Explaining the national variation of land use: A cross-national analysis of greenbelt policy in five countries

Han, Albert Tonghoon; Go, Min Hee

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.11.035

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“…The aim of this instrument is not to prevent urban expansion or to restrict urban development, but to ensure that there are not too many urban spaces left without construction, while protecting agricultural spaces that could be of strategic importance. Likewise, UCP estimate the space requirements in order to have sufficient land supply for undertaking urban development projects [214][215][216].…”

Section: The Conservation Of Peri-urban Environments: Greenbelts and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Bueno-Suárez

Coq-Huelva

2020

Sustainability

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Urban sprawl and its economic, social, and environmental consequences are central issues for approaching more sustainable forms of life and production. This review provides a broad theoretical exploration of the main features of urban sprawl but also of sustainable urban policies in Western Europe and North America. Urban sprawl can be observed in both continents, as the search for higher standards of economic, social, and environmental sustainability is also an essential feature of urban governance in the last years. Urban sprawl has been slightly weaker in Western Europe, as its are cities generally more compact. Moreover, in Western Europe, urban sprawl has sometimes been confronted with ex-ante preventive policies. However, in North America, urban sprawl from the 1950s has been an essential element of the social ordering and, thus, of the American way of life. In both cases, urban sprawl has generated successive rounds of accumulation of built capital, which is currently managed in sustainable ways essentially through ex-post and palliative measures, that is, trying to “sustain what is unsustainable”. In other words, the idea is to make urban sprawl more sustainable but without altering its main morphological elements.

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Section: The Conservation Of Peri-urban Environments: Greenbelts and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Bueno-Suárez

Coq-Huelva

2020

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“…The effectiveness of the GB policy may depend on many factors, such as the country-specific political climate concerning more development or preservation [47], and the amount of available lands for development [14,48]. The core question in the GB policy may lie in how to maintain a balance between the demands for development and preservation of the lands [47].…”

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The Effects of Releasing Greenbelt Restrictions on Land Development in the Case of Medium-Sized Cities in Korea

Kim¹,

Hyun²,

Lee³

2019

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Many metropolitan areas around the world aim to control urban growth with a view to achieving efficiency and containing urban problems. Among many urban growth policy tools, the green belt (GB) policy is known as the most rigid and strongest. However, there has been no study on the consequences when GB restrictions are completely removed. The primary purpose of this study is to analyse the spatial effects of greenbelt removal on land development in Korea’s medium-sized cities between 2000 and 2017. To do so, we used the Landsat thematic mapper (TM) 5 satellite image (2000) and Landsat OLI TIRS 8 satellite image (2017) along with various attribute data to model the spatial effects of greenbelt removal in the cases of three medium-sized cities in Korea. The result of difference-in-difference (DID) analysis confirms that the effects of GB removal on land development vary depending on the local conditions of land development.

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“…While the academic debates on greenbelts focus on the role of non-government actors in enabling their establishment (Burton, 2016;Gopinath & Jackson, 2010), less attention is given to governance practices after the policy formation stage and to what ensures these greenbelts' long-term success. Moreover, such debates have examined the role that institutional settings play in influencing policy design and reform (Han & Go, 2019;Pond, 2009). However, these institutional approaches in the greenbelt literature rarely reflect upon the regional governance of these greenspaces.…”

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Towards smart regional growth: institutional complexities and the regional governance of Southern Ontario’s Greenbelt

Macdonald

Monstadt

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2021

Territory, Politics, Governance

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The task of developing regional greenbelts poses multidimensional challenges to policymakers. Unlike their early 20th-century predecessors, these greenspaces incorporate multiple functions including growth management, farmland and environmental protection, and increasing economic competitiveness. This regional and multifunctional approach to greenbelt management involves considerable governance complexities, as an increasing number of policy fields such as economic growth, agriculture, housing, nature conservation, different policy levels and various territorial jurisdictions become involved in policy implementation. However, institutional dimensions of contemporary greenbelt governance are hardly reflected within the literature. This is also the case for the Greater Golden Horseshoe region in Southern Ontario, Canada, where a regional Greenbelt Plan was implemented in 2005. By engaging with institutional perspectives on regional governance, we analyse how the governance of regional greenbelts and smart growth have been influenced by vertical, horizontal and territorial coordination challenges and politics at the provincial and local levels. We conclude that despite provincial government intervention in regional planning, the impact of market pressures, growth coalitions and institutional coordination problems prevent growth management policies from delivering the significant changes promised by the Ontario government.

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Explaining the national variation of land use: A cross-national analysis of greenbelt policy in five countries

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

Sustaining What Is Unsustainable: A Review of Urban Sprawl and Urban Socio-Environmental Policies in North America and Western Europe

The Effects of Releasing Greenbelt Restrictions on Land Development in the Case of Medium-Sized Cities in Korea

Towards smart regional growth: institutional complexities and the regional governance of Southern Ontario’s Greenbelt

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