Contested Delineations

Planning, Law, and the Governance of Protected Areas

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4139101
AutoresRaoul Beunen (0000-0001-5005-075X, Strategic Communication Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands), Kristof Van Assche (0000-0002-8368-1993)
Ano2013
Volume45
Fascículo6
Páginas1285-1301
Data de publicação2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a45284
OpenAlexW2015440240
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas47

In this paper we reflect on the relationship between planning and law. We analyse the Dutch interpretation and implementation of the European Union Habitats and Birds Directives by investigating the practices of delineation of protected areas. These directives provide a legislative framework for the designation of protected sites as well as for decision making about social and economic activities that might have negative effects on the conservation objectives. The formal boundaries of the protected area can have legal, political, and economic consequences and are therefore the subject of much debate. Using Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory, we analyse the debates concerning delineation and the potential for planning to reduce tensions and balance interests. It is argued that the irreducible differences between the economic, political, and legal perspectives, in combination with the Dutch path of a legalistic interpretation of EU directives, have produced a situation in which the role of planning is reduced and new forms of planning are hard to implement

Corporate governance · Economics · Law and economics · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Environmental Conservation and Management · Law