Evaluating the effectiveness of land use master plans in built-up land management: A case study of the Jinan Municipality, eastern China

Guo, Zelian; Hu, Yecui; Zheng, Xinqi

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104369

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“…This leads to the degradation of environmentally sensitive areas of many African city-regions, including Abuja, highlighting the need to guide urban development effectively using strategic actions such as land use planning strategies [12][13][14]. Addressing the environmental sustainability problems caused by urban expansion patterns at the regional scale is useful in this regard, especially if used to guide local and urban planning processes [3,[15][16][17]. This is, for example, recognized by the Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Law of 1992 that made provision for the higher-order plans to provide a framework for the lower-order plans [16].…”

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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

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Land

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Land use planning as strategic instruments to guide urban dynamics faces particular challenges in the Global South, including Sub-Saharan Africa, where urgent interventions are required to improve urban and environmental sustainability. This study investigated and identified key challenges of land use planning and its environmental assessments to improve the urban and environmental sustainability of city-regions. In doing so, we combined expert interviews and questionnaires with spatial analyses of urban and regional land use plans, as well as current and future urban land cover maps derived from Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing. By overlaying and contrasting land use plans and land cover maps, we investigated spatial inconsistencies between urban and regional plans and the associated urban land dynamics and used expert surveys to identify the causes of such inconsistencies. We furthermore identified and interrogated key challenges facing land use planning, including its environmental assessment procedures, and explored means for overcoming these barriers to rapid, yet environmentally sound urban growth. The results illuminated multiple inconsistencies (e.g., spatial conflicts) between urban and regional plans, most prominently stemming from conflicts in administrative boundaries and a lack of interdepartmental coordination. Key findings identified a lack of Strategic Environmental Assessment and inadequate implementation of land use plans caused by e.g., insufficient funding, lack of political will, political interference, corruption as challenges facing land use planning strategies for urban and environmental sustainability. The baseline information provided in this study is crucial to improve strategic planning and urban/environmental sustainability of city-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa and across the Global South, where land use planning faces similar challenges to address haphazard urban expansion patterns.

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Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Enoguanbhor

Gollnow

Walker

et al. 2021

Land

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“…At first, food security mainly emphasized the sufficiency of food production and supply. After that, studies in food security began to pay equal attention to the total amount of food and quality safety and to the balance of food supply and demand [ 5 , 6 ]. In recent years, scholars have focused on various food security issues, from simple quantitative security to nutrition security, life security, and ecological security.…”

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“…Therefore, food security not only refers to the problem of adequate food supply but also involves a balanced regional distribution and nutrition as well as stable eating habits. In 2012, the FAO updated the definition of food security, completing the development from only meeting survival needs to meeting positive and healthy living and food preferences [ 6 ]. The concept of food security from the initial emphasis on “food supply” to the later “focus on family and individual food acquisition power” indicates the extension from the macro overall to the micro individuals.…”

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Food Security Review Based on Bibliometrics from 1991 to 2021

Song

2022

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Food security is related to human wellbeing and sustainable development and an important guarantee for world peace. In the context of global climate change, increased food demand, resource depletion, conflicts, and frequent public health emergencies, food security is widely seen as one of the top challenges. Food security research has obvious interdisciplinary characteristics, involving a wide range of fields. We analyzed the literature on food security in the Web of Science core collection from 1991 to 2021, using bibliometric methods with the aid of the Biblioshiny software package. By collecting, screening, analyzing, and visually expressing the literature data, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) In the past 30 years, the annual number of publications on food security increased. The period can be divided into three stages: 1991–2003 as the budding period, 2004–2012 as the development period, and 2013–2020 as the high-yield and active period. The top three journals discussing food security issues are Food Security, Sustainability, and Food Policy, and these journals focus on the publication of comprehensive views from interdisciplinary perspectives. (2) Studies on food security cover 138 countries or regions. The top three countries in terms of the number of published articles are the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. Among the top 20 countries in terms of the number of published articles, European countries are highlighted. (3) Climate change, food security, agriculture, policy, and management are the other high-frequency keywords in the field of food security; climate change occurred 321 times. The word sub-Saharan Africa also occurred more frequently, indicating that food security in sub-Saharan Africa has attracted wide attention. (4) The food security theme mapping clearly showed the research status and future development trends of various topics in the field. Currently, food production, climate change, and sustainable development are the most popular themes. Research on food sovereignty, ecological agriculture, child obesity, and other aspects is an emerging field. (5) We predict that in the future, the field of food security may focus on the expansion and improvement of the food security evaluation system, the balance between sustainable development and food security goals, the improvement of agricultural production and management efficiency, and the research on government policies and strategies. Our results provide a reference for grasping the current situation, key research direction, and development trend in the field of food security.

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“…The major overlapping areas of construction land and biodiversity-loss species are in Yunnan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Hebei, Anhui, Hunan, and Heilongjiang provinces. Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Guangdong (48)(49)(50) (table S2) are China's major industrial provinces. Heilongjiang is a traditional heavy industrial base, and recently, it has been restructuring the old industries.…”

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Spatial variation in biodiversity loss across China under multiple environmental stressors

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Biodiversity is essential for the maintenance of ecosystem health and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the drivers of biodiversity loss and the spatial variation in their impacts are poorly understood. Here, we explore the spatial-temporal distributions of threatened and declining (“biodiversity-loss”) species and find that these species are affected by multiple stressors, with climate and human activities being the fundamental shaping forces. There has been large spatial variation in the distribution of threatened species over China’s provinces, with the biodiversity of Gansu, Guangdong, Hainan, and Shaanxi provinces severely reduced. With increasing urbanization and industrialization, the expansion of construction and worsening pollution has led to habitat retreat or degradation, and high proportions of amphibians, mammals, and reptiles are threatened. Because distributions of species and stressors vary widely across different climate zones and geographical areas, specific policies and measures are needed for preventing biodiversity loss in different regions.

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Evaluating the effectiveness of land use master plans in built-up land management: A case study of the Jinan Municipality, eastern China

Cited by 26 publications

References 23 publications

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Key Challenges for Land Use Planning and Its Environmental Assessments in the Abuja City-Region, Nigeria

Food Security Review Based on Bibliometrics from 1991 to 2021

Spatial variation in biodiversity loss across China under multiple environmental stressors

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