The influence of institutional design on local environmental interest representation in the national polity

Jaap G. Rozema

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2015, vol. 58, issue 10, 1731-1748

Abstract: This article investigates structural and informal institutional design variables to account for civil society actors' views on the political representation of local environmental interests in the national polity. It does so by linking literature on institutional design and place-based environmental advocacy to a case of large scale infrastructure development in the national interest. The case study concerns the proposal for a national high speed rail network ("HS2") in the United Kingdom, which is heavily opposed locally based on its expected adverse impacts. Through fieldwork research on protest against HS2 in an area of high landscape value, it has been found that local actors perceived specific institutions to structurally under-represent interests associated with environmental conservation, compounded further by an informal style of doing politics. The paper recommends that the environmental management and planning literature turns to institutional explanations to make insightful the dynamics of defending the local interest in the national sphere.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2014.946479

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