Public policies for managing urban growth and protecting open space: policy instruments and lessons learned in the United States

Βengston, David Ν.; Fletcher, Jennifer O.; Nelson, Kristen C.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2003.08.007

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“…Another growing trend in urban forest enhancement is incentive-based programs that offer financial or non-financial motivation for residents, businesses, and organizations to take part in urban forest stewardship activities (e.g., free-tree programs) with the long-term goal of changing citizen behaviours and fostering stewardship [119,120]. Lastly, many cities are adopting comprehensive and strategic urban forest management plans [28].…”

Section: Enhancing Urban Forests For City Sustainabilitymentioning

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Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

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Abstract:We argue that a healthy urban forest contributes immensely to the sustainability of cities. The argument is based on a comprehensive array of values elicited from Canadians in several cities. To begin, we define the urban forest as inclusive of all the trees in the city and thus representing the predominant contributor to a city's green infrastructure. Then we enumerate and explain the broad diversity of ways in which urban people value trees in the city. We, thus, show the myriad pathways by which trees contribute positively to any city's social, economic, and ecological sustainability. Following a short summary of the ways in which trees may detract from people's quality of life, we present promising management directions for urban-forest improvement, as we understand the situation in Canada. We conclude that all cities can enhance their sustainability by improving the urban forest.

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Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

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“…In many cases, greenbelts have proved to be effective in the containment of sprawl (Bengston and Youn, 2006). However, most of those policy strategies -when applied -have revealed only partly effective in northern Mediterranean cities because of the lack of explicit goals (Bengston et al, 2004;Koomen et al, 2008;Salvati et al, 2013). Nevertheless their application demonstrates the importance of strategies considering a 'building zone' opposed to a rural area inside urban municipalities (Gennaio et al, 2009).…”

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Land-Use Structure and Urbanization-Driven Land Fragmentation: Revisiting the Monocentric Model in a Sprawling Region

Ranalli¹,

Salvati²

2015

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“…On the other hand, and usually from a different angle, there are instruments for controlling urban development, including basic regulatory tools of comprehensive plans, zoning schemes and subdivision regulations, which may be implemented in a variety of often overlapping scales and jurisdictions. These are often infl uenced by various factors such as coordination, effective implementation, landowner involvement, land prices, housing affordability (Bengston et al, 2004) or planning taxes (Razin, 1998), hindering a full evaluation of their effectiveness. Amezaga and Santamaria (2000) argue that part of the failure in conserving natural areas is 'rooted in a fragmented view of resources management, which results in spatial mosaics where highly protected "natural" reserves are surrounded by semi-natural or intensively used "non-natural" territory'.…”

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Nature conservation and urban development control in the Portuguese planning system: a new impetus against old praxis?

Fidélis

Sumares

2008

Eur. Env.

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Natura 2000 areas bring a new incentive to assess the performance of land-use planning in protecting environmental values from the impacts of development pressures. In the last decades, urban growth and consequent environmental impacts on natural areas have been a major concern for the Portuguese land-use planning system. Sprawl around sensitive areas has been revealed to be a persistent phenomenon in spite of the increasing challenges underlying land-use plans. This article critically analyses the content of three main documents recently adopted by the Portuguese governmentthe 'National Strategy for Sustainable Development', the 'National Policy Programme for Spatial Planning' and the 'Sector Plan for Natura 2000' -seeking prospects to innovate future plans at lower levels in order to prevent additional pressures on natural areas. First, the article reviews the recent theoretical debate on planning for the protection of natural areas. Results evidenced by recent EU evaluation reports are used to propose a set of guidelines to evaluate planning guidance at national level. Second, it critically analyses the three planning documents, bearing in mind the main features of the planning system and the proposed guidelines. The article is concluded with a discussion of their potential, exploring whether they bring a new impetus to the role of land-use planning against an outdated and persistent praxis, or whether, on the contrary, further efforts to strengthen planning guidance remain to be formulated.

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Public policies for managing urban growth and protecting open space: policy instruments and lessons learned in the United States

Cited by 475 publications

References 27 publications

Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

Land-Use Structure and Urbanization-Driven Land Fragmentation: Revisiting the Monocentric Model in a Sprawling Region

Nature conservation and urban development control in the Portuguese planning system: a new impetus against old praxis?

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