Combining discourse analyses to enrich theory: : The case of local land-use policies in South Eastern France

• Autores: Laurence Delattre, Olivier Chanel, Cecile Livenais, Claude Napoléone
• Localización: Ecological Economics, ISSN-e 1873-6106, Nº. 113, 2015, págs. 60-75
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Local land-use policies are determined by a wide range of considerations that do not always favor open-space preservation. To identify them, a field study was undertaken in South Eastern France via semi-directive interviews with people responsible for municipal land-use policies. We use it to compare a qualitative (i.e. manual) discourse analysis with two quantitative (i.e. computer-assisted) analyses and combine them to identify the drivers of land-use policies, especially with regard to urban sprawl. Performing all three analyses allows us to switch back and forth between a local empirical approach and large-scale modeling and methods. This should enrich micro-economic models by clarifying more complex local features, like unbalanced relationships with neighboring municipalities or why “agriculture” should be considered as an independent interest group.