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Political Economy of Participatory Spatial Planning

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Avenues to reduce inequalities that exist in the planning process can be created through participation (Parker et al. 2017). This transfers power to locals, giving them authority over the formulation and implementation of plans (Vigar et al. 2017). Participatory spatial planning refers to the incorporation of diverse perspectives in the development of territorial domains in order to produce certain desired outcomes. The process involves actors or stakeholders with vested interests in the different policy areas that must be executed (Nadin et al. 2020). Moreover, it entails the element of accounting for the needs of different communities or social groups in allocation of resources (Fenster and Misgav 2014). The concept is immanent in terms of the development discourse at different spatial scales, i.e. global, national, regional, and local.

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    Eric Yankson & Esleen Guriras

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

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Yankson, E., Guriras, E. (2021). Political Economy of Participatory Spatial Planning. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Reduced Inequalities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71060-0_112-1

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