Reviewing rescaling Strengthening the case for environmental considerations

This article is concerned with the environmental dimensions of rescaling. Specifically, it explores debates around centralization and decentralization, introduces a key distinction between rescaling to jurisdictional spaces and ecosystem spaces, and suggests three future research trajectories: (1) a...

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Published inProgress in human geography Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 3 - 25
Main Authors Cohen, Alice, McCarthy, James
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2015
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Decentralization
Decision making
Ecosystems
Environmental policy
Geodemographics
Human geography
Neoliberalism
Ontology
State government
Trends
Watersheds
scale
rescaling
neoliberalism
decentralization
environmental governance
centralization
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Summary:This article is concerned with the environmental dimensions of rescaling. Specifically, it explores debates around centralization and decentralization, introduces a key distinction between rescaling to jurisdictional spaces and ecosystem spaces, and suggests three future research trajectories: (1) analytical clarification of the differences between rescaling to natural versus jurisdictional scales; (2) examination of rescaling in light of its attendant process of creating new objects of governance; and (3) investigation of rescaling processes through a temporal lens, with the suggestion that rescaled environmental governance may be the site of some of the first and last manifestations of neoliberal governance reforms.
ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/0309132514521483