China’s megaregion policy: Performance evaluation framework, empirical findings and implications for spatial polycentric governance

Su, Shiliang; Liu, Zebin; Xu, Yifan; Li, Jing; Pi, Jianhua; Wang, Min

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.014

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“…ABSL's investment, for instance, implied the emergence of a strong actor in the target region, who could mobilize financial capital, support by governmental and customary authorities, as well as technology to gain and maintain access to land in Sierra Leone. The reinforced inequalities in the ABSL case illustrate that polycentric governance with pronounced power differentials is not necessarily fair and just (Su et al 2017).…”

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Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Oberlack¹,

Boillat²,

Brönnimann³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. Recent advances in land system science and in institutional analysis provide complementary, but still largely disconnected perspectives on land use change, governance, and sustainability in social-ecological systems, which are interconnected across distance. In this paper we bring together the emerging concept of telecoupled land systems and the established concept of polycentric governance to support the analysis and the development of sustainable land governance in interconnected social-ecological systems. We operationalize the two concepts by analyzing networks of action situations in which interactions between proximate and distant actors as well as socioeconomic and ecological processes cause land use change and affect the sustainability of land systems. To illustrate this integrated approach empirically, we analyze a case of transnational biofuel investment in Sierra Leone. We identify the characteristics of, and activities in, networks of action situations that affect the sustainability of land systems related to this case. Integration of the two concepts of telecoupled land systems and polycentric governance enables analysts to identify interactions in polycentric governance systems (1) as drivers of telecoupled sustainability problems and (2) as transformative approaches to such problems. The method provides one way for linking place-based analysis of land change with process-based analysis of land governance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Oberlack¹,

Boillat²,

Brönnimann³

et al. 2018

E&S

107

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“…During the period of its economic transition, China has experienced a rapid physical expansion of urbanized territories. One of the spatial consequences of this expansion has been that the larger cities' previous monocentric and compact structure, with sparsely distributed small industrial satellite towns, has yielded to a more polycentric, if not sprawled, urban structure [14][15][16]. This may well be seen as an "organic" byproduct of industrialization, rural-urban migrations, absolute and relative growth in urban population, and the rise in national prosperity, akin to other rapidly urbanizing developing countries.…”

Section: The Land-focused Politics Of Economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Edge-Urbanization: Land Policy, Development Zones, and Urban Expansion in Tianjin

2019

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Fast-paced urban growth in China has produced a specific, transient form of urban periphery, which continuously shifts outwards as the city expands. Seeing this process as a distinctive type of (sub)urbanization, this paper encapsulates it under the notion of edge-urbanization. The paper argues that edge-urbanization in China is fueled by deliberate government policies, which seek to mobilize peripheral land for high-growth strategies. The relationships between urban expansions and spatial economic policy are analyzed more closely in the case of Tianjin. Geospatial analysis derived from satellite imagery for the period of 1980–2015 reveals the morphological and temporal dynamics of urban growth in the post-reform era. Built-up land in Tianjin has expanded 1.8 times during this period, with the dominant growth type being edge-expansion. This character of urban expansion is shown to be closely associated with government’s “project fever”—setting up development zones and new economic activity on city edge. The results demonstrate a decisive role of the state in shaping (edge) urbanization in China’s major cities.

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“…The decline of the BDI also supports this argument. As shown in Figure 11, the boundaries in many local planning areas far exceed those established by the master plan, especially in suburban areas [56][57][58][59][60][61][62].…”

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The Effectiveness of Planning Control on Urban Growth: Evidence from Hangzhou, China

Fan

Li³

et al. 2017

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Urban sprawl presents a serious challenge for sustainable urban land use. Urban planning attempts to guarantee sustainable urban development and proper use of land resources. However, a large gap usually exists between planning and actual development. This paper aims to analyze the evolutionary characteristics of urban form and the spatiotemporal dynamics of urban planning from 1964 to 2013, using the case of Hangzhou, China. We proposed a framework that included remote sensing, landscape metrics, and control effectiveness indexes. The results indicated that urban planning failed to perform effectively in Hangzhou, reflected by the uncontrolled urban sprawl during all the planning periods. The low effectiveness of planning was resulted from multiple factors, including historical economic events that made expansion unexpected, functional orientation of planning which drove fragmented suburbanization, the ineffective methods for forecasting population and land use, and the influences by the market forces. The findings deepen the understanding of the impacts of urban planning, and provide references for making rational urban management decisions and sustainable urban land management.

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China’s megaregion policy: Performance evaluation framework, empirical findings and implications for spatial polycentric governance

Cited by 61 publications

References 68 publications

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Polycentric governance in telecoupled resource systems

Edge-Urbanization: Land Policy, Development Zones, and Urban Expansion in Tianjin

The Effectiveness of Planning Control on Urban Growth: Evidence from Hangzhou, China

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