Micro-comprehensive planning in Baltic Sea urban local areas

Berg, Per; Eriksson, Tuula; Granvik, Madeleine

doi:10.1680/ensu.2010.163.4.219

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“…However, the approach needs to be refined in several ways. Firstly, since application of the indicator-based approach emphasizes the local context of each urban renewal project (Williams & Dair, 2007;Berg et al, 2010), more cases should be studied in order to develop indicators according to local characteristics.…”

Section: Evaluation Of Sustainable Urban Renewalmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

Zheng

Shen

Wang

2014

Habitat International

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Urban renewal and sustainable development are two popular issues in both policy agenda and academia. Although their importance has been increasingly recognized, an integrated review covering sustainability, planning, and urban renewal has yet to be produced. Based on 81 journal papers, this paper presents a critical review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal over the period 1990 to 2012. The review focuses on the planning sub-system and the social sub-system of urban renewal in terms of the evaluation of sustainability. The complexity of achieving sustainable urban renewal is emphasized and discussed.To better clarify the mechanism behind the urban renewal process and improve urban sustainability, recommendations of future research directions are also provided.

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Section: Evaluation Of Sustainable Urban Renewalmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

Zheng

Shen

Wang

2014

Habitat International

348

191

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“…Localisation means to increase the geographic proximity of production, processing and consumption. Closer food loops means to focus on smaller scales of food systems, such as regions and local areas, rather than global food systems [16,18,19,22,23,35]. Scholars consider this approach as food systems where social, ecological relations are embedded to a greater extent when compared with industrialised global food systems [36][37][38][39].…”

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Trends in Agricultural Land in EU Countries of the Baltic Sea Region from the Perspective of Resilience and Food Security

Ambros

Granvik

2020

Sustainability

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Agricultural land is crucial for the production of food and is, thereby, directly connected to food security. Agriculture is threatened by a multitude of hazards, such as climate change, peak oil, peak soil and peak phosphorus. These hazards call for a more resilient food system that can deliver food security for the global population in the future. In this paper, we analyse the Baltic Sea region’s ten European Union (EU) member states, investigating which trends are to be found in statistics between 2005 to 2016 on the development of agricultural land. In our paper, we analyse these trends of agricultural land by looking at three categories of data: (1) utilised agricultural area, (2) number of farms and (3) agricultural labour input. The results showed a trend that agricultural land is increasingly dominated by large farms, whilst over 1 million predominantly small farms have disappeared, and agricultural-labour input has dropped by more than 26%. These trends point towards a mechanisation of production, where larger and less labour-intensive farms take over production. This could partly be due to the EU common agricultural policy, which tends to favour large farms over small. Further, we argue for the importance of farm-size diversity, and about the dangers to food security that a system that is dominated by large farms possesses. Lastly, we conclude that the concept of resilience needs to be better included in policy development and food-system planning, and that more research needs to be done, analysing how existing agricultural policies impact the parameters studied in this paper.

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“…According to Liu et al [9], building characteristics, location characteristics, neighborhood characteristics, economic variables, and political variables are the key determinants of building demolition with respect to urban renewal in China. Moreover, there are a number of studies which focus on the assessment of sustainable urban renewal at the local or site-based level [40][41][42]. Indicators related to the key characteristics of local development that have been identified, including building location, real estate market, land use, transportation and mobility, population, and the economy.…”

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Demolition of Existing Buildings in Urban Renewal Projects: A Decision Support System in the China Context

Shen

Liu

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Much of the rapid urbanization of China’s cities has occurred at the expense of the existing urban fabric. Across the nation, whole city blocks have been replaced with new structures, requiring large numbers of buildings to be demolished while still serviceable. This curtailed lifespan of existing buildings not only comes with an economic cost, but results in loss of urban culture, wastes resources, degrades the environment, exacerbates pollution, and inflames social conflict and instability. For the purpose of evaluating the merits of building demolition, this study develops a decision support system (DSS) for building demolition in the China context from the perspective of sustainable urban renewal. The indicators of this system cover economic, social, environmental, and institutional aspects of sustainable development. Meanwhile, both the individual characteristics of buildings and the external or extrinsic indicators at the neighborhood, local, or city level are taken into account. Based on exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), 24 critical indicators containing qualitative and quantitative factors are identified. These indicators are classified into six parameters: (1) service performance; (2) economic impact; (3) social identity; (4) local development; (5) building location; and (6) building safety. Empirical results reveal considerations of local development to be of greatest significance with the value of standardized factor loading standing at 0.911, followed by service performance (loading = 0.870) and building location (loading = 0.863), with social identity (loading = 0.236) ranking substantially lower. The findings contribute to the practice of urban renewal and, in particular, provide practical guidance to the building demolition decision-making process.

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Micro-comprehensive planning in Baltic Sea urban local areas

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

A review of recent studies on sustainable urban renewal

Trends in Agricultural Land in EU Countries of the Baltic Sea Region from the Perspective of Resilience and Food Security

Demolition of Existing Buildings in Urban Renewal Projects: A Decision Support System in the China Context

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