Dilemmas of Planning Practice: Ethics, Legitimacy and the Validation of Knowledge

This book provides a structured discussion of some of the basic issues to do with the nature of planning, issues which have been sharpened by changes in the context and content of planning in recent years. Planners are, increasingly, facing difficult ethical problems, are being forced to reconsider what count as appropriate knowledge and skills and have faced questioning of the very need for planning, i.e.. of the legitimacy of intervention in environmental change. The book gives practising planners with varying experiences an opportunity to discuss the way these problems have arisen in their work and strategies they have adopted to cope with them. These are incorporated into reflections and recommendations by experienced planners and academics. The book ends with suggestions for strategies for individuals and the profession in tackling these pressing issues.Healey, Patsy is the author of 'Dilemmas of Planning Practice: Ethics, Legitimacy and the Validation of Knowledge' with ISBN 9781856281737 and ISBN 1856281736.