The challenge of Democratic participation in the community development process

McKinlay, Peter

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“…Community visioning is a citizen-based planning process, whereby an issue is defined by diverse members of a community, community assets are identified, a desired future is determined, and an action plan to achieve this future is developed [3]. It is increasingly used as a community development technique; for example, to encourage more participatory democratic processes in community planning and development [4], to address urban deterioration in Northern Ireland [5], and in local area planning on the Gold Coast in Australia [2]. As Lachapelle, Emery and Hays [3: 178] note, the However, in democracies, obtaining public consent for development of any kind is challenging.…”

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Conceptualizing a social sustainability framework for energy infrastructure decisions

Whitton

Parry

Akiyoshi

et al. 2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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a b s t r a c tThe concept of social sustainability is discussed in a wide range of literatures, from urban planning to international development. Authors agree a notion of social sustainability is difficult to define, comprising numerous component parts (criteria), such as community cohesion, human wellbeing, effective dialogue and the access that citizens have to those that make important decisions on their behalf. The definition and measurement of these criteria and the role of social sustainability in energy decision making is a contentious issue. We argue that a community led, asset based approach is required to achieve any sense of how social sustainability can be defined in a community setting within the context of energy developments. We propose a conceptual framework based on a process of community group prioritization and visioning. Our earlier research on public participation and the role of dialogue for nuclear energy development in the UK, US and Japan is used to demonstrate barriers to be overcome if our systemic model of social sustainability is to become a reality. We highlight the importance of fairness and justice, place based approaches and socio-energy systems, concluding that these are necessary to promote a community and institutional awareness of social sustainability for large energy developments.

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Conceptualizing a social sustainability framework for energy infrastructure decisions

Whitton

Parry

Akiyoshi

et al. 2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…'Community planning contains the seeds of a fundamental change in the ways of working at a local level' (IdeA, n.d.). CP in Scotland has developed in parallel to and shares many features with similar local governance reforms elsewhere in the UK, and the Scottish experience is relevant both to these and comparable developments outside the UK (McKinlay, 2006). These parallel reforms include developing joint local decision-making and policy-making processes, delivering 'seamless' and customer-centred public services; debates over new localism and 'double devolution'; the duties of local authority councillors, the role of the voluntary, community and private sectors in local governance, and other measures contained in the Local Government and Public Involvement Bill in England.…”

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Dilemmas of Community Planning

Sinclair

2008

Public Policy and Administration

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Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) are a central feature of a programme of local government modernization and public service reform in Scotland. CPPs are intended to ensure that local authorities, other local public agencies, the voluntary, community and private sectors develop a shared vision for their area and work in partnership to implement this. CPPs therefore have much in common with similar initiatives in other parts of the UK, such as communities strategies, Local Strategic Partnerships, and proposals contained in the 2007 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill in England. This article discusses how the development of CPPs relates to devolution in Scotland. It identifies systemic dilemmas, if not contradictions, encountered in implementing community planning in Scotland. Tensions exist reconciling partnership working with local authority leadership; between community planning as an additional or core duty of public agencies; between community engagement and the practical demands of policy making; and between central government direction and local partnership autonomy.

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“…Major changes to organisational culture and processes within local government were also required to support participatory processes (McKinley, 2006) and there was evidence of small reworkings in this regard.…”

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Social Networking as a Development Tool: A Critical Reflection

Scott¹,

Liew²

2012

Urban Studies

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The convergence of community development and participatory democracy philosophies and practices supports social networking as a key tool to address urban social issues. The proliferation of formalised social networks is examined here to provide a New Zealand example of global trends towards fostering 'social capital' to address urban social problems. Social networking is situated in a participatory governance context and critiques of neo-liberalism and Bourdieu's formulation of social capital are used to consider divergent and often conflicting expectations and practices of networking. Ethnographic data are used to demonstrate that, for some ethnic minority groupings, perverse economic incentives meant that it was more advantageous to maintain a marginalised position rather than to participate in 'community' networks. Evidence of increasing levels of multiscale collaboration is qualified by such exclusions of some sectors of community and the continuation of strategic agendas developed without community input.

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The challenge of Democratic participation in the community development process

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Conceptualizing a social sustainability framework for energy infrastructure decisions

Conceptualizing a social sustainability framework for energy infrastructure decisions

Dilemmas of Community Planning

Social Networking as a Development Tool: A Critical Reflection

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