Planning strategies for dealing with population decline: Experiences from the Netherlands

Beunen, Raoul; Meijer, Marlies; Vries, J.R. de

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104107

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“…As for the young people, the European Union, strongly from the beginning of the 2010s decade [33], has promoted the young people involvement into public decisions as a key aspect for building cities with the aim at ensuring that they have a say in the democratic processes that shape Europe's future. Our findings show that SCs with a high proportion of older population are used to undertake formal strategic planning processes, which is a novelty result of this research, because it is not linked to the highly education level of this section of the population [34] as it could be expected. Indeed, findings of our paper indicate that SCs with a high proportion of highly educated population seem to undertake informal strategic planning process.…”

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Identifying Strategic Planning Patterns of Smart Initiatives. An Empirical Research in Spanish Smart Cities

Bolívar¹,

Muñoz²,

Muñoz³

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The Smart Cities' projects favor the improvement and efficiency in public services, as well as the dis-closure and access more information, offering extraordinary opportunities for cities to spark a new wave of wealth creation. However, despite the relevance and complexity of designing strategic planning for smart city development, it continues to be ignored. This research contributes to prior research through the analysis of the demographical and citizens profile of SCs, identifying key patterns in the strategic planning processes of the smart initiatives in city governments in order to ensure the success of SCs initiative implementation. To achieve this aim, this paper has sought to analyze strategic planning process in a number of Spanish SCs under the microscope examining a total of 1,635 smart initiatives with the aim at identifying patterns in the strategic planning design. Findings show that smaller-size cities with a higher proportion of older people usually perform formal strategic planning processes.

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confidence: 66%

Identifying Strategic Planning Patterns of Smart Initiatives. An Empirical Research in Spanish Smart Cities

Bolívar¹,

Muñoz²,

Muñoz³

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…As of 2021, the country's population is steadily growing, and government policies are focused on facilitating this growth. Nevertheless, some border areas of the country have been experiencing population decline for some years; this has led to various policy and planning efforts that have been subject to investigation [47,48]. The researched examples of shrinking cities in The Netherlands are usually part of a wider area that is losing its population.…”

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Narratives of Crisis: How Framing Urban Shrinkage and Depopulation Shapes Policy and Planning Responses in Spain, Germany and The Netherlands

Ivanov

2021

Sustainability

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Academic research on urban shrinkage and depopulation has advanced significantly in recent years, mostly by attributing causality between the reasons and consequences of shrinkage in the positivist tradition of planning research. This paper critically analyzes shrinkage and depopulation as an issue of planning and policymaking in a broader institutional context. By applying a qualitative interpretive policy analysis methodology to planning and policy narratives from Spain, Germany and The Netherlands, this article highlights and scrutinizes how policymakers and planners have framed shrinkage, and how this framing has justified some of the selected planning and policy approaches. It is concluded that framing shrinkage in practice may only partially encompass the scientific definitions. It is also concluded that framing shrinkage and depopulation as a crisis may be determined by locally and temporally important issues as well as differences in planning cultures, which in practice may distance the understanding of the phenomenon from the scientific definitions. Debates on shrinkage conceptualization and the development of new planning concepts can become more applicable in practice by incorporating insights from qualitative investigations. This can bring them closer to planning practice and embed them in a wider planning system context, so as to produce more applicable and contextually sensitive proposals for addressing shrinkage.

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“…Studies about the viability of remote towns emphasise inequalities between remote towns and regional centres. The trend toward increasing inequality between rural and regional locations is a global phenomenon [64][65][66] . Peripheralization describes a process by which rural communities have environmental harms imposed on them by urban communities, and how such processes create unfair economic and geographic conditions alongside environmental and cultural inequalities 67 .…”

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Decarbonization, population disruption and resource inventories in the global energy transition

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We develop a novel approach to analysing decarbonisation strategies by linking global resource inventories with demographic systems. Our ‘mine-town systems’ approach establishes an empirical basis for examining the spatial extent of the transition and demographic effects of changing energy systems. The research highlights an urgent need for targeted macro-level planning as global markets see a decline in thermal coal and a ramp up of other mining commodities. Our findings suggest that ramping up energy transition metals (ETM) could be more disruptive to demographic systems than ramping down coal. The data shows asymmetry in the distribution of risks: mine-town systems within the United States are most sensitive to coal phase-out, while systems in Australia and Canada are most sensitive to ETM phase-in. A complete phase-out of coal could disrupt demographic systems with a minimum of 33.5 million people, and another 115.7 million people if all available ETM projects enter production.

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Planning strategies for dealing with population decline: Experiences from the Netherlands

Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

Identifying Strategic Planning Patterns of Smart Initiatives. An Empirical Research in Spanish Smart Cities

Identifying Strategic Planning Patterns of Smart Initiatives. An Empirical Research in Spanish Smart Cities

Narratives of Crisis: How Framing Urban Shrinkage and Depopulation Shapes Policy and Planning Responses in Spain, Germany and The Netherlands

Decarbonization, population disruption and resource inventories in the global energy transition

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