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Who Plans Whose Sustainability? Alternative Roles for Planners

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  • Helen Briassoulis

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The paper examines alternative roles for planners in planning for sustainable development. First, it outlines the particular context of the task focusing on operational questions, critical issues and sustainable development planning principles. It then explores roles for planners in this context distinguishing broadly among technician, politician and hybrid planners. It evaluates broadly each role's effectiveness and challenges, in particular decision making and political contexts. Finally, it discusses, first, the implications of these roles for planning education and identifies the main groups of skills planning schools should offer. Second, it analyses briefly the implications of these roles for planning practice in terms of the spatial/organizational level of planning, time horizon, functional planning areas, political/decision making system and planning's position in this system.

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  • Helen Briassoulis, 1999. "Who Plans Whose Sustainability? Alternative Roles for Planners," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(6), pages 889-902.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:42:y:1999:i:6:p:889-902
    DOI: 10.1080/09640569910885
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    2. Sheryl Green & Paul Pace, 2019. "Sustainable Development Awareness and Policy Making in Malta," Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, , vol. 13(2), pages 152-167, September.
    3. Yamini Narayanan, 2012. "Violence Against Women in Delhi: A Sustainability Problematic," Journal of South Asian Development, , vol. 7(1), pages 1-22, April.
    4. Misilu Mia Nsokimieno Eric & Earl Bailey & Mpinda Tushiminine Martin & Carleen Abraham & Jiangfeng Li & Liqin Zhang, 2014. "Ongoing Informal Settlements in Democratic Republic of Congo: Implementing New Urban Policy for Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods," Journal of Sustainable Development, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 7(5), pages 254-254, September.

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