The Bristol Green Capital Partnership

An exemplar of reflexive governance for sustainable urban development?

Journal article (2020)

Authors

A. Ersoy Urban Development Management - Architecture and the Built Environment
Stephen Hall University of the West of England
Research Group
Urban Development Management (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2020 A. Ersoy, Stephen Hall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.23
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2020

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English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Management in the Built Environment

Research Group

Urban Development Management

Abstract

The theory of ‘reflexive governance’ prioritises process over outcomes and advocates participatory procedures, valorising multiple sources of knowledge, mutual learning and continuous evolution of organisational forms. Through the lens of reflexive governance, we explore the evolution of Bristol Green Capital Partnership, which, since 2008, has played a pivotal role in animating the environmental debate within Bristol, especially in the European Green Capital programme (2015). We conclude that the BGCP represents a ‘bounded’ example of reflexive governance, one that exhibits advanced forms of deliberation and coproduction but, ultimately, addresses too narrow a constituency of environmental, business and green activist interests.

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