Social Network Analysis

Sustainable Development Goals

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides access to information on a variety of topics related to the environment and strives to inform citizens of health risks. The EPA also has an extensive library network that consists of 26 libraries throughout the United States, which provide access to a plethora of information to EPA employees, scientists, and researchers. The EPA implemented a reorganization project to digitize their materials so they would be more accessible to a wider range of users, but this plan was drastically accelerated when the EPA was threatened with a budget cut. It chose to close and reduce the hours and services of some of their libraries. As a result, the agency was accused of denying users the “right to know” by making information unavailable, not providing an adequate strategic plan, and discarding vital materials. This case study explores the background of the digitization project, the practices implemented, and the critiques of the project.

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The Environmental Protection Agency

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Abstract Information is a source of power in the planning process. This article begins by assessing five perspectives of the planner's use of information: those of the technician, the incremental pragmatist, the liberal advocate, the structuralist, and the “progressive.” Then several types of misinformation (inevitable or unnecessary, ad hoc or systematic) are distinguished in a reformulation of bounded rationality in planning, and practical responses by planning staff are identified. The role and ethics of planners acting as sources of misinformation are considered. In practice planners work in the face of power manifest as the social and political (mis)-man-agement of citizens' knowledge, consent, trust, and attention. Seeking to enable planners to anticipate and counteract sources of misinformation threatening public serving, democratic planning processes, the article clarifies a practical and politically sensitive form of “progressive” planning practice.

Planning in the Face of Power.

Constructing the Countryside

Regulating the new rural spaces: the uneven development of land

List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations Preface Food and the State, The State of Food 6L Chapter 1: Introduction Section 1 Concepts and framework Chapter 2 Food policy and regulation Chapter 3 Restructuring and retailing Chapter 4 Citizenship, consumption and food rights Section 2 National strategies Chapter 5 Food consumers: the limits of formal and collective representaion Chapter 6 The retailers: the emergence of retailer-led food governance Chapter 7 Evolving models of food regulation Section 3 Local strategies Chapter 8 Local retail-consumption spaces and hierarchies Chapter 9 The nationalisation of food regulation: coping with space Chapter 10 The local regulatory interface: enforcement practice on the ground Chapter 11 Conculsions: retailing, regulation and consumption Appendix: The social research methods employed in the study. Bibliography

Consuming Interests: The Social Provision of Foods

Policy-makers are increasingly interested in the wider ramifications of sporting
events, including the environmental impacts of event visitation. This paper demonstrates how
two separate though related methodologies were used to inform conclusions on the economic and
environmental impacts related to event visitation. The approaches used to assess the case event
were environmental inputâ€“output tables and ecological footprint analysis. Combining these tools
provided valuable insights into a series of economic and environmental impacts, together with an
appreciation of the global significance of average visitor consumption patterns associated with a
high profile event, the 2004 Football Association (FA) Cup Final. The paper demonstrates how
these tools can be used to provide valuable intelligence for policy-makers.

Assessing the Environmental Consequences of Major Sporting Events: The 2003-04 FA Cup Final

Environmental impacts of food production and consumption: a report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Manchester Business School

Andrew Flynn

Papers

Constructing the Countryside

Regulating the new rural spaces: the uneven development of land

Consuming Interests: The Social Provision of Foods

Assessing the Environmental Consequences of Major Sporting Events: The 2003-04 FA Cup Final

Environmental impacts of food production and consumption: a report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by Manchester Business School