Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms, Methods, and Effects

Coordinators

• Emmanuel Combet, member of the Energy and Prosperity Chair
• Charlotte Halpern, research fellow at Sciences Po, Center for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and co-director of the Environmental Policy division of LIEPP
• Antonin Pottier, lecturer at EHESS, researcher at the International Research Center for Environment and Development (CIRED, Paris), and member of the Energy and Prosperity Chair.

Project presentation

In the context of renewed interest in planning, the LIEPP's Environmental Policy Research Group is setting up a study group on the use, form, method, and effects of planning in a comparative and multidisciplinary approach. This project has several objectives: to analyze the renewed interest in comprehensive planning, in France and beyond, in order to clarify its meaning, usefulness, and conditions of possibility in the context of the 21st century; to report on the practical implementation, embodied by one or more dedicated bodies within the state's political and administrative apparatus, of new resources, expertise, and tools, as well as concrete achievements that question the role of political regulations in driving change; and finally, to make sense of the implications for all actors at the time of implementation, particularly their transformative scope. The work program consists of a series of small seminars. Bringing together practitioners and researchers, it is informed by contributions from the LIEPP to consolidate the state of knowledge and progress in thinking.

This project is being carried out with financial support from ADEME for a period of 18 months.

Contact: livia.kalil@sciencespo.fr