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Project: Following planners around: examining the changing role ofplanners and t...
  • Title (NL) Het volgen van de planners: het onderzoeken van de veranderende rol van planners en mobilisatie van expertise
  • Period 02 / 2005 - 01 / 2009
  • Status Current
  • Dissertation Yes
Abstract
bullet Abstract The PhD research focuses on: Planning nature and landscape: under what circumstances does expertise impede or enhance collective policy making? It addresses the role of planners in environmental planning. Under what circumstances does their expertise impede or enhance collective policy making in the Netherlands? The Dutch land use system is meant to facilitate a balanced land use, and a legitimate decision making process on development and protection. However, typical compromises reached in contemporary policy processes have fragmented the landscape, impoverished nature quality and have not contributed directly or indirectly to an improvement of urban life. Projects have been characterized as sub-optimal, slow to implement and often incoherently coordinated with other (local, regional, national) projects. When it comes to landscape and nature policies lack the scale of intervention specialists deem necessary. The period of crises of the last decade has invoked experiments of alternative practices of planning. Until now the failure of the planning system is blamed on various macro-sociological changes, such as an increasing complexity within a risk society, fading distinctions between state and market, combined with an ideological shift away from state intervention. The PhD research will address above developments from a new point of view: the role of planners and the way they mobilize their expertise. Herewith it combines epistemological theories on the production of knowledge and reason with those on planning and (democratic) governing.
Related organisations
bullet Secretariat Amsterdamse School voor Sociaal-Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - ASSR (UvA)
bullet Collaboration Afdeling Politicologie (UvA)
bullet Financier NWO Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen - MaGW (NWO)
Related people
bullet Supervisor Prof.dr. M.A. Hajer
bullet Doctoral/PhD student Drs. J. Grijzen
Related research (upper level)
bullet Program Rethinking Politics
Classification
bullet A87000 Political relations and international relations
bullet A88000 Public administration and policy
bullet D42100 Political science
Data Supplier: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
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