Taming expansive land use dynamics – Sustainable land use regulation and urban sprawl in a comparative perspective

Bovet, Jana; Reese, Moritz; Köck, Wolfgang

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.03.024

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“…These systems set different priorities and to some extent use different instruments [70]. Comparing their effectiveness with regard to reducing the adverse ecological, economic, and social effects of land take bears great potential for mutual learning from best-practice examples in a multitude of different political, geographic, and cultural contexts [71] and hence for more efficient spatial governance nationally and worldwide. All this requires reliable and comparable information on how and when land is developed for settlement-and infrastructure purposes, which in turn hinges on a harmonized application of key concepts.…”

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Land Consumption and Land Take: Enhancing Conceptual Clarity for Evaluating Spatial Governance in the EU Context

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Rapid expansion of settlements and related infrastructures is a global trend that comes with severe environmental, economic, and social costs. Steering urbanization toward well-balanced compactness is thus acknowledged as an important strategic orientation in UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG-11) via the SDG-indicator “Ratio of land consumption rate to population growth rate.” The EU’s simultaneous commitment to being “a frontrunner in implementing […] the SDGs” and to striving for “no net land take until 2050” calls for relating the concepts of land consumption and land take to each other. Drawing on an EU-centred questionnaire study, a focus group and a literature review, we scrutinize definitions of land consumption and land take, seeking to show how they are interrelated, and questioning the comparability of respective indicators. We argue that conceptual clarifications and a bridging of the two notions are much needed, and that the precision required for definitions and applications is context-dependent. While approximate understandings may suffice for general communication and dissemination objectives, accurate and consistent interpretations of the discussed concepts seem indispensable for monitoring and reporting purposes. We propose ways of addressing existing ambiguities and suggest prioritizing the term land take in the EU context. Thereby, we aim to enhance conceptual clarity around land consumption and land take—a precondition for solidly informing respective policies and decisions.

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“…In other words, if you have an intention and good idea for establishing a territory or a state, there are many prerequisites and opportunities for doing it by now [18]. However, of course, it is necessary to reckon with the existing legal norms and regulations [19].…”

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Territory as a Feature of the State in Terms of Modern Public Relations Development

NikolaevichKoval¹,

Vasilev²,

Zenin³

2019

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The rapid development of social relations is currently leading to the transformation of many traditional legal tenets. Thus, public relations appear in the virtual space, cities can play a more significant role than the nation-state itself, and the design of the construction is often more expensive than the process of construction. These and many other things bring about the circumstances when the state, having its sovereignty, does not primarily take into account its territory to protect its own interests, as well as the emergence of new legal relations occurs without the usual binding to the territory. The purpose of this study is to assess the viability of the territory as one of the key characteristics of the state, taking into account the transformation of social relations under the modern conditions. The research attempts to understand the territory as a feature of the state with the latest trends in the development of social relations. To achieve this goal, modern scientific literature on the issue was analyzed to provide the assessment of the experience of new territory formation establishing new public relations and virtual space. It also provides an analysis of cross-border relations, carried out by both individuals and large commercial organizations. In order to develop an adequate legal doctrine, the methods of implementing the organizational and commercial activities of some organizations were investigated.

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“…We apply the regional governance capacities concept to the case of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. In Switzerland, urban sprawl and limited space for agricultural land and built-up areas due to the Alps have fostered the emergence of spatial planning instruments that are strongly influenced by the introduction of Switzerland's national spatial planning law in 1979 (Bovet et al, 2018;Lendi, 2007). The cantonal structure plan (kantonaler Richtplan) serves as the main obligatory spatial planning instrument on the cantonal level, and both scholars and practitioners agree that this instrument can play a key role in the coordination of land-use interests and the reduction of urban sprawl (Keiner et al, 2001;Mahaim, 2014).…”

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“…The goal of this revision was to foster Switzerland's inner development and curb its sprawl. All cantons had to bindingly determine the boundaries of their building land and their arrangement within the canton in the cantonal structure plan (Bovet et al, 2018;Mahaim, 2014).…”

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Assessing the regional governance capacities of spatial planning: the case of the canton of Zurich

Kießling

Pütz

2020

Regional Studies, Regional Science

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Many countries use spatial planning instruments to coordinate interests in land use and influence land-use change. In Switzerland, the cantonal structure plan (kantonale Richtplan) serves as the main spatial planning instrument at the cantonal level. Coordinating land-use interests and influencing land-use change requires 'regional governance capacities'. This paper presents an analytical concept of regional governance capacities in spatial planning using the policy arrangement approach and drawing from the spatial planning implementation and evaluation literature. The canton of Zurich, with its embedded cases on the regional and local levels, serves as the case study for testing the analytical concept. Empirical evidence from qualitative interviews, observations and document analyses reveals a coexistence of various regional governance capacities within the canton of Zurich. Whereas regional governance capacities regarding the promotion of inner development in urban areas emerge as high, the results unveil mixed regional governance capacities when it comes to coordinating transport and land-use planning. To make judgements about regional governance capacities in spatial planning, it is essential to observe various spatial challenges, spatial scales and local examples.

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Taming expansive land use dynamics – Sustainable land use regulation and urban sprawl in a comparative perspective

Cited by 41 publications

References 15 publications

Land Consumption and Land Take: Enhancing Conceptual Clarity for Evaluating Spatial Governance in the EU Context

Land Consumption and Land Take: Enhancing Conceptual Clarity for Evaluating Spatial Governance in the EU Context

Territory as a Feature of the State in Terms of Modern Public Relations Development

Assessing the regional governance capacities of spatial planning: the case of the canton of Zurich

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