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The Environment and Postmodern Spatial Consciousness: A Sociology of Urban Environmental Agendas

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Planning generally views the environment as an objectively definable set of natural resource systems and relies on the natural sciences to reveal and describe its problems, such as pollution, loss of biodiversity, energy consumption or waste disposal. But why do the mass of people with little scientific knowledge or interest in the environment as a 'big issue' accept and even contentiously push forward planning's environmental agenda? This paper explores the sociological basis of environmental concern. It argues that the social dilemmas arising from the contemporary experience of space are drawn towards the environment and that it is this non-ecological, non-expert field of preoccupations which both legitimizes the environmental turn of contemporary planning and provides the real impetus behind environmental issues.

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  • Peter Brand, 1999. "The Environment and Postmodern Spatial Consciousness: A Sociology of Urban Environmental Agendas," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(5), pages 631-648.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:42:y:1999:i:5:p:631-648
    DOI: 10.1080/09640569910920
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    1. Chau-Kiu Cheung & Kwan-Kwok Leung, 2004. "Forming Life Satisfaction among Different Social Groups during the Modernization of China," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 5(1), pages 23-56, March.
    2. Chau-kiu Cheung & Kwan-kwok Leung, 2007. "Relating social welfare to life satisfaction in the postmodern era of Hong Kong," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 84(1), pages 53-70, October.

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