Dilemmas of involvement in land management – Comparing an active (Dutch) and a passive (German) approach

The managerial turn and municipal land-use planning in Switzerland – evidence from practice

“…To be more proactive, a municipality can rely on several instruments to bring the practical supply of developable land to equal the potential supply such as that planned by land-use plans. We refer to all the means implemented by a municipality to match the real supply with the potential supply of parcels as an active land policy (Hartmann & Spit, 2015;Hengstermann & Gerber, 2015). An active land policy refers to all public decisions and actions aiming to implement politically defined spatial development goals through changes in the use, distribution and value of land (Healey & Barrett, 1985;Krabben & Jacobs, 2013;Needham & Verhage, 1998).…”

“…A growing literature of planning calls for a shift from passive planning procedures toward more active alternatives (Hartmann & Spit, 2015;Healey & Barrett, 1985;Knoepfel et al, 2012;Krabben & Jacobs, 2013;Needham & Verhage, 1998;Weber et al 2011). This shift to more "active land policy" implies for planners a need to better support the implementation of land-use plans (a method of intervention typical of Weberian bureaucracies) with other policy instruments, in particular incentives or public intervention in property rights.…”

‘Test Driving’ a Financing Instrument for Climate Adaptation: Analyzing Institutional Dilemmas using Simulation Gaming

“…The approach is largely considered unviable in the foreseeable future. It was a model that enabled municipalities to use the market to facilitate community-level investments to deliver a range of public goods (Hartmann & Spit, 2015). This practice resulted in speculative land acquisitions and development projects, which ultimately have left many municipalities burdened with substantial land holdings, financial exposure, and over-supply of houses and offices in their communities van der Krabben & Jacobs, 2013).…”

Frames and dilemmas in multifunctional projects

“…Although there are numerous studies dealing with dilemmas in literature about regional and urban planning (Bański, 2010;De Bruijne et al, 2010;Gawel and Ludwig, 2011;DiLucia et al, 2012;Banai, 2013;Savini, 2013;Davies and Msengana-Ndlela, 2014;Holman, 2014;Savini et al, 2014;Hartmann and Spit, 2015), studies on dilemmas in multifunctional projects are rare. This is surprising because the interdependencies among actors and the diversity of sectors and disciplines involved in multifunctional projects make them a breeding ground to understand dilemmatic situations.…”

“…Previous literature has studied dilemmas in different contexts such as climate change adaptation (Ko and Chang, 2012;van Buuren et al, 2013;Root et al, 2015), organization science (Schreyögg, and Sydow, 2010;D'Adderio, 2014), management studies (Storey and Salaman, 2010), land management (Hartmann and Spit, 2015), policy making (DiLucia et al, 2012), regional and urban studies (Bański, 2010;Banai, 2013;Davies and Msengana-Ndlela, 2014). Some authors have focused on understanding the need to provide flexibility and robustness to integrate water and spatial planning (Tempels and Hartmann, 2014), or the need to deal with competing demands from external environmental demands like flooding and droughts (Van den Berghe & De Sutter, 2014).…”