What Does Sustainability Mean to City Officials?

Zeemering, Eric S.

doi:10.1177/1078087409337297

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“…This is how risky informal land occupation initiates slum development and unsustainable city growth in Africa (Ado 2008, UNHABITAT (2010. Unfortunately the planning officials' idea about the relationship between land use patterns and sustainability in risky regions is uncertain (Zeemering 2009). In addition, the study has also shown that marginal lands in Lagos are generally characterized by proximity to river channels or lagoon, smaller plot sizes, physical inaccessibility, limited infrastructures and poor environmental quality.…”

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“…Coupled with this is the disinterest of city dwellers in moving to the city suburbs, mainly the adjoining neighboring states (particularly Ogun State), to acquire residential land. The government is also interested in internally generated revenue (IGR) which compromises the issue of sustainability (Zeemering 2009). This misplacement of priority by the land operators and government increases the transactions in marginal areas uncontrollably.…”

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Marginal land use and value characterizations in Lagos: untangling the drivers and implications for sustainability

Aliu

2015

Environ Dev Sustain

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Lagos, the leading African megacity, is a coastal city located in creeks and riparian environment. In all parts of the city, transactions in marginal lands-riparian or water-logged areas-are increasingly becoming more noticeable. However, while previous studies have focused upon normal land transactions, the dynamics of land uses in marginal regions remain largely unexplained. Information on the dynamics of informal land transactions in the marginal regions of Lagos city is important for urban sustainability. This study therefore interrogates the attributes, uses, values and drivers of marginal land in Lagos using generalized linear model (GLM). Findings show that the predominant land use in marginal areas of Lagos is residential, majority of the lands are less than full plot size, close to river channels and less accessible, and the mean price ranges from NGN 3,156,908 to NGN 4,052,158. The GLM estimations show that distance to river channels/lagoon and buyer's status have more significant influence on marginal land uses and values in Lagos. These findings have significant policy and practical implications for the city's land use and sustainability. For urban and environmental sustainability, there is need to stem transactions in coastal marginal environments of Lagos for their obvious implications for climate change, flooding, erosion, sea incursion, building collapse, natural parks and public spaces, river channels and urban greening.

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Marginal land use and value characterizations in Lagos: untangling the drivers and implications for sustainability

Aliu

2015

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…In the "triple bottom line" or "three E" approach, including economic, environmental and equity dimensions of development, the ideal urban sustainable community will become green, profitable and fair, all at the same time [64]. Many suggest that the three elements can be combined through strategies and planning instruments such as eco-efficiency, fair trade and substantial coalition building efforts [7]. This can help make sure that advancement in one goal, such as land or energy development does not come at the expense of others, such as affordable housing, human health and climate change mitigation.…”

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“…A solid body of literature exists on the links between sustainability or resilience outcomes and a variety of attributes-from city size through socio-economics to multilevel governance and sustainability actions in cities (see Wu et al, this issue). This literature will be boosted by the framework for implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly SDG 11, which calls to "make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" [82], as it is mostly concerned with the extent to which local governments have and will commit to sustainability and resilience principles in their planning practices [7]. Scholars are already pointing to challenges of data availability to monitor SGD performance, in terms of issues such as indicators chosen, data sources, and level of temporal and spatial resolution [83].…”

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Urban Sustainability and Resilience: From Theory to Practice

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Urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between society and the environment, and affecting cities' sustainability and resilience in complex ways at alarming rates. Over the last decades, sustainability and resilience have become key concepts aimed at understanding existing urban dynamics and responding to the challenges of creating livable urban futures. Sustainability and resilience have also moved and are now core analytic and normative concepts for many scholars, transnational networks and urban communities of practice. Yet, even with this elevated scholarly attention, strategies for bridging between research and practice remain elusive, and efforts to understand and affect change towards more sustainable and resilient urban centers have often fallen short. This paper seeks to synthesize, from this issue's papers and other strands of literature, the knowledge, theory and practice of urban sustainability and resilience. Specifically, we focus on what capacities urban actors draw on to create sustainability and resilience and how different definitions of these concepts intersect, complement, or contradict each other. We then examine the implications of those intersections and differences in the efforts by urban actors to enhance the capacity to change unsustainable trajectories and transform themselves, their communities, and their cities toward sustainable and resilient relationships with the environment.

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“…In this paper we examine the role of community-based organisations (CBOs) in the environmental policy regime of Philadelphia, which like other American cities has over the past decade incorporated environment-and sustainability-related provisions into various policy areas, including land-use planning and zoning, building codes, and property and vehicle fleet management (Roseland 1992, Portney 2002, Patton 2009, Saha 2009, Zeemering 2009, Finn and McCormick 2011, Dilworth and Stokes 2012.…”

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