Author: Mendes, Wendy

Source: Space and Polity, Volume 11, Number 1, April 2007 , pp. 95-119(25)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The widespread adoption of sustainability agendas in urban contexts has opened a now well-recognised 'policy space' linking sustainability principles with urban development and local politics. Central to these enquiries is a focus on the need to spatialise debates on sustainable urban development by examining the scales at which locally grounded tensions are resolved. Using a case study set in the City of Vancouver, Canada, this article shows how the adoption of one specific sustainability policy - food policy - was enabled by specific reframings of the scale at which it was assumed to be most appropriately situated, and shows how new strategies for co-ordinating governance at and between scales were deployed.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562570701406683

Publication date: 2007-04-01

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