A marriage of inconvenience
The coupling of spatial planning to European environmental policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21601569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joost Tennekes (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, the Netherlands, corresponding author), David Evers (0000-0002-6794-1062, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague, the Netherlands) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1078-1096 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Planning Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0965-4313 • E-ISSN: 1469-5944 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09654313.2023.2251527 |
| OpenAlex | W4386318852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 53 |
For decades, the European Union has affected spatial planning in the member states through its environmental policies. To investigate the mechanism by which EU policy becomes joined up to spatial planning, we invoke the concept of ‘coupling’ from systems and organizational science. We show that coupling is established not only at the EU policymaking level (e.g. within a directive’s text), but also during implementation and enforcement. Consequently, it is possible to actively ‘manage’ coupling either by enhancing its flexibility on paper or by limiting its activation in practice. Drawing on three case studies in the Netherlands, we show that various (de)coupling strategies can be applied, but none are completely satisfactory or risk-free
Business · Directive · Economic system · Economics · Enforcement · Environmental planning · European union · Geography · International trade · Limiting · Management · Political science · Public economics · Spatial planning · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Policy and Administration Research · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Loosely Coupled Systems
Institutional Contradictions, Praxis, and Institutional Change
The Water Framework Directive
Transforming spatial planning policy in Mediterranean countries
Spatial Planning and Policy Integration
Biodiversity, road transport and urban planning
Development of a framework to assist the integration of environmental, social and economic issues in spatial planning
Episodes of Europeanization of Dutch national spatial planning
Consensus-building across Difficult Divisions
A New Way to Compare Horizontal Connections of Policy Sectors
The Europeanization of Public Policies
The European Union and the autonomy of sub-national authorities
Effects of the European Union on Sub‐National Decision‐Making
Between the rule of law and the quest for control
Third-party appeal rights and the regulatory state
Window on the Netherlands
Integrated, adaptive and participatory spatial planning
Globalizing’ regional development
Strategic Coupling and Regional Development in Resource Economies
How Europe hits home? The impact of European Union policies on territorial governance and spatial planning
Non-conformable, partial and conformable transposition
Lost in Translation or Full Steam Ahead
Surviving the Deadline
Opposition through the back door in the transposition of EU directives
Enabling the Contextualization of Legal Rules in Responsive Strategies to Climate Change
Europeanizing Territoriality-Towards Soft Spaces
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |