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This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impacts on local communities and climate change. The authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to flying, laying the ground for a more sustainable future.

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Introduction: Problematising the Dilemmas of UK Airport Expansion: Puzzles and Research Strategies 1. Depoliticisation, Discourse and Policy Hegemony 2. Governing by Numbers: Fantasies of Forecasting, Predict and Provide, and the Technologies of Government 3. The Anatomy of an Expert Commission: Howard Davies, Rhetorical Reframing and the Performance of Leadership 4. Repoliticising Aviation Policy: Law, Planning and Persistent Activism 5. Extreme Turbulence: Problematisations, Multiple Crises and New Demands 6. ‘What if…?’ A Manifesto for the Green Transformation of Aviation Conclusion: Staying Grounded

Contesting Aviation Expansion

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 31 May 2023
      ISBN-13 9781447344285
      978-1447344285
      ISBN-10 1447344286
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impacts on local communities and climate change. The authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to flying, laying the ground for a more sustainable future.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Problematising the Dilemmas of UK Airport Expansion: Puzzles and Research Strategies 1. Depoliticisation, Discourse and Policy Hegemony 2. Governing by Numbers: Fantasies of Forecasting, Predict and Provide, and the Technologies of Government 3. The Anatomy of an Expert Commission: Howard Davies, Rhetorical Reframing and the Performance of Leadership 4. Repoliticising Aviation Policy: Law, Planning and Persistent Activism 5. Extreme Turbulence: Problematisations, Multiple Crises and New Demands 6. ‘What if…?’ A Manifesto for the Green Transformation of Aviation Conclusion: Staying Grounded

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