Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act

Carter, Isabelle and MacKillop, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3345-7499 2023. Can we promote plural local pathways to sustainable development? Insights from the implementation of Wales’s Future Generations Act. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 25 (5) , pp. 554-569. 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2221182

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper examines the implementation of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, the first and only piece of legislation to codify the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in law. The paper provides empirical analysis of the implementation of this legislation based on 16 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders across Wales. The analysis explores whether the Act can deliver spatial justice in Wales through its novel and place-based approach to sustainable development. We examine how the Act has been implemented at different spatial scales – the local, the regional and the national – and how the differences in the way it is interpreted by actors at these different levels influences the extent to which spatial justice is realised in its implementation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics) Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1523-908X
Funders:	ESRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	29 June 2023
Date of Acceptance:	28 May 2023
Last Modified:	05 Oct 2023 17:14
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/160630

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