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Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora's box for the built and natural environment?
Scott, Alister; Kirby, Matthew.
Affiliation
  • Scott A; Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Room, B305 Ellison Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK. alister.scott@northumbria.ac.uk.
  • Kirby M; Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Room, B305 Ellison Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.
Ambio ; 53(8): 1136-1151, 2024 Aug.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38489013
ABSTRACT
This paper assesses how strategic planning for nature can be improved for England's built and natural environment using mainstreaming and landscape-scale concepts. Whilst both concepts feature in academic literature, there has been limited attention on their role as catalytic agents for strategic planning. Addressing this gap, evidence is used from two stakeholder workshops involving 62 senior policy experts managing a range of operational and hypothetical strategic spatial planning challenges. The results reveal a significantly weakened strategic planning arena characterised by policy disintegration, short termism and uncertainty. Key findings highlight the fallacy of pursuing strategic planning for nature in isolation from wider policy integration fusing environmental, economic and social components from the outset. Current barriers to progress include institutional inertia, technocratic vocabularies and neoliberalist priorities exacerbated by a weak underlying theory. Conversely opportunities for mainstreaming processes may help knowledge generation and exchange within transdisciplinary partnerships, whilst landscape scale thinking can improve understanding of issues using natures inherent geometry transforming processes and outcomes. The paper recommends the adoption of strategic planning pathways using mainstreaming and landscape-scale approaches working in tandem. Whilst focused on the English context, our findings are transferable to other planning systems in the Global North, especially those championing neoliberal market led policies.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Strategic Planning / Conservation of Natural Resources Country/Region as subject: Europa Language: En Journal: Ambio Year: 2024 Type: Article Affiliation country: United kingdom

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Strategic Planning / Conservation of Natural Resources Country/Region as subject: Europa Language: En Journal: Ambio Year: 2024 Type: Article Affiliation country: United kingdom