Environmental policy under New Labour

TY - JOUR

T1 - Environmental policy under New Labour

AU - Jackson, T.

N1 - Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2010/8/1

Y1 - 2010/8/1

N2 - New Labour's efforts to shape development practice to incorporate sustainable precepts and deliver low carbon outcomes are reviewed. A failure to promote integrated environmental policies within government and to subject these to statutory environmental assessment has severely constrained the realisation of sustainable development pathways. Climate change policy initiatives have generated a greater degree of cross-departmental commitment. Yet one of its short-lived initiatives, the Infrastructure Planning Commission, would have struggled to deliver a low carbon economy, because its deliberations were exempt from statutory forms of environmental assessment that quantify the carbon footprints of alternative development scenarios.

AB - New Labour's efforts to shape development practice to incorporate sustainable precepts and deliver low carbon outcomes are reviewed. A failure to promote integrated environmental policies within government and to subject these to statutory environmental assessment has severely constrained the realisation of sustainable development pathways. Climate change policy initiatives have generated a greater degree of cross-departmental commitment. Yet one of its short-lived initiatives, the Infrastructure Planning Commission, would have struggled to deliver a low carbon economy, because its deliberations were exempt from statutory forms of environmental assessment that quantify the carbon footprints of alternative development scenarios.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/78649664721

U2 - 10.1080/02690942.2010.525990

DO - 10.1080/02690942.2010.525990

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:78649664721

SN - 0269-0942

VL - 25

SP - 510

EP - 522

JO - Local Economy

JF - Local Economy

IS - 5

ER -