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Moving from agenda to action: evaluating local climate change action plans
Climate change is conventionally recognised as a large-scale issue resolved through regional or national policy initiatives. However, little research has been done to directly evaluate local climate change action plans. This study examines 40 recently adopted local climate change action plans in the US and analyses how well they recognise the concepts of climate change and prepare for climate c…
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- Volume 53, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 41 - 62
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Measuring neighbourhood air pollution: the case of Seattle's international di…
Current US regulatory air quality monitoring networks measure ambient levels of pollutants and cannot capture the effects of mobile sources at the micro-scale. Despite the fact that overall air quality has been getting better, more vulnerable populations (children, the elderly, minorities and the poor) continue to suffer from traffic-related air pollution. As development intensifies in urban ar…
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- Volume 53, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 23 - 39
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A contextual framework for understanding good practice in integrated catchmen…
Principles of good practice for collaborative resource management were derived from the literature and their use studied in a range of integrated catchment management processes. Desk-based reviews and interviews with participants allowed the principles to be refined and described within a framework that illustrates the interrelationships between core principles, enabling principles, precursors …
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- Volume 53, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 63 - 89
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The values of biological diversity: a travelogue
Biological diversity is an abstract, scientific concept and both evaluating its condition and, to great extent, justifying its conservation requires expert knowledge. Accordingly, regulating and managing biological diversity presupposes standardisation and methods for managing uncertainty. To be acted on, the concept must be promoted, passing, in this process, through various institutions, such…
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- Volume 53, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 91 - 105
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Take your swimsuit along: the value of improving urban bathing sites in the m…
Many inhabitants of Berlin enjoy bathing in lakes and rivers during the summer. However, so far no data exist about who goes bathing and what quality bathers expect from bathing sites. In an online survey conducted during the summer of 2007 respondents were presented with a choice experiment concerning various attributes of bathing sites such as water quality or cleanliness of the beach. Applyi…
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- Volume 53, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 107 - 124
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International retirement migration in the Alicante region, Spain: process, sp…
International retirement migration has become an increasing phenomenon in the Mediterranean region of Alicante, Spain. Through an interdisciplinary approach, relationships between the migration process, landscape change and environmental impacts are examined. Lifestyle-related perceptions and demands of UK retirees are studied as a major driving force of urbanisation. The extent and quality of …
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- Volume 53, Issue 1 January 2010 , pages 125 - 141
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Performance and dilemmas of urban containment strategies in the transformatio…
The implementation of urban containment policies is increasingly attracting attention in environment management. Rapid urban growth and the coexistence of decentralisation and marketisation challenge containment strategies that are implemented to control urban sprawl. This challenge is likely to be greater in a transformation country than in developed countries. This paper evaluates the perform…
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- Volume 53, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 143 - 161
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Better than their reputation: enhancing the validity of contingent valuation …
Although contingent valuation is the dominant technique for the valuation of public projects, especially in the environmental sector, the high costs of contingent valuation surveys prevent the use of this method for the assessment of relatively small projects. The reason for this cost problem is that typically only contingent valuation studies which are based on face-to-face interviews are acce…
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- Volume 53, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 163 - 182
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Sustainable land-use planning: revitalising a flood prone office park
This paper describes an applied research project that used a sustainable land-use planning approach to examine flood hazard mitigation alternatives in a 536-acre developed office park complex. A watershed-wide assessment including floodplain remapping and modelling of low-impact and large stormwater improvements throughout the upper watershed revealed limited impact on reducing flooding downstr…
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- Volume 53, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 183 - 196
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Avoiding the presumptive policy errors of intergovernmental environmental pla…
This social research aims to identify and examine the implementation presumptions of intergovernmental environmental planning programmes and how to improve their effectiveness in future practice. It contrasts and explains the organisational dynamics and implementation responses of municipalities that succeeded and failed in realising the objective of such a programme. The research involved a qu…
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- Volume 53, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 197 - 217
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Non-linear incentives, plan design, and flood mitigation: the case of the Fed…
A basic proposition of 'agency theory' is that output-based performance incentives encourage greater effort. However, studies find that incentive schemes can distort effort if rewards for performance are discrete or non-linear. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Community Rating System (CRS) is a flood mitigation programme with a non-linear incentive design. Under this programme, …
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- Volume 53, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 219 - 239
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From mute to reflective: changing governmentality in St Petersburg and the pr…
This paper analyses, by using a constructivist methodology, how sustainability is perceived by Russian urban and regional planners and how environmental planning is understood on a discursive level. The planning discourse, which was reconstructed primarily with the help of 14 thematic interviews undertaken in St Petersburg, is positioned on the axes of the triangle of planning contradictions. T…
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- Volume 53, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 241 - 256
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Redeveloping derelict and underused historic city areas: evidence from a surv…
Are economic incentives and regulatory relief useful tools for encouraging reuse of abandoned or under-utilised urban sites with historic buildings? Answering this question is of key importance for many European cities and for older US cities, and has important implications in terms of urban sustainability and “smart growth” initiatives. This study uses conjoint choice experiments to explore th…
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- Volume 53, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 257 - 281
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The central role of centralisation in environmental policy initialisation
While economic research on environmental policy is mainly concerned with instruments, political science concentrates on actors. The issue of centralisation needs to be analysed using a multidisciplinary approach because it is connected with both actors and instruments. Linking the Advocacy Coalition Framework with an economic approach, the paper first develops an innovative model in order to un…
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- Volume 53, Issue 3 April 2010 , pages 283 - 295
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Relation between management's behavioural intentions toward the environment a…
Drawing on Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behaviour, this paper analyses whether there is a relation between management's behavioural intentions toward an environmental problem and the company's specific actions in this area, and also considers the impact of the company size on these actions. For the data, a questionnaire was sent to 184 managers employed in industrial companies located in Spain whi…
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- Volume 53, Issue 3 April 2010 , pages 297 - 315
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Stewardship among lifestyle oriented rural landowners
Changes in landownership associated with amenity migration are affecting the demographic, cadastral and ecological conditions of rural landscapes. These changes and concerns about their impacts on natural resource management, including ecological conservation, relate to both the structural consequences of landownership change, land subdivision and to the motivations, management ability and atti…
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- Volume 53, Issue 3 April 2010 , pages 317 - 334
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The impact of visual information on perceptions of water resource problems an…
To assess changes in human understanding and decision making, the paper examines (1) the influence of visual information on perceptions about groundwater management in Phoenix, Arizona and (2) the correlates and dimensions underlying people's views about water scarcity and mitigation strategies. While perceptions entrenched in ideologies are difficult to change, different types of information (…
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- Volume 53, Issue 3 April 2010 , pages 335 - 352
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Surrounded by Chemical Valley and 'living in a bubble': the case of the Aamji…
This study examines the perceptions and coping strategies of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, which is surrounded by 'Chemical Valley', the largest complex of petrochemical plants in Canada. Analysis of in-depth interviews showed that residents perceive 'Mother Earth to be sick'; however, a strong level of community cohesion prevails, with 'place' as a significant anchor to the culture and history…
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- Volume 53, Issue 3 April 2010 , pages 353 - 370
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Economic costs of extratropical storms under climate change: an application o…
Extratropical cyclones have attracted some attention in climate policy circles as a possible significant damage factor of climate change. This study conducts an assessment of economic impacts of increased storm activities under climate change with the integrated assessment model FUND 3.5. In the base case, the direct economic damage of enhanced storms due to climate change amounts to US$2.8 bil…
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- Volume 53, Issue 3 April 2010 , pages 371 - 384
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A longitudinal study of the links between Local Air Quality Management and Lo…
The second round of the Local Transport Plan (LTP2) process in England presents unique challenges and opportunities for integrating Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) within current transport planning policy. Using content analysis of LTP2 documents from nine English authorities, and results from a questionnaire survey of local government officers undertaken in late 2007, this paper charts the…
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- Volume 53, Issue 3 April 2010 , pages 385 - 403
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