Spatial Absorbency Assessment for Sustainable Land Development

Broża, Noemi; Birnbaum, Karolina; Castro, David García; Kazak, Jan

doi:10.7494/geom.2020.14.2.5

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“…Poland's current spatial planning documents and tools still require improvement in order to guarantee sustainable development [62]. As recommended by Badach and Raszeja [63], the inclusion of selected landscape and greenspace indicators into the existing spatial planning instruments is necessary in order to develop a sustainable urban planning approach.…”

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Using Composition to Assess and Enhance Visual Values in Landscapes

Gyurkovich

Pieczara

2021

Sustainability

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(1) The research presented in this paper aims to study the value attributed to a landscape composition’s visual elements and their overall influence on how they are perceived. The historical and contemporary visual approaches to a landscape constitute its background, for example, geographical, aesthetic, iconographic, phenomenological. (2) The visual assessment method elaborated by the Polish school of landscape architecture is used in the first part of this study. It is built of three steps with corresponding tools: landscape inventory, composition analysis, and evaluation. Moreover, an expert survey is used to complete the study. The work’s novelty is completing the visual approach with an expert inquiry, which aims to solve the subjectivity issue, an inherent visual evaluation controversy. The study area comprises urban and suburban locations from the agglomeration of Poznań, Poland. (3) The research results indicate the significant contribution of three visual elements to the positive assessment of landscape values: greenery, built heritage, and water. The importance of the composition is also demonstrated. (4) The main research findings show that visual evaluation tools should be implemented as part of sustainable spatial planning. Their implementation permits identifying the essential positive value in the existing landscape and creating guidelines for its preservation or enhancement. The article’s significance is the effect of proposing real and possible guidelines to improve the spatial planning policy, making landscape management more sustainable.

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Using Composition to Assess and Enhance Visual Values in Landscapes

Gyurkovich

Pieczara

2021

Sustainability

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“…Going beyond the obtained test results, it could be considered how the application of the proposed solution may influence stability of socio-economic system connected with real estates by increasing transparency on housing market (Cellmer & Trojanek, 2019). The issue of proper control of real estate development process is especially important taking into account pressure of both local (Źróbek, et al, 2014) and national (Stacherzak, et al, 2019) administration systems in order to redevelop land, reflected also in imbalance between supply and demand on real estates (Foryś & Kazak, 2019;Broża, et al, 2020). High level of interest in proceeding redevelopment activity (Bieda, 2017) may affect inaccurate assessment of real estate development and created value (Kazak, et al, 2019;Krajewska & Pawłowski, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Value-Based Management for Real Estate Developers’ Activities

Kowalski

Kazak

2020

Real Estate Management and Valuation

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Real estate development investments are characterized by a high value of projects, which in the event of irregularities in their implementation may result in significant losses for the economy. The lack of tools enabling ongoing control of real estate developers may result in disruptions in the operation of business entities on the real estate market, affecting the proper functioning of many stakeholders. The article proposes a method of measuring value for real estate companies. Accounting principles that regulate financial statements specify that they cannot be used directly to measure the value of a developer. The article proposes examples of corrections to financial statements supporting value measurement. When calculating value management measures, (i) adjustments excluding the impact of asset valuations, (ii) adjustments of settlement negative EVA of the investment phase, (iii) adjustments of advance payment of NPV of the project, and (iv) adjustments of excluding the impact of interest on foreign capital should be made. Examples of using these adjustments in a short-term housing project and a long-term commercial project were presented. The impact of the proposed adjustments on the comparison of formal financial statements and value measures for a large developer listed on the WSE was also discussed.

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“…. through land development (Stula and Kazak, 2019;Broza et al, 2020) to food system assessments (Heinemann et al, 2010). The application of DSS for food and agriculture have been introduced in many journals and books presenting various applications from crop production, through water management, ending with machinery management (Heinemann et al, 2010).…”

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A participatory tool for assessing land footprint in city-region food systems—A case study from Metropolitan Copenhagen

Arciniegas¹,

Wascher²,

Eyre³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of current food systems to feed populations around the world. Particularly in urban centers, consumers have been confronted with this vulnerability, highlighting reliance on just-in-time logistics, imports and distant primary production. Urban food demand, regional food supply, land use change, and transport strategies are considered key factors for reestablishing resilient landscapes as part of a sustainable food system. Improving the sustainability of food systems in such circumstances entails working on the interrelations between food supply and demand, rural and urban food commodity production sites, and groups of involved actors and consumers. Of special significance is the agricultural land in close proximity to urban centers. Calling for more holistic approaches in the sense of inclusiveness, food security, citizen involvement and ecological principles, this article describes the use of a new decision support tool, the Metropolitan Foodscape Planner (MFP). The MFP features up-to-date European datasets to assess the potential of current agricultural land use to provide food resources (with special attention to both plant- and animal-based products) and meet the demand of city dwellers, and help to empower citizens, innovators, companies, public authorities and other stakeholders of regional food systems to build a more regionalized food supply network. The tool was tested in the context of the food system of the Copenhagen City Region in two collaborative workshops, namely one workshop with stakeholders of the Copenhagen City Region representing food consultancies, local planning authorities and researchers, and one in-person workshop masterclass with MSc students from the University of Copenhagen. Workshop participants used the tool to learn about the impacts of the current food system at the regional and international level with regard to the demand-supply paradigm of city-regions. The ultimate goal was to develop a participatory mapping exercise and test three food system scenarios for a more regionalized and sustainable food system and, therefore, with increased resilience to crises. Results from this implementation also demonstrated the potential of the tool to identify food production sites at local level that are potentially able to feed the city region in a more sustainable, nutritious and way.

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Spatial Absorbency Assessment for Sustainable Land Development

Cited by 4 publications

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Using Composition to Assess and Enhance Visual Values in Landscapes

Using Composition to Assess and Enhance Visual Values in Landscapes

Value-Based Management for Real Estate Developers’ Activities

A participatory tool for assessing land footprint in city-region food systems—A case study from Metropolitan Copenhagen

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