Boyle, Mark
(2003)
Scale as an ‘Active Progenitor’ in the Metamorphosis
of the Waste Management Hierarchy in Member
States: The Case of the Republic of Ireland.
European Planning Studies, 11 (4).
pp. 481-502.
ISSN 0965-4313
Abstract
In the light of the raft of legislation introduced by the European Commission since the late
1980s, waste management planning in the European Union (EU) is currently undergoing tumultuous
restructuring. At the heart of this restructuring is the requirement by member states to formulate waste
management plans that embrace the Commission’s central concept of the waste management hierarchy. This
article begins with the assertion that the grounding of the waste management hierarchy in different European
countries reflects members’ ongoing difficulties balancing supra-national environmental regulations with the
imperatives of national accumulation strategies. Central to negotiating this tightrope has been a tremendous
transformation, modification, re-jigging and re-calibration of the hierarchies of waste management planning
institutions in member states. The core argument advanced in this article is that far from being a neutral or
technical or practical side show, contemporary (re)scalings of waste management planning in Europe must be
approached as being centrally implicated in the constitution of forms of environmental controls that serve rather
than burden the interests of leading capitals. This argument is illustrated through a detailed case study of recent
scalar inventions in waste management planning in the Republic of Ireland.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Scale; Active Progenitor; Metamorphosis;
Waste Management; Hierarchy; Member
States; Republic of Ireland; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
8701 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/0965431032000080946 |
| Depositing User: |
Mark Boyle
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Aug 2017 16:00 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
European Planning Studies |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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