Combining discourse analyses to enrich theory: The case of local land-use policies in South Eastern France

Laurence Delattre, Olivier Chanel, Cecile Livenais and Claude Napoléone

Ecological Economics, 2015, vol. 113, issue C, 60-75

Abstract: Local land-use policies are determined by a wide range of considerations that do not always favor open-space preservation. To identify them, a field study was undertaken in South Eastern France via semi-directive interviews with people responsible for municipal land-use policies. We use it to compare a qualitative (i.e. manual) discourse analysis with two quantitative (i.e. computer-assisted) analyses and combine them to identify the drivers of land-use policies, especially with regard to urban sprawl. Performing all three analyses allows us to switch back and forth between a local empirical approach and large-scale modeling and methods. This should enrich micro-economic models by clarifying more complex local features, like unbalanced relationships with neighboring municipalities or why “agriculture” should be considered as an independent interest group.

Keywords: Qualitative discourse analysis; Quantitative textual analysis; ALCESTE; Similarity analysis; IRaMuTeQ; Land-use policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.02.025

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