Abstract
Technically, those who participate in planning for sustainable development should understand what causes environmental degradation, because environmental degradation equates to the reverse of sustainable development. But in a democratic planning process what members of the public take to be the causes of environmental degradation matters as much as what experts say the causes really are. A study was therefore conducted to determine how laypersons involved in planning explain environmental degradation. The main method was content analysis of written submissions to public hearings of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Round Table of the Lands for Life sustainable land use planning process in Ontario, Canada. Results indicate that members of the Lands for Life public, decision-makers, and planners all have an inadequate appreciation of the causes of environmental degradation.
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