Boundary Work: Knowledge, Policy, and the Urban Environment

Susan Owens, Judith Petts and Harriet Bulkeley
Additional contact information
Susan Owens: Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, England
Judith Petts: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
Harriet Bulkeley: Department of Geography, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, England

Environment and Planning C, 2006, vol. 24, issue 5, 633-643

Abstract: This paper explores the relations between different forms of knowledge and urban environmental policy arenas. It briefly considers the evolution of the urban environmental agenda and growing interest in questions of knowledge transfer. It then explores reasons for an apparent knowledge – policy ‘gap’, including familiar explanations, such as the problems of communicating research findings, as well as those based on more subtle and complex interpretations of both knowledge and policy processes. It concludes with some proposals for thinking about the boundary between knowledge and policy and constructive ways to enhance the sustainable urban environment agenda. The paper introduces the other contributions in this theme issue—concerned with diverse aspects of knowledge transfer in the context of urban environments—and draws upon insights from a seminar series at which these papers were first presented.

Date: 2006
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/c0606j (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:envirc:v:24:y:2006:i:5:p:633-643

DOI: 10.1068/c0606j

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Environment and Planning C
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().