New Governance, Green Planning and Sustainability

Tasmania Together and Growing Victoria Together 1

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ID11961597
AutoresKate Crowley (0000-0001-6190-2233, University of Tasmania, autor correspondente), Brandon Coffey (0000-0001-8020-9717, The University of Queensland)
Ano2007
Volume66
Fascículo1
Páginas23-37
Data de publicação2007-03-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Journal of Public Administration (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0313-6647 • E-ISSN: 1467-8500
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8500.2007.00511.x
OpenAlexW2092750553
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas15

Bridgman and Davis (2000:91) have argued that ‘ideally government will have a well developed and widely distributed policy framework, setting out economic, social and environmental objectives’. This article compares and evaluates two such frameworks or plans, Tasmania Together and Growing Victoria Together, in terms of their potential to promote sustainability. It argues that they are very different exercises in new governance, aimed at reconnecting with community priorities and at redirecting macro‐policy setting away from a preoccupation with economic priorities, respectively. Nevertheless, both plans have the capacity to ‘green’ state planning, in Tasmania in terms of more purposeful benchmarks, and in Victoria in terms of enhanced sustainability emphasis in the macro‐policy setting. The article encounters tensions in its review of the plans between deliberation and planning, policy empowerment and policy progress, and policy institutionalisation and politicisation as means of achieving policy change. It finds that whilst Tasmania and Victoria are re‐engaged states that are reinventing state policy, as yet they are failing to meet the governance challenges of sustainability

Corporate governance · Deliberation · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Environmental planning · Geography · Government (linguistics · Institutionalisation · Management · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Sustainability · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Rural development and sustainability · Urban Planning and Governance · Ecology