Dissecting the politics of scale in watershed-based planning

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ID21600522
AuthorsDan Milz (0000-0002-8108-7800, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume65
Issue12
Pages2214-2236
Publication date2022-10-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Environmental Planning and Management (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-0568 • E-ISSN: 1360-0559
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09640568.2021.1968808
OpenAlexW3200008631
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited36

This paper explores how spatial judgments impacted planning and policy-making by studying how stakeholders on Cape Cod, Massachusetts considered cross-scale relationships between local, regional, and state jurisdictions and hydro-geologically defined watersheds. Analysis of video data from participatory planning workshops illustrates how these judgments were made as stakeholders developed a regional wastewater management plan. Detailed analysis of their deliberations illustrates the complex and dynamic nature of their scalar judgements as they addressed mismatches between watersheds and towns. Findings illustrate how their judgments were part of the process that led to the development of innovative policy tools for collective action that embraced, rather than erased, mismatches. This paper also demonstrates the application of spatial judgments of non-expert stakeholders as they made plans and proposed actions for a complex social-ecological system

Action plan · Citizen journalism · Collective action · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Management · Marine spatial planning · Participatory planning · Political science · Politics · Spatial planning · Watershed · Computer Science · Law · Rural development and sustainability · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Urban Planning and Governance

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