Helen Briassoulis
Biographic Data
| ID | 320164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Briassoulis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Briassoulis |
| SIGNATURE | BRIASSOULIS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Aegean |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3475-4655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Land Use Planning for Land Degradation Neutrality
Positing that land use planning (LUP) is both a technical and a political endeavor that should predominantly promote the preservation of the land‐based natural capital, the present study aspires to first, constructively problematize the Scientific Conceptual Framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (SCF‐LDN) approach and second, reveal the challenges of integrating LDN into LUP. This paper comprises four sections. The first briefly outlines and …
The making of good public plans Phronesis, Phronetic Planning Research and Assemblage Thinking
Planning for the common good requires the exercise of phronesis and a fitting ontology of planning situations. This paper critically appraises Flyvbjerg’s Phronetic Planning Research approach through the lens of Aristotelian phronesis and Assemblage Thinking, showing that it inadequately addresses these interdependent issues. It proposes an Assemblage-based Phronetic Planning Approach (APPA) and a methodology to implement it. APPA conceptualizes …
Becoming E-Petition
Ε-petitions, the digital version of printed petitions, are increasingly being used as complimentary means of nonconfrontational, online citizen mobilization/protest. They attract considerable research interest because they provide (big) data to study e-petitioning and the political and other aspects of socio-spatial issues. E-petition studies lack discussion of ontology, of "what is an e-petition," implicitly treating e-petitions as "systems-as-a…
The Catharsis of the Commons
Using Aristotle’s definition of the tragedy as a metaphor, the essay interprets the tragedy of the commons to highlight the critical role and socio-political importance of the emotions of fear and pity for its resolution and for furthering personal and collective 'eudaimonia' (good life) 'of' and 'in' the commons. Synthesizing the Aristotelian scholarship with pertinent contemporary literature, it presents Aristotle’s engagement with the commons,…
Governance as multiplicity
Response assemblages and their socioecological fit
Safeguarding the integrity of critical ecological functions that secure the continuous provision of ecosystem services requires the assessment of the effectiveness of human responses to environmental degradation. Narrowly defined response options, for example, isolated actions targeting the resources impacted or the drivers and proximate causes of environmental degradation, together with attention to ‘best practices’ and ‘proper policies’, may no…
Why I fell for assemblages
This response to the commentaries on my paper (Briassoulis (2017) Response assemblages and their socioecological fit: conceptualizing human responses to environmental degradation. Dialogues in Human Geography (this issue)) clarifies conceptual, methodological, policy, planning, and politics issues and summarizes the value of assemblage-based approaches for studying and intervening in sociospatial phenomena. Assemblage Thinking implies a processua…
Online petitions
Since the 1990s, internet-mediated research has been gradually gaining ground in the Social Sciences due, in part, to the expanding use of the internet by public and private organizations and individuals for numerous purposes. Among them, online petitions are often used nowadays to garner support on an issue. In several cases, they generate interesting sets of quantitative and qualitative data that can be used to address apposite research questio…
Sorry Golfers, This Is Not Your Spot
The worldwide expansion of golf development has been often accompanied by local opposition that at times has been strong. Most analyses focus on the views and attitudes of locals. The wider public's stance has been little researched. One reason may be the difficulty to obtain a satisfactorily diverse sample of the public in a given case. An international petition against a proposed golf resort in Greece has offered an opportunity to analyze publi…
Sustainable tourism and the question of the commons
Tourism and the Environment
Risk informed decision making in land use planning
The objective of the paper is to present a multicriteria decision methodology for supporting decisions about patterns of land development in the vicinity of major hazard installations. The proposed methodology is based on the paradigm of Multicriteria Decision Analysis and aims at integrating the results of risk analysis of major hazard installations with models for land use planning. The methodology possesses two main features: it is interactive…
How the Others Plan
Informal planning, although non-institutionalized, leads to planned outcomes that serve particular interests. The informal planning path runs parallel to or mixes with formal planning, shaping the context of formal planning practice. As the subject of informal planning is very broad and relatively unexplored, this article merely sets the stage for further analysis. It does so by pulling several strands of thought from the literature on the inform…
Pollution prevention for sustainable development
The central argument of the paper is that effective pollution prevention can be achieved only by integrated land-use planning which offers the broad framework for co-ordinating technological and non-technological means to achieve sustainable development. The paper first reviews the role of land-use in preventing or contributing to pollution over time, focusing especially on contemporary efforts to promote environmental protection through land-use…
The planning uses of fire
Forest fires represent a persistent problem in many countries, especially the southern Mediterranean. Several causes underlie their occurrence but their persistence may be better explained if fire is viewed as a tool in an informal planning process serving needs not satisfied by formal planning procedures. A framework for the analysis of informal planning is presented first, followed by a description and analysis of forest fires based on the Gree…
Tourism and the Environment
Dear Editor
Methodological issues
Sustainable tourism and the question of the commons
Governance as multiplicity
Methodological issues
Response assemblages and their socioecological fit
Safeguarding the integrity of critical ecological functions that secure the continuous provision of ecosystem services requires the assessment of the effectiveness of human responses to environmental degradation. Narrowly defined response options, for example, isolated actions targeting the resources impacted or the drivers and proximate causes of environmental degradation, together with attention to ‘best practices’ and ‘proper policies’, may no…
Online petitions
Since the 1990s, internet-mediated research has been gradually gaining ground in the Social Sciences due, in part, to the expanding use of the internet by public and private organizations and individuals for numerous purposes. Among them, online petitions are often used nowadays to garner support on an issue. In several cases, they generate interesting sets of quantitative and qualitative data that can be used to address apposite research questio…
Sorry Golfers, This Is Not Your Spot
The worldwide expansion of golf development has been often accompanied by local opposition that at times has been strong. Most analyses focus on the views and attitudes of locals. The wider public's stance has been little researched. One reason may be the difficulty to obtain a satisfactorily diverse sample of the public in a given case. An international petition against a proposed golf resort in Greece has offered an opportunity to analyze publi…
How the Others Plan
Informal planning, although non-institutionalized, leads to planned outcomes that serve particular interests. The informal planning path runs parallel to or mixes with formal planning, shaping the context of formal planning practice. As the subject of informal planning is very broad and relatively unexplored, this article merely sets the stage for further analysis. It does so by pulling several strands of thought from the literature on the inform…
Becoming E-Petition
Ε-petitions, the digital version of printed petitions, are increasingly being used as complimentary means of nonconfrontational, online citizen mobilization/protest. They attract considerable research interest because they provide (big) data to study e-petitioning and the political and other aspects of socio-spatial issues. E-petition studies lack discussion of ontology, of "what is an e-petition," implicitly treating e-petitions as "systems-as-a…
Why I fell for assemblages
This response to the commentaries on my paper (Briassoulis (2017) Response assemblages and their socioecological fit: conceptualizing human responses to environmental degradation. Dialogues in Human Geography (this issue)) clarifies conceptual, methodological, policy, planning, and politics issues and summarizes the value of assemblage-based approaches for studying and intervening in sociospatial phenomena. Assemblage Thinking implies a processua…
The Catharsis of the Commons
Using Aristotle’s definition of the tragedy as a metaphor, the essay interprets the tragedy of the commons to highlight the critical role and socio-political importance of the emotions of fear and pity for its resolution and for furthering personal and collective 'eudaimonia' (good life) 'of' and 'in' the commons. Synthesizing the Aristotelian scholarship with pertinent contemporary literature, it presents Aristotle’s engagement with the commons,…
Dear Editor
Methodological issues
The planning uses of fire
Forest fires represent a persistent problem in many countries, especially the southern Mediterranean. Several causes underlie their occurrence but their persistence may be better explained if fire is viewed as a tool in an informal planning process serving needs not satisfied by formal planning procedures. A framework for the analysis of informal planning is presented first, followed by a description and analysis of forest fires based on the Gree…
Tourism and the Environment
Pollution prevention for sustainable development
The central argument of the paper is that effective pollution prevention can be achieved only by integrated land-use planning which offers the broad framework for co-ordinating technological and non-technological means to achieve sustainable development. The paper first reviews the role of land-use in preventing or contributing to pollution over time, focusing especially on contemporary efforts to promote environmental protection through land-use…
How the Others Plan
Informal planning, although non-institutionalized, leads to planned outcomes that serve particular interests. The informal planning path runs parallel to or mixes with formal planning, shaping the context of formal planning practice. As the subject of informal planning is very broad and relatively unexplored, this article merely sets the stage for further analysis. It does so by pulling several strands of thought from the literature on the inform…
Tourism and the Environment
Risk informed decision making in land use planning
The objective of the paper is to present a multicriteria decision methodology for supporting decisions about patterns of land development in the vicinity of major hazard installations. The proposed methodology is based on the paradigm of Multicriteria Decision Analysis and aims at integrating the results of risk analysis of major hazard installations with models for land use planning. The methodology possesses two main features: it is interactive…
Sustainable tourism and the question of the commons
Online petitions
Since the 1990s, internet-mediated research has been gradually gaining ground in the Social Sciences due, in part, to the expanding use of the internet by public and private organizations and individuals for numerous purposes. Among them, online petitions are often used nowadays to garner support on an issue. In several cases, they generate interesting sets of quantitative and qualitative data that can be used to address apposite research questio…
Sorry Golfers, This Is Not Your Spot
The worldwide expansion of golf development has been often accompanied by local opposition that at times has been strong. Most analyses focus on the views and attitudes of locals. The wider public's stance has been little researched. One reason may be the difficulty to obtain a satisfactorily diverse sample of the public in a given case. An international petition against a proposed golf resort in Greece has offered an opportunity to analyze publi…
Response assemblages and their socioecological fit
Safeguarding the integrity of critical ecological functions that secure the continuous provision of ecosystem services requires the assessment of the effectiveness of human responses to environmental degradation. Narrowly defined response options, for example, isolated actions targeting the resources impacted or the drivers and proximate causes of environmental degradation, together with attention to ‘best practices’ and ‘proper policies’, may no…
Why I fell for assemblages
This response to the commentaries on my paper (Briassoulis (2017) Response assemblages and their socioecological fit: conceptualizing human responses to environmental degradation. Dialogues in Human Geography (this issue)) clarifies conceptual, methodological, policy, planning, and politics issues and summarizes the value of assemblage-based approaches for studying and intervening in sociospatial phenomena. Assemblage Thinking implies a processua…
The Catharsis of the Commons
Using Aristotle’s definition of the tragedy as a metaphor, the essay interprets the tragedy of the commons to highlight the critical role and socio-political importance of the emotions of fear and pity for its resolution and for furthering personal and collective 'eudaimonia' (good life) 'of' and 'in' the commons. Synthesizing the Aristotelian scholarship with pertinent contemporary literature, it presents Aristotle’s engagement with the commons,…
Governance as multiplicity
Becoming E-Petition
Ε-petitions, the digital version of printed petitions, are increasingly being used as complimentary means of nonconfrontational, online citizen mobilization/protest. They attract considerable research interest because they provide (big) data to study e-petitioning and the political and other aspects of socio-spatial issues. E-petition studies lack discussion of ontology, of "what is an e-petition," implicitly treating e-petitions as "systems-as-a…
The making of good public plans Phronesis, Phronetic Planning Research and Assemblage Thinking
Planning for the common good requires the exercise of phronesis and a fitting ontology of planning situations. This paper critically appraises Flyvbjerg’s Phronetic Planning Research approach through the lens of Aristotelian phronesis and Assemblage Thinking, showing that it inadequately addresses these interdependent issues. It proposes an Assemblage-based Phronetic Planning Approach (APPA) and a methodology to implement it. APPA conceptualizes …
Land Use Planning for Land Degradation Neutrality
Positing that land use planning (LUP) is both a technical and a political endeavor that should predominantly promote the preservation of the land‐based natural capital, the present study aspires to first, constructively problematize the Scientific Conceptual Framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (SCF‐LDN) approach and second, reveal the challenges of integrating LDN into LUP. This paper comprises four sections. The first briefly outlines and …
Political science (14 works) · Geography (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Assemblage (archaeology (4 works)