Research Profile
Dr Richard Cowell
Selected Publications
On planning and sustainability:
Cowell R 2012 ‘Greenest government ever? Planning and sustainability after the May 2010 coalition government’, Planning Practice and Research 27(4), in press.
Cowell R 2012 ‘Sustainability and Planning’ in S E Jørgensen (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Environmental Management, Taylor and Francis (forthcoming).
Cowell R and Owens S 2011 ‘Revisiting … Governing space: planning reform and the politics of sustainability’, Environment and Planning ‘C’, Government and Policy 28 , 952-957.
Owens S and Cowell R 2010 Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process, 2nd Edition, Routledge, London.
Collins A, Cowell R and Flynn A 2009 ‘Evaluation and environmental governance: the institutionalisation of ecological footprinting’, Environment and Planning ‘A’ 41, 1707-1725.
Cowell, R., Unalan, D. 2009, Europeanization, Strategic Environmental assessment and the Impacts on Environmental Governance, Environmental Policy and Governance, vol. 19, 32-43, ISSN 1756-9338.
Cowell, R. and Unalan, D., 2009, Adoption of the EU SEA Directive in Turkey, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 29, 243-251, ISSN 0195-9255.
On renewable energy:
Cowell R, Bristow G and Munday M 2011 ‘Acceptance, acceptability and environmental justice – the role of community benefits in wind farm development’, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 54(4), 539-557, doi:10.1080/09640568.2010.521047.
Munday M, Bristow G and Cowell R 2011 ‘Wind farms in rural areas: how far do community benefits from wind farms represent a local economic development opportunity?’ Journal of Rural Studies 27, 1-12.
Cowell R (2011) ‘Environmental sustainability of, by and for Rural Wales’, in Milbourne P (ed.) Rural Wales in the 21st Century. Society, Economy and Environment, University of Wales Press: Cardiff, pp.273-300.
Cowell R 2010 ‘Wind power, landscape and strategic spatial planning - the construction of “acceptable locations” in Wales’, Land Use Policy, 27(2), 222-232.
Cowell, R., Ellis, E., Warren, C., Strachan, P. and Szarka, J., 2009, Expanding Wind Power: A Problem of Planning, or of Perception?, Planning Theory and Practice, vol. 10 no. 4, 521-547, ISSN 1464-9357
Cowell R, Bristow G, Munday M and Strachan P 2008 Wind Farm Development in Wales: Assessing the Community Benefits, a research project for the Welsh Assembly Government, Cardiff.
Cowell R 2007 ‘Wind power and “the planning problem”: the experience of Wales’, European Environment 17(5), 291-306.
On ethics regulation and public trust:
Cowell R, Downe J and Morgan K 2011 ‘The ethical framework for local government in England – is it having any effect and why?’ Public Management Review 13(3), 433-457.
Cowell R, Downe J, Martin S and Chen A 2011 ‘Public confidence and public services: it matters what you measure’, Policy and Politics (accepted for publication 27.10.10; in press 09.12.10).
Andrews R, Cowell R and Downe J (2011) ‘Promoting civic culture by supporting citizenship – what difference can local government make?’, Public Administration 89(2), 595-610 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01875.x
Andrews R, Cowell R, Downe J, Martin S and Turner D 2008 ‘Supporting effective citizenship in local government: engaging, educating and empowering local citizens’ Local Government Studies 34(4), 489-507.
Andrews R, Cowell R and Downe J 2008 ‘Support for Active Citizenship and Public Service Performance: An Empirical Analysis of English Local Authorities’, Policy and Politics 36(2), 227-245.