PLANNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE EUROPE? - TU Berlin

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Printed on November 17, 2002
Last revised on September 19, 2002
CHAPTER TEN
The Dilemmas of Planning for a
Sustainable Europe
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10.1 Planning, Sustainability and the “Contextual Discourse” Dilemma............... 402
10.2 Summary of Previous Chapter Contents and Conclusions ............................. 405
10.2.1 Theory-Building: What is a “Sustainable” Europe? ............................... 405
10.2.2 Rhetoric: EU Transport Policy Discourses............................................. 407
10.2.3 Realities: EU Transport Investments in Central Eastern Europe............ 410
10.3 Cross-Cutting Conclusions on “Sustainable” Decision-Making .................... 414
10.3.1 Normative Challenges: “Interpreting” Environmental Sustainability .... 414
10.3.2 Legitimacy, Stakeholder Interests, and Mutually-Exclusive Objectives 415
10.3.3 Higher Stakes Increase the Sophistication of Alternative Discourses.... 417
10.3.4 Opportunistic Reasons for Adopting “Sustainability” Criteria............... 418
10.3.5 Different Rationalities at Different Levels of Decision-Making ............ 419
10.3.6 Different Rationalities at Different Times of Decision-Making............. 421
10.3.7 “A Bottleneck is a Bottleneck is a …”? How Language Frames Policy 422
10.3.8 The Role of Spatial Storylines and Leitbilder in Shaping Policy........... 424
10.4 Suggestions for Better Transport Decision-Making in Europe....................... 426
10.4.1 Taking Action on Strategic Environmental Assessment ........................ 427
10.4.2 Bringing the Urban and Regional Dimensions Back In.......................... 427
10.4.3 Integrated, Intermodal Thinking Instead of Bottleneck Fixing .............. 429
10.4.4 Making the “Who Benefits” Question More Transparent ...................... 430
10.4.5 Rethinking the Relationship between Traffic and Spatial Arguments.... 431
10.4.6 Strengthen Local Planning and Land Use Regulations........................... 432
10.5 Outlook: Suggestions for Further Research.................................................... 433