.6 Houthavens: Environment and Spatial Structure 300

7.7 Houthavens versus Westpoort 302

7.8 Noise Zones surrounding the Westpoort Area 304

7.9 Other Forms of Pollution Originating at Westpoort 307

Risk 308

Dust 308

Odour 309

8 From 'Command-and-Control' Planning to Shared Governance: Final Observations on the Link between Complexity and Decision-Making in Environmental Planning

8.1 The Heart of the Matter: Straightforward and Complex Issues 321

8.2 Complexity and the Environmental/Spatial Conflict 322

8.3 The Relationship between the Conflict, Complexity and the Decision-Maker 324

8.4 The Significance of Complexity from a Systems-Theory Perspective 325

8.5 'Complexity' from a Planning-Theory Perspective 328

8.6 Complexity, Coherence and Consensus in Environmental Policy 330

8.7 Environmental Policy at the Local Level: towards Shared Governance? 334

Legislation 383.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-379) and index.

ISBN:

0754638456

OCLC:

52269635