Sprawl in Taipei’s peri-urban zone: Responses to spatial planning and implications for adapting global environmental change

Assessing the changes in land use and ecosystem services in Changzhou municipality, Peoples’ Republic of China, 1991–2006

“…With the acceleration of urbanization that has occurred during the past century, the increasing demand for built-up area has led to increasingly serious conflicts between various types of land use, and continuous replacement of agricultural land and biodiversity hotspots with built-up land in rapid urbanizing areas, such as China, India and pan-tropical Africa (Wang et al, 2004;Seto et al, 2012). This has led to a decline of the ecosystem services provided by open space inside municipal boundaries (Bohnet and Pert, 2010;Güneralp and Seto, 2008;Huang et al, 2009;Jomaa et al, 2008;Li et al, 2010;Pauleit et al, 2005;Su et al, 2010;Sundell-Turner and Rodewald, 2008). It is important that we protect urban open space, such as parks, forest, farmland, and wetlands.…”

The Environmental Impacts of Sprawl: Emergent Themes from the Past Decade of Planning Research

“…Sarvestani et al [27] use remotely sensed imagery and GIS to quantify and map the spatial dispersion of Shiraz, Iran from 1976 to 2005. Overall, the literature addressing land resource impacts from both developed and developing countries are comparable in their methodologies with remote sensing and GIS tending to play a prominent role [3,17,18,20,27,37,51,55,63].…”

“…Maruani and Amit-Cohen [53] focus specifically on Tel Aviv and also argue that large amount of public land ownership in Israel (93%) is ideally suited for strong environmental protection policies through land management regulations. Sprawl has also been linked to habitat loss [3,20,51], but primarily within the developed country context. [57] We were able to identify fewer articles from developing country contexts that focus on land resources.…”

“…In an attempt to address these limitations, many studies [22][23][24]26,28,51] advocate more proactive planning that is specifically driven by -core principles of sustainable development‖ ( [21], p. 285) as a means for mitigating the negative impacts of urban sprawl. Conceptualising urban sprawl as a pattern of development unfolding over time that is incompatible with commonly accepted characteristics of sustainable development can potentially alleviate many of the difficulties that have plagued sprawl research, bridging the idiosyncrasies of growth across national contexts and alleviating the need to articulate a definition of sprawl that works everywhere.…”

“…Haase and Nuissl [48] focus primarily on the impact of sprawl on water resources, but also conclude that -the environmental dimension of urban sprawl is connected to the societal sphere‖ (p. 11) and that opposition to sprawl in Leipzig is driven by a variety of concerns (e.g., NIMBY, social exclusion) that extend beyond its environmental consequences. Huang et al [51] mention both globalisation and -global environmental change‖ as key drivers of the sprawling development that has threatened agricultural land and ecological functions in the northern region of Taiwan. Finally, Garcia and Riera [29], Barbour and Deakin [42], Bart [22], Tiwari et al [62], and La Greca et al [24] are all examples of articles that situate themselves firmly within the climate change conversation.…”