Land use policy and community strategy. Factors enabling and hampering integrated local strategy in Alberta, Canada

Assche, Kristof Van; Gruezmacher, Mónica; Summers, Bob; Culling, Joshua; Gajjar, Shaival; Granzow, Michael; Lowerre, Andrew; Deacon, Leith; Candlish, Jared; Jamwal, Abhimanyu

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106101

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“…As many of these challenges have been acknowledged and documented elsewhere (e.g., Banack, 2016;Epp, 2012;Van Assche et al, 2017), this paper draws from the pragmatic municipalism and urban austerity literatures. Following the financial crises of 2007-2008, a broadly austerity-based narrative emerged in many countries grounded in top-down drivers from national and regional governments, but also as a response to populist movements and, more recently, explicitly populist governments (as in Alberta and Ontario).…”

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Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21^st‐century rural Alberta

Hällström

2023

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Rural development in Alberta is a long‐standing challenge, with local communities and economies often stuck between economic cycles, fiscal largesse from the Provincial Government, and a historical pattern of conservative leadership that seeks to leave the private sector unimpeded. As a result, many rural communities now face significant economic, social, political, and ecological challenges that, while not unique to Alberta, are marked by only modest innovation and a tendency to return to previous developmental initiatives. This paper is focused upon identifying the common challenges facing municipal government in the province, but also accounting for the inertial dynamics within municipal politics. Drawing from qualitative data collected from rural municipalities, it seeks to situate contemporary adaptive economic strategies and initiatives within the dominant public ideology of the province. This paper argues that while reform initiatives undertaken in the province broadly align with pragmatic municipalism as a necessary response to decades of neoliberal austerity and inertia, that pragmatism is tempered by a provincial rationality that limits, rather than enhances, the likelihood of meaningful change. This rationality, and its effects, are explained through four fallacies: home rule, agency, the Golden Age, and homogeneity.

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Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21^st‐century rural Alberta

Hällström

2023

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Connotation, status, and governance of land ecological security in China’s new urbanization: recent advances and future prospects

Zhang,

Han,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Searching for stable electricity in Monrovia: Co-evolution of energy infrastructure and practices

Innis,

Van Assche,

Müller-Mahn

2024

Energy Policy

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Land use policy and community strategy. Factors enabling and hampering integrated local strategy in Alberta, Canada

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21^st‐century rural Alberta

Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21^st‐century rural Alberta

Connotation, status, and governance of land ecological security in China’s new urbanization: recent advances and future prospects

Searching for stable electricity in Monrovia: Co-evolution of energy infrastructure and practices

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Land use policy and community strategy. Factors enabling and hampering integrated local strategy in Alberta, Canada

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Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21st‐century rural Alberta

Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21st‐century rural Alberta

Connotation, status, and governance of land ecological security in China’s new urbanization: recent advances and future prospects

Searching for stable electricity in Monrovia: Co-evolution of energy infrastructure and practices

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Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21^st‐century rural Alberta

Innovation vs inertia: Entrepreneurial governments in 21^st‐century rural Alberta