Discursive and Institutional Barriers to Urban Environmental Sustainability: A Comparative Study of Infrastructure Policy in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

这个研究项目将发现是什么阻碍了采用新的政策范式：？环境可持续性？通过我们在交通政策的案例研究，我们将能够解释推理的结构，连同机构和话语网络，持续影响决策者，创造障碍的范式变化。我们的工作将为公共政策，城市环境政治和生态现代化理论领域做出国际重要的理论贡献。在实践层面上，这项工作将为城市规划提供新的分析工具和概念，从而改善政策制定和执行。

This research project will discover what stands in the way of adoption of a new policy paradigm: ?environmental sustainability?. Through our case studies in transport policy we will be able to explain how structures of reasoning, together with institutions and discursive networks, persistently influence decision makers, creating barriers to paradigmatic change. Our work will make an internationally important theoretical contribution to the field of public policy, urban environmental politics and the theory of ecological modernisation. On a practical level the work will provide new analytical tools and concepts for urban planning, enabling improvement to policy making and implementation.