From Green Belts to Green Infrastructure

Amati, Marco; Taylor, Laura E.

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“…These studies have focused on urban areas as well as on publicly owned open green spaces. This limitation is to a certain extent surprising, as green belts and regional parks are widely used planning concepts (Kühn, 2003;Amati & Taylor, 2010) and have traditionally been composed by both public and private areas. Ibes (2015, p. 123), criticizes the fact that 'static, generic park models and standardized people-parkland ratios do not always result in socially and ecologically functional urban parks' .…”

Section: The Role Of Open Spaces For a Sustainable Development Of Tibmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Sustainable Territories-in-Between: A Multidimensional Typology of Open Spaces in Europe

Wandl

Rooij

Rocco

2016

Planning Practice & Research

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To improve the ecosystem service provided by open spaces in dispersed urban areas is a key challenge for sustainable spatial development in Europe. The typology presented in this article illustrates the different potentials that open spaces in territories-in-between have across 10 cases in Europe. Unlike other typologies, neither function nor form is used for the classification, but the potential interaction of open spaces with social, technical and ecological networks. Therefore, the typology informs regional spatial planning and design about the potential ecosystem services in networked urban regions. Thereby the importance of territories-in-between, which are often neglected by mainstream spatial planning and design, for sustainable development is highlighted.

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Section: The Role Of Open Spaces For a Sustainable Development Of Tibmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Sustainable Territories-in-Between: A Multidimensional Typology of Open Spaces in Europe

Wandl

Rooij

Rocco

2016

Planning Practice & Research

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“…This may be manifested in policy discussion wherein reference is made to GI as "ecological networks" 2 and grounded in landscape ecology (Jongman and Pungetti, 2004;Opdam, 2002;Opdam et al, 2006), recreation-focused "greenway networks" (Fábos, 2004;Little, 1990), or varying combinations of these (Walmsley, 2006 climate change adaptation functions (Ahern, 2007;Gill et al, 2007;Gill et al, 2009;Handley et al, 2007) and/or urban growth management (Amati and Taylor, 2010;Thomas and Littlewood, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such a turn to accentuating the multifunctional potential of green spaces in seeking their conservation is also evident in Ireland's closest neighbour, the United Kingdom. For example, Kambites and Owen (2006) and Amati and Taylor (2010) describe the multifunctional and society servicing potential of GI, with Mell surmising that the GI concept conceives "connective matrices of greenspaces" that provide "a number of complementary benefits for ecological, economic and social spheres…increasingly viewed as [a] concept that both planners and practitioners can draw on" (2008,69). Other authors identify emerging arguments in England for a departure from traditional green belt policy and a move towards a more multifunctional approach to peri-urban green space planning as a means to realise the potential services provided by such areas for urban residents (Thomas and Littlewood, 2010;Wilson and Hughes, 2011).…”

Section: Gi As Ecological Modernisation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here, the term GI has been advanced under various readings in Northern Irish (DoE(NI), 2013), Welsh (TEP, 2011) and English (CGIF, 2011;LCRP, 2010;PCC, 2010) planning policy and proposed statutory guidance (DCLG, 2010), as well as in non-statutory guidance by The Scottish Government (SG, 2011(SG, , 2012, and the advocacy activities of planning-focused QUANGOs (CABE, 2009;LI, 2013;NE, Local Environment (2014) Amati and Taylor (2010) noting its potential as a periurban planning mechanism to contain metropolitan growth. Perhaps the most restricted interpretation of GI in the UK centres on its understanding as a planning strategy to facilitate climate change adaptation Kazmierczak et al, 2010).…”

Section: The Ukmentioning

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Green infrastructure and planning policy: a critical assessment

Lennon

2014

Local Environment

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Advocates of the green infrastructure (GI) concept claim it offers a progressive planning approach that facilitates synergies between economic growth, environmental conservation and social development. Although widely endorsed by both planning practitioners and academics, little academic literature exists critically evaluating what GI entails or the potential implications of its institutionalisation within planning practice. This paper addresses this deficit by critically examining the interpretation and representation of the GI concept in planning policy. The paper first critically analyses international interpretations of GI. Following this, the particular attributes of GI's interpretation in the Republic of Ireland are investigated. The paper demonstrates how the emergence of GI in Ireland relates to broader debates on attempts to reconcile environmental concerns with development aspirations in planning policy. It is deduced that GI may represent an approach to planning policy formulation wherein habitat conservation initiatives are primarily designed and justified relative to the ecosystems services they are seen to provide to society. The paper also cautions Local Environment (2014) accepted but not copy-edited Mick LennonPage 2 of 46 against the risks posed by confining GI debates to the deliberations of technical specialist. The paper concludes by identifying some issues that may arise in the implementation of a GI approach and suggests ways to enhance the potential benefit of the concept's use in spatial planning.

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“…Laura Taylor's work on land use planning in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) region of Ontario provides an excellent example of the most publicly-engaged version of this form of feminist political ecology work. Taylor engages plans for regions, parks, and protected landscapes such as the GGH Greenbelt, enrolling various communities of practice in systematic scholarship about ongoing land use planning challenges, in a context where the concept of "region" has been institutionalized as both territorial and relational through "regional municipalities" and "regional growth plans", with a specific meaning of region emerging out of the relationship of urban agglomerations and affected adjacent spatial territories (Taylor 2007;Amati and Taylor 2010). Recognizing that regions are a central focus of land use planning, Taylor focuses on regional land use planning challenges along with students in academic case study courses, with practitioners engaged in planning and evaluation, as well as with policy makers and the citizen, advisory, and scientific panels she engages in this work.…”

Section: Journal Of Political Ecologymentioning

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Possible moral ecologies, the function of everyday curation, and the experience of regions

Cadieux

2016

Journal of Political Ecology

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Investigating the political ecologies of everyday engagements with environments-including material as well as policy and ideological interactions-requires consideration of the moral economy at play, as well as the political economy and social ecology. A.V. Chayanov (1966A.V. Chayanov ( /1925), E.P. Thompson (1971), and Jim Scott (1976 have provided useful ways to think about moral economy. They framed moral economy as a way of enacting understandings of just commons, subsistence entitlements, and desirable economic relations based on social struggle. This framing can be particularly useful in combination with political ecology approaches to investigate 'moral ecologies.' These are society-environment assemblages that are often more aspirational than enacted, but toward which considerable effort is expended, and whose moral and ecological dynamics are functionally linked, perhaps as best illustrated in recent attention to agroecology as a powerful mechanism for ensuring rights to food (De Schutter 2011a, 2011b. Given political ecology's focus on power relations, moral ecologies that do not exercise considerable power are often overlooked by political ecologists. However, even if particular understandings may not be highly efficacious in exercising power, they may have considerable influence on relational conceptualizations. This mismatch between habitual inattention to moral ecologies and their potential importance contributes to tensions within contemporary society-environment scholarship between structuralist and poststructuralist modes of engagement. Given the value of both modes, particularly for understanding what Peet and Watts (1993) describe as liberation ecologies (and the regional discourse formations that shape them), I argue that political ecology provides useful frameworks for documenting and analyzing the socio-ecological experience of regions-in terms not only of the functions of society and environment, but also of the performance and curation of knowledge about those functions. Keywords: moral economy, food systems, curation, critical regional studies, land use planning, participatory action research, environmental justice, integrated natural resource management science RésuméEnquêter sur les écologies politiques des interactions quotidiennes avec l'environnement -en incluant aussi bien les interactions matérielles que celles idéologiques et politiques -exige souvent un examen de l'économie morale, ainsi que de l'économie politique et l'écologie sociale, en jeu. A.V. Chayanov (1966A.V. Chayanov ( /1925), E.P. Thompson (1971), et Jim Scott (1976 nous ont fourni des moyens utiles pour penser l'économie morale. Ils ont présenté l'économie morale comme un moyen de promulguer la compréhension de relations économiques bénéfiques et ordinaires, permettant la subsistance, en se basant sur des luttes sociales. Cette définition peut être particulièrement utile lorsqu'elle est combinée avec des approches liées à l'écologie politique pour enquêter sur «les écologies morales». Ces dernières sont des...

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From Green Belts to Green Infrastructure

Cited by 104 publications

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Towards Sustainable Territories-in-Between: A Multidimensional Typology of Open Spaces in Europe

Towards Sustainable Territories-in-Between: A Multidimensional Typology of Open Spaces in Europe

Green infrastructure and planning policy: a critical assessment

Possible moral ecologies, the function of everyday curation, and the experience of regions

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