Conflict around wind farm development has stimulated interest in 'community benefits' - the provision of financial or material benefits by the developers to the area affected by these facilities. By and large, both policy makers and researchers have couched the rationale for community benefits...

There is a growing realisation that agriculture is a central mechanism for delivering sustainable rural development in Europe. However, agro-industrial and postproductivist logics and dynamics have largely tended to marginalise its significance. In this paper we explore some of the conceptual...

MARSDEN T. and BRISTOW G. (2000) Progressing integrated rural development: a framework for assessing the integrative potential of sectoral policies, Reg. Studies 34 , 455-469. This paper reports on the development of a methodology for assessing how sectoral policies work to progress wider rural...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper presents the findings of research which examined the impacts of a programme of ethics regulation introduced in England in the year 2000 (the `ethical framework'), which was intended to improve the conduct of elected local councillors. We found that the ethical framework had...

Proponents of ecosystem services approaches to assessment claim that it will ensure the environment is ‘properly valued’ in decision making. Analysts seeking to understand the likelihood of this could usefully reexamine previous attempts to deploy novel assessment processes in land-use...

This paper assesses how reforms being introduced in England by the May 2010 Coalition government may affect the capacity of the planning system to promote sustainability. Although moves towards decentralization may allow more innovative local responses to environmental challenges than seemed...

This paper applies insights from actor-network theory to extend our understanding of the influence of evaluation techniques in decision making. Rather than assuming that evaluation is influential because of the intrinsic methodological veracity of the technique—that is, because it measures...