What makes long-term perspectives endure? Lessons from Dutch nature conservation

Beunen, Raoul; Lata, Iulian Barba

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2020.102679

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“…In the UOGD context, residents formed coalitions to collectively negotiate better lease terms from oil and gas operators or joined groups opposing or seeking stricter controls on UOGD. Embedding boom‐bust management strategies within broader policy and community initiatives (e.g., neighborhood revitalization or community redevelopment efforts) may generate positive feedbacks that enable transformative change (Beunen & Lata, 2021). Implementing these activities can be challenging given the weakening of social ties caused by population fluxes and rapid community changes.…”

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Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Arnold

Klasic

Schomburg

et al. 2022

Review of Policy Research

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Scholarship on boom-busts cycles in resource extraction often assumes that affected resource-rich communities are at best reactive, at worst helpless, in the face of the large, exogenous shocks this cycle visits upon them. Researchers infrequently examine what communitiesthemselves can do to improve their economic prospects and residents' quality of life amidst booms and busts. In this review paper, we identify and synthesize work scattered across disparate academic and gray literature-in planning, law, community economic development, rural sociology, economics, and political science, among others-to holistically assess what we know about how communities can use local policymaking to manage impacts of booms and busts associated with unconventional oil and gas drilling (UOGD), often called "fracking." We highlight examples of communities tackling this task using vertical and horizontal governance strategies and distill expert recommendations for how communities can build boom-bust resiliency generally and in key areas impacted by UOGD.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Arnold

Klasic

Schomburg

et al. 2022

Review of Policy Research

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“…The succinctness of the concept, moreover, allowed for continuous adaptation of other aspects of the strategy. Koskimaa et al (2021) link nicely to the insights offered by Beunen & Barba Lata (2021).…”

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confidence: 58%

Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance

Assche

Verschraegen

Gruezmacher

2021

Futures

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“…For strategic plans to transform the spatial condition of a territory, their narratives must be persuasive in the broader society, often by borrowing on and engaging with already existing narratives (Van Assche et al 2021). Furthermore, long-term perspectives can act as powerful coordination tools for policy processes (Beunen and Lata 2021).…”

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Strategic spatial planning in emerging land-use frontiers: evidence from Mozambique

Oliveira¹,

Meyfroidt²

2022

E&S

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Land-use frontiers are territories with abundant land for agriculture and forestry, availability of natural resources relative to labor or capital and predisposed to rapid land-use change, often driven by large-scale land investments and capitalized actors, producing commodities for distal markets. Strategic spatial planning (SSP) represents a consolidated long-term governance practice across high-and low-income countries. One of the objectives of SSP processes is to articulate a more coherent and future-oriented spatial logic for the sustainability of land-use patterns and typologies, natural-resources protection, and investments. SSP may thus constitute a useful approach in addressing some of the challenges affecting land governance in frontier settings; to date, its potential contribution to land-use frontiers lacks explicit exploration. In this paper, we examine how SSP can play a role in governing land-use frontiers through a case-study analysis of Mozambique as an emerging frontier, located on the southeast coast of Africa. We gathered empirical evidence by interviewing experts involved in resource management, territorial planning, and development in the country. The theoretical spine of the paper builds on the literature focusing on land-use challenges and SSP. We show that emerging land-use frontiers face several challenges, such as transnational land deals and the intensification of commercial plantations. Interview data show that several structural factors are hindering the establishment of a long-term territorial development strategy. These are, among others, the short-termism of political cycles and the absence of a long-term strategic vision. Our analysis reveals that SSP processes could contribute to addressing land-use challenges in frontier contexts, such as poverty traps and land degradation spirals, should various local and distant actors join forces and marry interests. We conclude by presenting a systematic rationale, explaining how SSP could play a role in governing land-use frontiers, with a view to promoting the well-being and sustainability of rural communities.

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What makes long-term perspectives endure? Lessons from Dutch nature conservation

Cited by 7 publications

References 50 publications

Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Strategy for the long term: Pressures, counter-pressures and mechanisms in governance

Strategic spatial planning in emerging land-use frontiers: evidence from Mozambique

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