Title: Land-use planning, permaculture and the transitivity of 'development'

Authors: Michael Hannis

Addresses: SPIRE, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK

Abstract: Land-use planning in England and Wales has been reluctant to embrace grassroots |low impact development| projects, which are often based at least in part on principles of permaculture. This reluctance, and the planning system|s concept of sustainable development, are examined against the wider global background of development discourse and politics. Development, particularly when understood as a transitive process, has routinely frustrated people|s efforts to |dwell in the land|. This has often been justified by appeal to the alleged detrimental effect of human presence on valued landscapes, and/or to a perceived imperative to make agriculture more efficient.

Keywords: land use planning; permaculture; low impact development; sustainable development; developmentality; sustainability; United Kingdom; UK; valued landscapes; agriculture.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2011.044238

International Journal of Green Economics, 2011 Vol.5 No.3, pp.269 - 284

Published online: 16 Oct 2014 *

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