A European Programme for Skills to Deliver Sustainable Communities: Recent Steps Towards Developing a Discourse

Kevin Thomas and Steve Littlewood

European Planning Studies, 2010, vol. 18, issue 3, 467-484

Abstract: Arguments about the need to improve “skills for sustainable communities” have emerged recently in the context of debates around spatial and territorial polices for the EU. This debate has been driven by the UK government as part of its contribution to framing debates around what should follow on from the European Spatial Development Perspective. A programme to shape spatial policy discourse around a skills agenda within EU policy circles was mounted, with considerable UK government support, and this paper explores the success of this attempt, using concepts familiar within environmental policy discourse analysis. We suggest that the attempt met with some success, but achieved a lower level of policy influence than was hoped for, and the paper goes on to examine the reasons for this.

Date: 2010
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