Consensus building for sustainability in the wider countryside

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: ENV4960193

Project closed

Start date 1 May 1996

End date 30 April 1999

Funded under

• Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise - ASBL
Belgium

Objective

To analyze the effectiveness of new participative processes for regional management (town and country planning) in order to support sustainable development of rural areas.

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze the effectiveness of new participative processes for regional management (town and country planning) in order to support sustainable development of rural areas.
DESCRIPTION:
The evolution of environmental problems and policies requires institutional adaptations and innovations in the structures and management methods of local and regional bodies. Wider countryside management arises from the need to ensure that conservation is no longer restricted to the protected areas and from the multiple protection zoning (water, landscape, grounds, etc) superposed in rural areas. The project will compare several cases of new forms of integrating policies and zoning in the management of rural areas where negotiations between the opposing interests is privileged. The aim is to build management settings that are sustainable because they are founded on the cooperation between the actors; they often combine top-down and bottom-up approaches.
The project uses the concepts and methods derived from the sociology of technical innovation and aims to analyse and evaluate:
i) the representation processes of the different environmental interests (translation);
ii) the integration processes of the scientific concepts and methodologies and the administrative procedures;
iii) the processes of negotiation between the actors;
iv) the effectiveness and the efficiency of these new procedures;
v) their durability, i.e. the possibility of achieving stability in management procedures.
This comparative approach will make it possible to simultaneously assess national and local experiences and to formulate conclusions and proposals with regard to the institutional developments required to support sustainable development of rural areas.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• social sciences › sociology
• social sciences › political sciences › public administration › bureaucracy

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Programme(s)

• FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 04 - Human dimensions of environmental change

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise - ASBL

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 185,Avenue de Longwy ; 6700 Arlon ; Belgium
• Total cost: No data

Participants (2)

CHELTENHAM AND GLOUCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Swindon Road, Francis Close Hall Campus ; GL50 4AZ CHELTENHAM
• Total cost: No data

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Domaine Saint-Paul ; 84914 Avignon
• Total cost: No data