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    Environmental values and professionalism in planning: A case study

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    1999
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    Gowdy, Andrew
    Hendler, Sue
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    This paper explores the following questions: What values do planners have regarding the environment, and how might these values help define their profession by having a presence in planning codes? Theories of environmental ethics are reviewed, and the results of a mail-out survey to planners in Ottawa, Ontario indicate which perspectives these planners appear to prefer. The results support the intuitively attractive position that planners are generally pro-environment. They tend to value a number of elements and attributes of nature. Planners generally seem to value ecosystems and ecosystemic properties more than other aspects of the environment, including human interest. This can be seen as intrinsic or inherent value as opposed to instrumental value. Collectively, their attitudes towards the environment are suggestive of a "land ethic" perspective. Despite some contradictions and incongruities within the data, we can use such results to suggest that certain environmental values carry special weight with planners. We can then begin to apply this interpretation to professional planning codes which have often been criticized for lacking specificity in areas such as environmental consideration.
     
    Cet article porte sur les questions suivantes : Quelle importance les urbanistes accordent-ils à l'environnement ? La prise en compte de ces valeurs dans les codes d'urbanisme peut-elle contribuer à redéfinir la profession ? Les principes d'éthique en matière d'environnement ont été passés en revue et les résultats d'un sondage effectué par correspondance à Ottawa, Ontario, indiquent la position des urbanistes à cet égard. Ce sondage fait ressortir l'idée réconfortante que les urbanistes sont soucieux de la qualité de l'environnement et qu'ils sont particulièrement sensibles à certains éléments et certaines propriétés de la nature. En général, les urbanistes ont tendance à accorder plus d'importance aux écosystèmes et à leurs particularités qu'a tout autre aspect de l'environnement, y compris l'intérêt humain. Il s'agirait donc d'une valeur essentielle ou personnelle et non d'un critère accessoire. Dans l'ensemble, leur position face à l 'environnement semble relever plutôt d'une " loi du sol ". Malgré les quelques contradictions ou déviations que contiennent les données, les résultats de ce sondage nous indiquent que certains problèmes environnementaux revêtent une importance particulière aux yeux des urbanistes. Nous pouvons alors commencer à appliquer cette interprétation aux codes de l'urbanisme, auxquels on a souvent reproché de manquer de précision sur les questions d'environnement.
     
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.25316/IR-974
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    DOI: 10.25316/IR-974
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